Our Team
This team member is going to start a cookie decorating side business.
Who is Montana?
The only country artist to have a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for six straight decades.
Who is Dolly Parton?
It is illegal to whisper in someone's ear while they are moose hunting
What is Alaska?
Sung during the 7th inning stretch in baseball
What is Take Me Out to the Ballgame?
Fish species that anemones have a symbiotic relationship with
What are clownfish?
This team member used to work in a psych ward with criminals found legally insane.
Who is Courtney?
Famous composer who sold more CDs than Beyonce in 2016
Who is Mozart?
It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church
What is Alabama?
Height of the NBA basketball hoop
Deepest known point in the ocean
What is Challenger Deep?
(Dr. Ying-Tsong Lin is the 12th person in history, the first person of Asian descent and the first WHOI scientist to visit the ocean's deepest seafloor in person!)
This team member's family owns multiple cranberry bogs
Who is Karen?
The color of Elvis Presley's hair prior to turning 15 years old
What is blonde?
If an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.
What is Florida?
Name of the NBA All-Star Game MVP trophy
What is Kobe Bryant Trophy?
This deep-sea structure is thought to provide clues to early life on Earth
What are hydrothermal vents?
(These structures were discovered by a team led by Dr. Robert Ballard in 1977!)
This team member's grandma taught them how to forage for mushrooms and learned their identifications.
Who is Valentina?
Oldest known instrument which is made from bird bone and mammoth ivory, over 35,000 years old
What is a flute?
It is illegal to frighten a pigeon
What is Massachusetts?
Holds the record for most assists in a single NHL season
Wayne Gretzky (163 assists)
Three defense mechanisms octopuses use
What are ink expulsion, jet propulsion, and camouflage?
This team member spent most weekends going for rides in the plane that their dad and grandfather built and flew when they were young.
Who is Shawna?
The first and only band to have performed on all seven continents in the world after appearing in Antarctica in 2013
Who is Metallica?
It is illegal to sleep on top of a refrigerator outdoors
What is Pennsylvania?
NFL team that has a logo on only one side of its helmet
Deep-sea explorer that was the first woman to walk on the ocean floor
Who is Dr. Sylvia Earle?
(She was also recognized with a Centennial Medal by WHOI at the Campaign Launch event!)