Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Woods Hole is a census-designated place in the town of Falmouth in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. It lies at the extreme southwest corner of Cape Cod, near Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands. The population was 781 at the 2010 census.
It is the site of several famous marine science institutions, including Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Woods Hole Research Center, NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center, a USGS coastal and marine geology center, and the home campus of the Sea Education Association. It is also the site of United States Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England, the Nobska Light lighthouse, and the terminus of the Steamship Authority ferry route between Cape Cod and the island of Martha's Vineyard.
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Stroll Through Woods Hole: Sippewissett Campground
Stroll Through Woods Hole: Sippewissett Campground
The Raynham Channel
Woods Hole Science Aquarium [Cape Cod]
We went to the Woods Hole Science Aquarium on Cape Cod. It would have been nice to see the seal feeding, but they weren't there.
The kids had a fun time on this free visit. They got to see a variety of fish and sea creatures, and they got a behind-the-scenes look at the tanks and tech side of the facility.
It was a rainy day, and we spent more time driving than hanging out. But it was worth seeing the ocean, Cape Cod, and exploring some sea life up close.
Falmouth, MA Evening Drive, Main Street
Falmouth, MA Evening Drive, Main Street
Cape Cod, MA.
Falmouth (pronunciation: /ˈfælmᵻθ/ FAL-mith) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States; Barnstable County is coextensive with Cape Cod. The population was 31,532 at the 2010 census, making Falmouth the second-largest municipality on Cape Cod after Barnstable. The terminal for the Steamship Authority ferries to Martha's Vineyard is located in the village of Woods Hole in Falmouth. Woods Hole also contains several scientific organizations such as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), the Woods Hole Research Center, the Woods Hole Science Aquarium, and the scientific institutions' various museums.
For geographic and demographic information on specific parts of the town of Falmouth, please see the articles on East Falmouth, Falmouth Village, North Falmouth, Teaticket, West Falmouth, and Woods Hole. Falmouth also encompasses the villages of Hatchville and Waquoit, which are not census-designated places and fall within the village of East Falmouth based on postal service
Falmouth was first settled by English colonists in 1660 and was officially incorporated in 1686. Bartholomew Gosnold named the settlement for Falmouth, Cornwall, England, his home port. Early principal activities were farming, salt works, shipping, whaling, and sheep husbandry, which was very popular due to the introduction of Merino sheep and the beginnings of water-powered mills that could process the wool. In 1837, Falmouth averaged about 50 sheep per square mile.
Falmouth saw brief action in the War of 1812, when the area around Falmouth Heights, on its southern coast, was bombarded by several British frigates and ships of the line, and Massachusetts militia hastily entrenched themselves on the beaches to repulse a possible British landing which never came. By 1872, the train had come to Falmouth and Woods Hole, and some of the first summer homes were established. By the late 19th century, cranberries were being cultivated and strawberries were being raised for the Boston market. Large-scale dairying was tried in the early 20th century in interior regions. After the improvement in highways, and thanks in part to the heavy use of neighboring Otis Air National Guard Base during World War II, population growth increased significantly. Large homebuilding booms occurred in the 1970s, followed by others in the 1980s and 1990s.
In the late 1800s, after railroad service was established between Boston and Cape Cod, James Madison Beebe bought over 700 acres (280 ha) and built Highfield Hall, which is now a museum, and much of the land is preserved as Beebe Woods.
In 1965, Robert Manry sailed from Falmouth aboard his 13.5-foot (4.1 m) sailboat and reached Falmouth, England, 78 days later
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Part TWO - In Search of Tricho - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Part TWO: Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA on the research vessel R/V Oceanus undertake a three week cruise to study health and function of plankton in the western North Atlantic. The final installment in a 3 part series documenting the cruise, the research, and the scientists by ScienceMedia.nl from The Netherlands.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Senior Scientist Scott Doney
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Senior Scientist Scott Doney at the U.S. Center at COP15, Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark on December 15, 2009. Go to for text transcript and more video.
