Letters to the editor Oct 15, 2009
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Get on board, Chamber. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
A new look beneath the waves: Ocean Observatories Initiative gets underway Oct 7, 2009
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and its partners, Oregon State University and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, are responsible for coastal and global moorings and their associated autonomous vehicles. Raytheon will also serve as a WHOI partner and provide project management and systems engineering support. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Experts size up Florida's tsunami risks Oct 2, 2009
Two organizations are seeking money for projects to monitor volcanic activity and stability on La Palma, including the Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Woods Hole scientists hope to install seismometers, cameras and other instruments to monitor any possible landslides, said Jian Lin, a senior scientist in the institution's geology and geophysics department. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Big Squid Washing up on Ore. Beach Sep 24, 2009
colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts zigzagged between majestic icebergs in the Sermilik fjord last month in search of proof that waters from warmer latitudes, or subtropical waters, are flushing through this remote and frigid region. They found it. (CBS News)
Newly Found Worm Sheds Glowing Green Parts Aug 22, 2009
The research was funded by the Scripps Institution, University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the National Geographic Society. . (CBS News)
New worm species found: The Green Bomber Aug 21, 2009
The research was funded by the Scripps Institution, University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the National Geographic Society. From the Friday, August 21, 2009 edition of the Augusta Chronicle Reader Comments Note: Comments are not edited and don't represent the views of The Augusta Chronicle. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Scientists: New species of worms release 'bombs' Aug 21, 2009
The research was funded by the Scripps Institution, University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the National Geographic Society. On the Net. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Bioluminescent 'Green Bombers' From The Deep Aug 21, 2009
teborg in Sweden and Laurence Madin of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The research was supported by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, NOAA, WHOI and the National Geographic Society. (Science Daily)
Worms that release glowing body parts Aug 21, 2009
The research was paid for the Scripps Institution, University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the National Geographic Society. More Stories from this section. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Dell's New Inspiron Mini Nickelodeon Edition Takes Personalization to New Heights With 'Slime' Motif and Unique Entertainment, Educational Content Aug 12, 2009
In addition, the Dell Inspiron Mini Nickelodeon Edition will include a desktop animaticon linked to educational content from , where kids can actively participate in educational activities and games sponsored by authoritative organizations such as NASA, Scholastic Publishing, the Centers for Disease Control and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. For example, in one project sponsored by the University of Texas System and the School Nutrition Association, Whyvilles citizens elect to eat... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
UMass grad second in Falmouth’s women’s race Aug 10, 2009
For the first time in several decades, the race s traditional taped bugler s call to post at the Woods Hole start was performed live. Falmouth high schooler Jay Souweine did the honors. (Boston Globe)
Consider The Oyster (and Ocean Farming) Aug 4, 2009
If you look globally, the untapped potential of producing more food from the oceans is enormous, adds Hauke Kite-Powell, a research specialist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who sat with Manahan on a National Academies committee studying the issue. Yes, they are talking about farming the oceans: aquaculture, or mariculture - by either name, still a sliver of the world s farming output, and a dirty word to those who like their fish wild. (Science Daily)
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He earned a doctorate from Stanford, taught at California and Harvard, and was director of the Woods Hole Research Center -- where his co-authorship of "Human Ecology" is cited in his online curriculum vitae. "Human Ecology" painted an apocalyptic vision. (Human Events Online)
George Shor, 86, early researcher of plate tectonics Jul 13, 2009
Mr. Shor joined Scripps in 1953 at the beginning of what researchers have dubbed the golden age of oceanography, in which research vessels from Scripps, Columbia University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Cambridge University plied the oceans, trailing magnetometers and other sophisticated instruments to detect the overall structure of the ocean floor and anomalies beneath it. He began his work in the Gulf of Alaska, a region whose geologic history was little known, then led... (Boston Globe)
REGION: Study says two-thirds of state beaches eroding Jul 5, 2009
That's largely because much of the region's shore is armored with man-made structures designed to block damaging waves, said Cheryl Hapke, a coastal geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center in Massachusetts, in a telephone interview Friday. The man-made structures are slowing the retreat of cliffs and bluffs by shielding them from powerful waves, Hapke said. (North County Times)
Scientist: Global Warming Claims a Lot of Hype Jul 4, 2009
In the letter, the scientists cited a letter sent by the Woods Hole Research Center, which exhorted Congress to act quickly to avoid a global disaster due to alleged global warming ... Singer said the Woods Hole group put on a sort of scary exaggerated kind of letter to Congress ahead of the vote in the House in an obvious attempt to stampede them into voting for the Waxman-Markey [cap and trade environmental] bill. (Newsmax)
Antibiotics Take Toll On Beneficial Microbes In Gut Jul 3, 2009
D., Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. and Thomas M. Schmidt, Ph. (Science Daily)
AGU journal highlights - July 2, 2009 Jul 3, 2009
A. Proshutinsky: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. J. H. Morison and M. Steele: Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. (EurekAlert!)
