Read of Alice Alpert, graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, who studies what the chemistry of coral skeletons can tell us about the ocean in the past. This former Brown undergrad had the honor and challenge of being the muse for an Antarctic poet, Katharine Coles. See http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/alpertandpoet.
read more A scientist and poet in Antarctica – perspective from a Brown alum