Party Boat Runs Aground Off Woods Hole
The Coast Guard says 106 people were on board and there are no reports of any injuries. WBZ-TV's Susie Steimle reports.
National Women's History Month: Rachel Carson
Saluting biologist, writer, and conservationist Rachel Carson.
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Photo 1: Marian Carson with her three children, Marian, Rachel (about 3) and Robert (Carson family photograph)
Photo 2: Rachel Carson as a child, reading to her dog Candy (Carson family photograph)
Photo 3: Rachel Carson with Bob Hines in the Florida Keys, gathering information for The Edge of the Sea. (Rex Gary Schmidt)
Photo 4: Rachel Carson entrance photo for Johns Hopkins Graduate School, 1928 (Carson family photograph)
Photo 5: Rachel Carson at microscope, 1951 (Brooks Studio)
Photo 6: Rachel Carson in her summer laboratory at Woods Hole, MA (Unknown)
Photo 7: Rachel Carson at Woods Home, MA, 1951 (Edwin Gray)
Photo 8: Silent Spring cover photo (yale.edu)
Photo 9: Rachel Carson watching migrating hawks at Hawk Mountain, PA, 1945 (Shirley A. Briggs)
Photo 10: Rachel Carson's government photograph while she was working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (USFWS)
Photo 11: Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge (DOI)
Photo 12: Rachel Carson on the dock at Woods Hole, MA 1951 (Edwin Gray)
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Seeing Deeper into the White Shark's World | Greg Skomal | TEDxNewBedford
What are white sharks doing when we can’t see them? Greg Skomal wants you to know. In this amazing story of chasing a dream and amazing discovery, Greg reveals new robotic technology and follows white sharks into the deep to reveal their secrets.
Gregory Skomal, Ph.D. is a senior scientist and program manager at Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, specializing in using underwater robots to study shark behavior.
Dr. Gregory Skomal is an accomplished marine biologist, underwater explorer, photographer, and author. He has been a senior fisheries biologist with Massachusetts Marine Fisheries since 1987 and currently heads up the Massachusetts Shark Research Program (MSRP). He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts School of Marine Science and Technology and an adjunct scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Through the MSRP, Greg has been actively involved in the study of life history, ecology, and physiology of sharks. His shark research has spanned multiple fish habitats around the globe taking him from the frigid waters of the Arctic Circle to coral reefs in the tropical Central Pacific.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
Falmouth Massachusetts History Introduction
Falmouth Introduction
Walking in the New Hampshire woods
Walking in the woods
Dr. Josef Kellndorfer, Senior Scientist, WHRC
Project: National Biomass and Carbon Dataset
In April 2011, the Woods Hole Research Center released the first hectare-scale maps of canopy height, aboveground biomass, and associated carbon stock for the forests and woodlands of the conterminous United States. The multi-year project, referred to as the National Biomass and Carbon Dataset (NBCD), produced maps of these key forest attributes at an unprecedented spatial resolution of 30 m. The dataset represents a comprehensive assessment of forest structure and carbon stock within the lower 48 States at the beginning of the third millennium, providing an important baseline with which to improve our understanding of the United States forest resources and its link to the terrestrial carbon flux in North America. The NBCD data set also fills a crucial gap in biodiversity science and will provide ecologists and land managers with new and better information to support biodiversity conservation, wildfire risk assessment, and timber production while helping climate scientists and others to better understand the role that U.S. forests play in the global carbon cycle.
This is Falmouth
Come explore the town of Falmouth where you can hop on a ferry to the Vineyard, take a bike ride along the Shining Sea bike path, visit the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, visit the Museums on the Green or just enjoy the day at one of the many beautiful beaches located in this wonderful town.