Politicians learn from drug dealers Jun 30, 2009
The value therein is that it even more clearly highlights those that seek scientific knowledge and understanding such as NASA, NOAA, American Meteorological Society, World Meteorological Association, National Academy of Sciences, American Institute of Physics, American Geophysical Union, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, US Geological Survey, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, International Council on... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Climate report presses for action Jun 17, 2009
They are facts to be dealt with, said one of the report s chief authors, Jerry Melillo of Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Mass. We can act now to avoid the worst impacts. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
He was second best Jun 16, 2009
He watched Woods hole a 12-foot bumpy birdie putt on the final hole of the fourth round to force the 18-hole playoff, then again led by a shot on the par-5 18th, only to have Woods tie him with another birdie, sending the two to sudden death. "Roc has been just unbelievably nice to me and a great friend to me over the years since my first year out here on tour," said Woods. (Boston Globe)
Toward Cheap Underwater Sensor Nets Jun 1, 2009
(May 20, 2005) Jason Holmes, a BU mechanical engineering graduate student and guest researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, has devised a low-cost, highly sensitive array of underwater ears that is. (Dec. (Science Daily)
Marine Mammals' Brains On Pesticides May 21, 2009
Eric Montie, the lead author on the study currently in press and published online April 17 in Environmental Pollution, performed the research as a student in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution-MIT Joint Graduate Program in Oceanography and Ocean Engineering and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The final data analysis and writing were conducted at College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, where Montie now works in David Mann s marine... (Science Daily)
Gadget Could Show War Games' Effects On Orcas May 20, 2009
It's a tiny gadget, developed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, which Navy researchers are currently sticking on the backs of whales and other marine mammals - that allows them to do their war games, or exercises, while being able to see what the real effects the noise is having on wildlife, but not our wildlife. "Why aren't they doing that here?" asked KIRO 7 reporter Chris Egert. (KIRO TV, WA)
Scientists document fate of oil slicks from natural seeps May 14, 2009
According to new findings by scientists from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), that's how much oil has made its way into sediments offshore from petroleum seeps near Coal Oil Point off Goleta, Calif. in the Santa Barbara Channel. (EurekAlert!)
Stanford students set sail on research voyage May 10, 2009
The trip is part of the Stanford at Sea program, a joint venture between the university and the Sea Education Association, based in Woods Hole, Mass. Bay City News Service. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Robot sub aims for deepest ocean May 7, 2009
"Instead of jumping directly into the deep end of the swimming pool with the vehicle, we'll probably dip our toe in first," said Andy Bowen of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and one of the designers of Nereus ... In its intelligent, autonomous mode, Nereus can map large areas of the ocean floor (animation courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) ... Nereus can be transformed into a remote-controlled vehicle (animation courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution). (BBC News -- Science)
Global Warming: Ocean Iron Disappoints May 7, 2009
In 2007 Bishop and Lam (who was now at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) published measurements from shipboard instruments deployed during SOFeX which suggested that the rosy picture of plankton blooms sending carbon to the deep ocean wasn t so simple after all. Carbon reaching the deep ocean depended partly on particle size and weight; more important, there seemed to be much less particulate matter reaching depth where the biomass was highest, e.g., in plankton blooms. (Science Daily)
Current level of oyster farming unlikely to have substantial impact on Drakes Estero ecosystem May 6, 2009
HAUKE KITE-POWELL Research Specialist Marine Policy Center Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, Mass. DONAL T. MANAHAN Professor of Biological Sciences College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles. (EurekAlert!)
Rapid Shifts In Wildfire Hotspots To Come? Apr 8, 2009
(June 1, 2004) Clues to the timing and cause of abrupt climate changes in the past may lie in ocean floor sediments, according to a study by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. (Aug. (Science Daily)
Technology opens promise, perils of ocean mining Apr 6, 2009
"It's a unique set of life down there. Frankly, we haven't found everything. We need make sure we go in with our eyes open," said Maurice Tivey, a geologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which is hosting the public ocean mining colloquium ... The Obama administration has indicated it wants to sign the treaty, and this week's meeting at Woods Hole is proceeding as if the U.S. ultimately will have a say as a treaty participant. (North County Times)
New England lobster traps are nabbing dinner, data Mar 30, 2009
Two temperature probes are attached to a lobster trap sitting on a dock in Woods Hole, Mass. The probes are part of a project known as Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps. (North County Times)
Shuttle crew includes skiers, ultramarathoner Mar 9, 2009
Besides teaching, Arnold, 45, who goes by Ricky, has worked as an oceanographic technician for the U.S. Naval Academy and a marine scientist aboard a boat based in Woods Hole, Mass. He has a master's degree in marine, estuarine and environmental science. (KSLA.com, LA)
Half Of Oil In Ocean Bubbles Up Naturally Feb 20, 2009
"This capacity for detecting oil in the ocean has great potential, not just for oil seeps but for responding to oil spills," said Chris Reddy, a marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. "Scientists might be able to use this to forensically study old spills, to watch how new ones evolve in real time, and to rule out a spill when there is none. Ultimately, this could lead to a better use of our public resources.". (Science Daily)
Fire strikes Mass. house used by Henry Fonda Feb 9, 2009
The house in Woods Hole was used as a practice spot by an up-and-coming theater group known as the University Players because their founders were students at Harvard, Princeton and Radcliffe. In 1928, the group ---- including Fonda -- raised enough money to raise the curtain for their first play. (North County Times)
Three New Species Discovered In Deep Sea Feb 8, 2009
The voyage was funded by the National Science Foundation and was the second of two cruises taken by the team, which included researchers from the United States--including scientists from Caltech and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, which owns and operates the submersible Jason--and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The first of those voyages was taken in January 2008, with this most recent one spanning 33 days from... (Science Daily)
U of Minnesota-led study reveals mysteries of deep-sea nutrients Feb 8, 2009
"The key to understanding where the iron will travel and whether it will be accessible to life depends on the chemical form of the iron; at the sea floor, we're finding forms of iron we didn't expect to see." Toner led the research on iron chemistry as a postdoctoral researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts ... It included scientists from the University of Southern California as well as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic... (EurekAlert!)
