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Woods Hole, uninc. village (1990 pop. 1,080) and seaport in the town of Falmouth, Barnstable co., SE Mass., at the southwestern extremity of Cape Cod. It is the departure point for nearby island resorts (Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket). Woods Hole is the site of an important marine biology laboratory and of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, at Woods Hole, Mass.; est. 1930. In addition to oceanographic research, it conducts important work in meteorology, biology, geology, and geophysics. ..... Click the link for more information. . A fish hatchery and aquarium and a U.S. Coast Guard station are also there. |
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| While researching magnetotactic bacteria's role in the environmental cycling of iron and sulfur, Sheri Simmons of the Woods Hole (Mass. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is the world's largest, private non-profit research institution for marine sciences. Scientists from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, have reported on a potentially sinister synergy, showing that a combination of three common pollutants--bromoform, chloroform, and tetrachloroethylene--alters nerve cell development, whereas the toxicants alone or in pairs do not. |
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