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<b><span class="heading">Open House in Celebration of WHOI's 75th
Anniversary</span></b>
<p> <span class="subhead"><font color="333333">Saturday, September 10,
2005 • 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution </font></span><i>
(rain or shine)</i><br>
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<hr width="100%" size="2">The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
(WHOI) is celebrating 75 years of ocean research, education, and
exploration in 2005. Founded in 1930 to help advance the role of the
United States in worldwide oceanographic research, WHOI has grown from
a summer laboratory to a thriving, year-round, major research
operation. Today the Institution has a staff and student population of
nearly a thousand people working and studying on two campuses in Woods
Hole, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod and at research locations around the
world. It operates three large research vessels, several smaller boats,
the submersible <em>Alvin</em>, and a fleet of deep-diving remotely
operated and autonomous vehicles.
<p>This will be WHOI's first open house in 25 years. Both the
Woods Hole and Quissett campuses will be included, with shuttle buses
running between them. Parking will be available on the Quissett Campus
and in the village lots of various Woods Hole research institutions. </p>
<p> Open house features include robotic vehicles, the coastal research
vessel <em>Tioga</em>, scientific exhibits and demonstrations, a
just-published book on the institution's history, and 20 talks on
subjects ranging from right whales and red tides to coastal erosion and
archaeological mapping in Greek waters. An incomplete list of open
house components (more are being added) appears on the web site
included below.<br>
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<p>For more information on the Open House and other 75th anniversary
events, visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.whoi.edu/75th/index.html">http://www.whoi.edu/75th/index.html</a>.<br>
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