Old Connecticut Path: Into the Douglas Woods - Douglas, MA
This is a video of a circuit walk into the Douglas Woods along an old trail leading to the Old Connecticut Path and then following the Path back. From Northwest Main Street in Douglas, a leads to an early colonial old cabin site in Cooperville, then ascends to the ridge to meet the Old Connecticut Path and the lodge site on the Path. Return following the Old Connecticut Path crossing an ancient stone bridge and passing a beaver dam (see YouTube video Old Connecticut Path: Walk Across a Beaver Dam - Douglas, MA) to reach the starting point. A complete description of the walk and map may be found at the Old Connecticut Path website
The longest wilderness section of the Old Connecticut Path can be followed across the Douglas Woods located in Douglas and Webster, Massachusetts. The Path penetrates deep wilderness on its 4 mile route from Northwest Main Street in Douglas to Rawson Road in Webster.
The Douglas Woods contains 3,000 acres of Douglas State Forest north of RT16, 1,000 acres of Mine Brook Wildlife Management Area and hundreds of additional acres of town and private lands. The 4,000+ acres of woodland serves as wilderness retreat and a time capsule for the Old Connecticut Path. Stone bridges, box culverts, stepping stones placed to improve the path serve as reminders of the importance of the Path for early colonial travel. Field stone chimneys stand as silent reminders of the early settlers who came along the Path to claim their place in the wilderness.
Beaver ponds, vernal pools, chasms and streams are part of a diverse environment that supports wildlife species such as white-tailed deer, wild turkey, ruffed grouse, fisher, gray fox, and various salamanders. In addition, the large, unfragmented, forested block is important for Neotropical migrant birds such as scarlet tanagers, rose-breasted grosbeaks and broad-winged hawks. Resident birds such as pileated and red-bellied woodpeckers, white-breasted nuthatch, brown creeper and barred owl live within the vast green woodland.
The Douglas Woods lies between the site of the Manchaug praying village in West Sutton and the Chaubunagungamaug praying village on the shore of Webster Lake. The shortest route between these sites crosses the Douglas Woods from Manchaug Pond to the Narrows at Webster Lake.
The Old Connecticut Path follows the route of the stage road that improved the way during the earliest years of settlement. This route was bypassed as towns of Douglas and Oxford were settled with the way to Connecticut diverted to go through them. By 1725-1750, it is likely that the route of the Old Connecticut Path across the Douglas Woods fell out of use as the route from the Massachusetts Bay to Connecticut.
The Sutton Historical Society reported on Secrets of the Douglas Woods. A copy may be viewed at the link below:
The vast Douglas Woods provides a wonderful opportunity for exploring the Old Connecticut Path within a deep wilderness that has been preserved for centuries.
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Cape Cod in the fall
Cape cod in the fall,
Cape Cod, a hook-shaped peninsula of the U.S. state of Massachusetts, is a popular summertime destination. It's the site of quaint villages, seafood shacks, lighthouses, ponds and bay and ocean beaches. In the large town of Hyannis, the John F. Kennedy Museum is the first stop on the Kennedy Legacy Trail through downtown, where ferries depart to the resort islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Cape Cod is a geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer months.
As defined by the Cape Cod Commission's enabling legislation, Cape Cod is conterminous with Barnstable County, Massachusetts.[2] It extends from Provincetown in the northeast to Woods Hole in the southwest, and is bordered by Plymouth to the northwest.
Since 1914, most of Cape Cod has been separated from the mainland by the Cape Cod Canal. The canal cuts 7 miles (11 km) roughly across the base of the peninsula, though small portions of the Cape Cod towns of Bourne and Sandwich lie on the mainland side of the canal. Two highway bridges cross the Cape Cod Canal: the Sagamore Bridge and the Bourne Bridge. In addition, the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge carries railway freight and limited passenger services onto the Cape. Cape territory is divided into 15 towns with many villages.
Cape Cod has been the home of the Wampanoag Native American people for many centuries. They survived off the sea and were accomplished farmers. They understood the principles of sustainable forest management, and were known to light controlled fires to keep the underbrush in check. They helped the Pilgrims, who arrived in the fall of 1620, survive at their new Plymouth Colony.
The Wampanoag lost their lands through continued purchase and expropriation by the English colonists. The documentary Natives of the Narrowland (1993), narrated by actress Julie Harris, shows the history of the Wampanoag people through Cape Cod archaeological sites.
