In an exciting new partnership, Cape Abilities has teamed up with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to create jobs for people with disabilities and address one of today’s most pressing scientific issues.
As part of a National Science Foundation grant, a group of Cape Abilities participants are working in a lab at the Institution’s Woods Hole campus creating electrodes that are a key component of Magnetotelluric (MT) instruments used to collect data that image deep into the earth. The instruments are likely to be used off the Pacific northwest coast of the United States, where geologic conditions are very similar to the area in Japan that triggered the recent catastrophic earthquake.
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