<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000099'><b>From: </b>"Diana Kenney" <dkenney@mbl.edu><br><br><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;" id="internal-source-marker_0.7802335968632548">Want a good answer
for your aunt when she asks you, “Now what do you do with that
microscope all day?”</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Join
the <a href="http://www.whoi.edu/website/big/" target="_blank">Broader Impacts Group</a> and try to describe your research using
only the 1,000 most common words in English (warning: ocean is not
one of them). It’s fun and surprisingly challenging! Try
describing paleomagnetism without “magnet" or hydrology without
“river.” The beauty of this exercise is that as you develop an
answer to your aunt, you will also see the essence of your work
and even gain insights into it. So come to the Clark student
center on WHOI's Quissett Campus from 12-1pm on Thursday, <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT745">February 14,</span> to
have some fun and cut down on some syllables.</span><br><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Light
refreshments will be served.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Check
out the</span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT746"><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/01/27/science-in-ten-hundred-words-the-up-goer-five-challenge/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">website</span></a></span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
that inspired this activity</span>.<br><br>For more information, please contact: <br><pre class="moz-signature">Alice Alpert
Graduate student, Marine Geology and Geophysics
MIT/WHOI Joint Graduate Program<br><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1729">aalpert@mit.edu</span><br><br></pre><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>