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PLANKTON Getting to the bottom of the food chain
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WOODS HOLE -- They drift in the ocean's turbulent surface waters
and swim in gloomy depths thousands of feet deep. Plankton -- from
single-celled plants that glow in the dark to hundred-foot-long
chains of intricate transparent animals -- form a living fog, a fog
that has colored the world's seas for millenia.
But only now are the most elusive and delicate of these undersea
creatures being captured alive and studied. Only now are they
revealing stunning complexities that belie their c...
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SCIENTISTS, SIGHTSEERS ENLIVEN WOODS HOLE
The Boston Globe
; WOODS HOLE - A walk through Woods Hole found few takers for the shops, galleries, and craft stores along Water Street as temperatures dipped below freezing last week. But seven months from now, in the middle of the tourist season, the streets will be swarming again with scientists and sightseers.
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Scientic research, village life thrive in Woods Hole
The Boston Globe
; WOODS HOLE -- At the westernmost and southernmost part of Cape Cod is a tiny hamlet sought out by scientists from all over the world and by hundreds of thousands of tourists seeking to leave it for somewhere else. Woods Hole, a former whaling and fishing port, is "a land's end kind of place,"
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NAVIGATING WOODS HOLE IS A CURRENT AFFAIR
The Boston Globe
; You're doing everything right. You've looked at your chart, the Global Positioning System is showing your position, and the buoys ahead seem easy to read. Following the go-to-sea rule, you leave the green marks to your right, red to your left. The passage runs southeast from a stretch called The
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Woods Hole sees profit in the seas Renowned research institution moves to commercialize marine technology in order to stabilize its funding stream
The Boston Globe
; ... lowering the drawbridge to our ivory tower," said James Rakowski, the institution's director of resource development. That's welcome news to state and local economic development officials, who say the marine technology industry, while small, is ready to grow. With ...
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Woods Hole gets $97.7m US grant Ocean observation system to be built
The Boston Globe
; A team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has won a $97.7 million research grant from the National Science Foundation to build an ocean observation system of buoys and robotic underwater vehicles off Cape Cod. The award, which will be matched by a $10 million state grant, is the
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PEACE, LOVE, AND HOUSEBOATS THE DENIZENS OF WOODS HOLE ENJOY AN ENVIRONMENT THAT'S TOLERANT OF ECCENTRICS AND BRIMMING WITH BRAINPOWER.
The Boston Globe
; On a warm May day when the ocean looked as still as glass, Ken Lyons sashayed down Water Street, the aptly named main thoroughfare of the water-bound village of Woods Hole. He headed to a small public park that looks out onto Great Harbor and the deep-water passage linking Vineyard Sound and
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PAUL M. FYE, 75, OF FALMOUTH, HEADED WOODS HOLE INSTITUTION
The Boston Globe
; Paul M. Fye, director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1958 to 1977, died of heart failure Friday in his Falmouth home. He was 75. Mr. Fye's career in oceanography spanned nearly 50 years. His first job in the field was as an assistant professor at Hofstra University, Hempstead,
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Mary Sears, oceanographer, biologist at Woods Hole, 92
The Boston Globe
; Mary Sears of Woods Hole, a world-renowned oceanographer, biologist, and author of marine publications, died Tuesday at her home of congestive heart failure. She was 92. Miss Sears was born and raised in Wayland, graduating from the Winsor School in Boston. She received her bachelor's, master's and
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Woods Hole Film Festival a labor of love
The Boston Globe
; You've gotta hand it to the folks who run the Woods Hole Film Festival: They've toiled in their spare time for months to present the eight-day showcase that begins Saturday. Unlike the Nantucket festival, Woods Hole's primarily focuses on work by New England and East Coast filmmakers. The
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Henry Stommel, oceanographer at Woods Hole Institution; at 71
The Boston Globe
; A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in St. Barnabas Church, Falmouth, for Henry Melson Stommel, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Mr. Stommel died Thursday following surgery at New England Deaconess Hospital. He was 71. Mr. Stommel was recognized as one
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