Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (http://www.whoi.edu) is a soft money institution founded in 1930, whose mission is to extend our understanding of how the oceans in all there parts function. WHOI maintains a fleet of vessels (http://www.whoi.edu/marops/research_vessels/index.html) available to the oceanographic community; as well as a large library of marine related works (http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/) on a large shore based campus (http://www.whoi.edu/home/index_about.html) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Oceanography (from Ocean + Greek γράφειν = write), also called oceanology and marine science is the study of the earths oceans and their interlinked ecosystems and chemical and physical processes. ...
WoodsHole might have continued to grow as one of the factory towns of Massachusetts but, fortunately for the progress of science and good fortune of its residents (except those who invested their savings in the shares of Pacific Guano Works), the company began to decline and became bankrupt in 1889.
At the time of his arrival at WoodsHole in 1871, Baird was well known to the scientific circles of this country and abroad as a naturalist, student of classification and distribution of mammals and birds, and as a tireless collector of zoological specimens.
WoodsHole was selected as the base of the sea coast operations during the first summer and Vinal N. Edwards became the first permanent federal employee of the fisheries service.
The town of WoodsHole, Massachusetts, is located on the extreme southwest end of Cape Cod, near Falmouth.
In 1871, Spenser Baird, the new commissioner of fish and fisheries and assistant-secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, arrived on the scene.
WoodsHole has consistently been a world leader in developing sophisticated detection equipment that would enable scientists to pry secrets from the vast area covered by the EarthÂ’s oceans.
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