Woods Hole News

Christopher Winslow has been named chief financial officer and vice president of finance and administration for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, effective August 24.

Regional Technology Development Corp. of Cape Cod is teaming up with the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole to promote and create a market for the laboratory's work.

A Vineyard Haven man backed into a local police cruiser on Saturday, the fifth time in under two weeks a Falmouth police cruiser has been involved in an accident.

I am posting here a letter by some top notch American scientists to the US Congress.

Henry Rome is headed off to Princeton University in September, but the local 17-year-old hasn't quite written off his Pennsylvania high school.

An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to deep-sea food webs.

Plymouth filmmaker Beth Murphy in Cairo making "The Promise of Freedom'' with Kevin Belli and Sean Flynn.

With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute." True, indeed.

NOAAa s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and National Marine Fisheries Service , have selected a consortium of five universities for the new Cooperative Institute for North Atlantic Research .

A wind-surfer who ended up clinging to a buoy after the sail detached from his board while he was surfing in the West Passage of Narragansett Bay was rescued after being in the water for nearly an hour Monday night, according to Coast Guard officials in Woods Hole, Mass.

Falmouth Academy's Summer Programs are offering more than 50 courses this year. For five weeks, children ages 4 and up and adults will kick balls, throw ceramic pots, eat Chinese dumplings, create puppets, learn fencing, search for geocache treasures and speak in Belgian or Indian dialects.

The two-year-old inlet into Pleasant Bay still hasn't created major problems inside the bay, but the next 100 years may tell a different story, experts said last night.

The marine energy research center at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth received confirmation this week that it will receive $1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy.

IT WAS one year ago today that Governor Patrick joined with legislative, academic, and industry leaders to sign into law the Massachusetts Life Sciences Initiative.

Abstract For decades, many aspects of Dinophysis biology have remained intractable due to our inability to maintain these organisms in laboratory cultures.

The island community of Martha's Vineyard is mourning the death of one teenager and praying for the full recovery of another scheduled to graduate from high school tomorrow.

When Nicole Goldman first encountered her current home here, the yard was so overgrown she could hardly see it from the street.

Imagine special trains from Boston carrying bicycles and their riders to Cape Cod for a weekend stay.

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution sent a robotic vehicle to the deepest-known part of the world's oceans last week.

The Cape may dodge the red tide bullet this year. Michael Hickey, the top shellfish biologist at the state Division of Marine Fisheries, said yesterday shellfish sampling on the Cape has, thus far, shown little to no evidence of the red tide algae toxin.