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R/V Atlantis at WHOI dock with Bigelow building in background.

R/V Atlantis at WHOI dock with Bigelow building in background.
R/V Atlantis at WHOI dock with Bigelow building in background.
R/V Atlantis at WHOI dock with Bigelow building in background.
R/V Atlantis at WHOI dock with Bigelow building in background.
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R/V Atlantis at WHOI dock with Bigelow building in background.
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01/01/1931
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2012 Calendar caption, inside cover:
Established in 1930, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is an independent marine research, engineering, and higher education organization. The Institution provides international leadership in advancing and communicating a basic understanding of the oceans and their decisive role in global questions. WHOI brings together a unique complement of assets including world-class scientists; innovative engineers who push the limits of technology; research vessels and state-of-the-art deep-submergence vehicles; and graduate students who learn from the best in the field and, in turn, become leaders in oceanography. Research at the Institution is broadly divided into five academic departments: Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering; Biology; Geology and Geophysics; Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry; and Physical Oceanography. The Institution is home to four interdisciplinary institutes--Ocean and Climate Change, Coastal Ocean, Ocean Life, and Deep Ocean Exploration--a Marine Policy Center, the Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health, and a Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region. WHOI operates three research vessels, the world-famous deep-ocean submersible Alvin, a fleet of remotely operated and autonomous vehicles, several small surface craft, and a suite of oceanographic instruments. The Institution also hosts the U.S. National Deep Submergence Facility. WHOI's shore-based facilities, laboratories, and instrumentation include the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility, the Northeast Atlantis at WHOI dock circa 1931. National Ion Microprobe Facility, a dedicated computed tomography (CT) scanning facility for marine mammal research, and an extensive deep-sea sediment core repository, to name a few. WHOI also has extensive onsite capability for the design, fabrication, and testing of oceanographic instrumentation and moorings.
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Atlantis, the first ship used at WHOI for multidisciplinary ocean research, docked in Woods Hole in the 1950s near the Bigelow Laboratory. (The building was the first built for the new Institution, and was named for WHOI's first director, Henry Bryant Bigelow). The 142-foot, ketch-rigged Atlantis was retired in 1966 after 33 years, but the name was passed to two other WHOI-operated vessels--the now-retired Atlantis II and the current Atlantis, which began work in 1997. More photos of WHOI vessels, past and present, are featured in the 2012 WHOI wall calendar.
Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives
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