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Woods Hole gets $97.7m US grant Ocean observation system to be built
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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 largest in the institution's history and comes nearly a year
after Woods Hole was forced to cut jobs because of a falloff in
federal money.
The institution will lead a team that includes the ...
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; 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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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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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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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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