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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 100 Million Dollar Deal

$100M WHOI deal sealed in 2007 -Town of Falmouth Gets Wind Turbines 2010

$100M WHOI deal sealed in 2007

WOODS HOLE — The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution accepted the largest single monetary award in its history yesterday. It will create a system of offshore, remotely controlled, ocean observatories.

- See more at: http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20070824/NEWS/708240330&cid=sitesearch#sthash.mpk8JUbe.dpuf

“The $97.7 million from the National Science Foundation and Joint Oceanographic Institution’s Ocean Observatories Initiative, along with $10 million from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, will be used to build and deploy a system of buoys, linked to stations on the ocean floor. The stations will house unmanned underwater vehicles controlled remotely by scientists, which will collect data and transmit information back to scientists on shore in real time. “- Truncated : See more at: http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20070824/NEWS/708240330&cid=sitesearch#sthash.mpk8JUbe.dpuf

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