Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

…is the home of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Marine Biological Laboratory. In November 1620, before landing at Plymouth, the Pilgrims sheltered at what is now Provincetown, where they signed the Mayflower Compact. The main Indian inhabitants were the Nausets and Wampanoags. Mashpee is the

…the ketch Atlantis of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

…he was assigned to the Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Oceanographic Research Institution, where he became a full-time marine scientist in 1974 after completing doctoral degrees in marine geology and geophysics at the University of Rhode Island. In the early 1970s Ballard helped develop Alvin, a three-person submersible equipped with a mechanical…

…short visiting professorship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts from 1970 to 1972, Hasselmann earned the rank of full professor for theoretical geophysics and served as managing director at the university’s Institute of Geophysics until 1975, when he became the founding director for the Max Planck Institute for…

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), an offshoot of the laboratory established in 1930, is maintained by a permanent staff of more than 850. WHOI has supported hundreds of research projects and activities, including studies of marine life, the chemical composition of oceans, global climate changes,…

…over 40 institutions, including the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.