In 1974, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council was formed to articulate the concerns of those with Native American ancestry. They petitioned the federal government in 1975 and again in 1990 for official recognition of the Mashpee Wampanoag as a tribe. In May 2007, the Wampanoag tribe was federally recognized
JEFFREY DONNELLY
Associate Scientist with Tenure, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
PRESENTATION TITLE: A Perfect Storm: The Collision of Tropical Cyclones, Climate Change and Coastal Population Growth
ABSTRACT: Damage from hurricanes has increased markedly over the last century, largely the result of increased coastal population and wealth. The recent impacts of Hurricane Sandy, a minimal category 1 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale (sustained winds of ~80 mph), in New York and New Jersey highlight the vulnerability of the northeastern United States to tropical cyclone strikes. Despite the relatively low sustained wind speeds associated with Sandy, the large size, shore-perpendicular track, and slow movement of the storm resulted in a significant surge along the New Jersey and New York coastline (e.g., 2.75 m In New York City). Making matters worse, the peak in surge in New York City (NYC) and surrounds coincided with a high tide, resulting in total storm tide heights of more than 3 meters above mean sea level in NYC. Current estimates of the damage resulting from Hurricane Sandy exceed 71 billion USD and 285 lives were lost.
While direct hurricane strikes to NYC and New Jersey coast were rare in the 20th century (a cat 1 hurricane made landfall in southern NJ in 1903), hurricanes tracked slightly east and impacted Long Island and southern New England in 1938, 1944, 1954, 1960, 1976, 1985, and 1991. Looking back to the 19th and 18th centuries reveals that NYC and the New Jersey coast were struck by hurricanes in 1788, 1821 and 1893. The combination of documentary evidence and SLOSH modeling of these historic events indicates that the intensity of these storms were much greater than that of Hurricane Sandy, with the 1788 and 1821 storms likely making landfall at category 3 intensity. In southern New England storms of this intensity struck in 1938, 1869, 1815, 1675, and 1635. Given the increase in coastal population and development over the last two centuries, if storms like these were to occur today they would likely result in significantly more damage and loss of life than Hurricane Sandy.
Overwash-deposit based reconstructions of hurricane landfalls suggest that the northeastern US may have at times experienced intense hurricane strikes much more frequently than historically observed. In addition, the scale and character of some of these prehistoric overwash deposits suggests that some of these events may have been much more powerful than any the region has experienced historically. Thus, looking to assess the risk of hurricane landfalls in the region by relying on recent observed landfalls could potentially significantly underestimate the threat to the region, particularly given recent ocean warming that results in more energy available to hurricanes. Consequently in order to characterize future hurricane-related risks it is essential that we better understand past patterns of hurricane landfalls in the region and the underlying climatic forcing mechanisms that drive such changes.
Body of missing Brown student discovered Updated: 6 hours ago
FALMOUTH, Mass. (WPRI) -- After nearly two weeks of tireless searching, the pursuit of a missing college student has come to a tragic end.According to Fairhaven Police, the body of 21-year-old Dana Dourdeville of Marion washed ashore in East Falmouth Sunday afternoon.A volunteer civilian search party found the Brown University student between the Cape Cod Canal and Woods Hole, in the area of Penzance Point.Dourdeville was declared missing after he didn't come back from a duck hunting trip off the coast of Fairhaven on New Year's Eve.Search parties consisting of police, fire, the Coast Guard, volunteers, friends, and family spent days scouring the area trying to track him down.We knew we had to cover a lot of ground, said Bill Tilden, a friend of the family. We covered West Island until we thought we had exhausted it, we'd still go back every day because the tides, you never know what's going to end up at the next tide.Tilden described Dourdeville as an amazing young man, a well-rounded student and athlete with a big heart.He'd just brighten up a room. It didn't matter how bright that room was already, when he walked in he just had that smile on his face, he was always looking forward to whatever his next endeavor was, he added.Police said there was no evidence of trauma, however an autopsy will now be conducted by the Massachusetts State Medical Examiner's office. Copyright WPRI 12
