Scientists, students, and engineers deploy instruments to measure groundwater responses to coastal storms to understand interactions between ocean tides, surge, and waves, dune and beach evolution, and inland flooding. Image Credit: Steve Elgar/WHOI.

At its founding in 1930, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution joined a thriving ocean science community in the village of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. At the time, the world was only a little more than 50 years removed from the first efforts to systematically study the ocean. Today, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the world’s leading, independent, non-profit organization dedicated to ocean research, exploration, and education. Our scientists and engineers push the boundaries of knowledge about the ocean to reveal its impacts on our planet and our lives.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution offers the following areas of expertise.

Contacts

Technical Representatives

Dr. Britt Raubenheimer

Senior Scientist, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering

britt@whoi.edu

Last Updated: January 29, 2020

Administrative Contacts

Dr. Richard Murray

Deputy Director and Vice President for Science and Engineering

rickmurray@whoi.edu

Last Updated: June 25, 2021