FALMOUTH, Mass. (WPRI) -- After nearly two weeks of tireless searching, the pursuit of a missing college student has come to a tragic end.According to Fairhaven Police, the body of 21-year-old Dana Dourdeville of Marion washed ashore in East Falmouth Sunday afternoon.A volunteer civilian search party found the Brown University student between the Cape Cod Canal and Woods Hole, in the area of Penzance Point.Dourdeville was declared missing after he didn't come back from a duck hunting trip off the coast of Fairhaven on New Year's Eve.Search parties consisting of police, fire, the Coast Guard, volunteers, friends, and family spent days scouring the area trying to track him down.We knew we had to cover a lot of ground, said Bill Tilden, a friend of the family. We covered West Island until we thought we had exhausted it, we'd still go back every day because the tides, you never know what's going to end up at the next tide.Tilden described Dourdeville as an amazing young man, a well-rounded student and athlete with a big heart.He'd just brighten up a room. It didn't matter how bright that room was already, when he walked in he just had that smile on his face, he was always looking forward to whatever his next endeavor was, he added.Police said there was no evidence of trauma, however an autopsy will now be conducted by the Massachusetts State Medical Examiner's office. Copyright WPRI 12
FALMOUTH, Mass. (WPRI) -- After nearly two weeks of tireless searching, the pursuit of a missing college student has come to a tragic end.According to Fairhaven Police, the body of 21-year-old Dana Dourdeville of Marion washed ashore in East Falmouth Sunday afternoon.A volunteer civilian search party found the Brown University student between the Cape Cod Canal and Woods Hole, in the area of Penzance Point.Dourdeville was declared missing after he didn't come back from a duck hunting trip off the coast of Fairhaven on New Year's Eve.Search parties consisting of police, fire, the Coast Guard, volunteers, friends, and family spent days scouring the area trying to track him down.We knew we had to cover a lot of ground, said Bill Tilden, a friend of the family. We covered West Island until we thought we had exhausted it, we'd still go back every day because the tides, you never know what's going to end up at the next tide.Tilden described Dourdeville as an amazing young man, a well-rounded student and athlete with a big heart.He'd just brighten up a room. It didn't matter how bright that room was already, when he walked in he just had that smile on his face, he was always looking forward to whatever his next endeavor was, he added.Police said there was no evidence of trauma, however an autopsy will now be conducted by the Massachusetts State Medical Examiner's office. Copyright WPRI 12
Body of missing Brown student discovered Updated: 6 hours ago
Body of missing Brown student discovered Updated: 6 hours ago
Body of missing Brown student discovered Updated: 6 hours ago
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What evolutionary theory does evolutionary medicine need? - Manfred Laubichler
Manfred Laubichler will be talking about his research at this CEMinar. He is President's Professor of theoretical biology and history of biology and director of the Global Biosocial Complexity Initiative at Arizona State University. His work focuses on evolutionary novelties from genomes to knowledge systems, the structure of evolutionary theory and the evolution of knowledge. His undergraduate training was in zoology, philosophy and mathematics at the University of Vienna (Austria) and his graduate training was in biology at Yale and in History/History of Science at Princeton. He is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and co-director of the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems, an adjunct scientist with the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany, external faculty member at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, and guest professor at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. He is also an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a former fellow of the WIssenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Vice Chair of the Global Climate Forum.
Finding cellar holes - reading the landscape - the lost history of New England Not Thursday # 42 NH
Finding cellar holes out in the woods of old homesites from the 1700s & reading the land to find the lost history of New England.
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Taking a long hike in the woods of New Hampshire scouting for old abandoned colonial homesites that are now just the abandoned farms of Americas History. The goal is to find cellar holes and map them for our towns historical society and put the pieces together of where the settlers once lived and famed in our town. Reading the land is really its own language and once you learn it you can see and understand why the forests look the way they do today. All these rock walls in New Hampshire and other New England states all have a meaning as to why they were built and the layout gives us important clues as to what the people who lived here were doing. At the end of the day we draw the winners for the July 2018 giveaways.
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