Upcoming Events

Jeff Orrock, NOAA's National Weather Service Sponsored by: NOAA This will be held virtually. Register here:  https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8881742089170204171 NOAA launches weather balloons twice a day across the entire country. Weather balloons, also known as sounding balloons, are a special type of high-altitude balloon carrying instruments to near the edge of space. They send back information on…

Amy Bower, WHOI Physical Oceanographer, Skip Finley, Author and historian, and Tobias Vanderhoop, Aquinnah Wampanoag Storyteller Host: Dr. Véronique LaCapra, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sponsored by: WHOI This will be held virtually. Register now.  Space is limited: https://whoi.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lKzb4E-9S1WBnRwl5NBvUQ The ocean has been a source of inspiration throughout human history. Where did we come from? What’s…

Highfield Hall Virtual Supper Club Series this fall! Highfield Hall’s next Supper Club will feature guest speaker Dr. James Bellingham, Director of WHOI’s Center for Marine Robotics on October 8 at 6 p.m. Jim is a pioneer in the development of autonomous marine robots.  He has led and participated in research expeditions around the world from…

This virtual conference, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and co-organized by PIs Fadel Adib (MIT Media Lab) and Seth Zippel (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), will bring together ocean researchers and practitioners with computer scientists and engineers, as well as stakeholders from industry, foundations, and public policy. It aims to highlight the biggest challenges facing the ocean and brainstorm…

THE WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: Will be holding a Perennial Plant Sale on Saturday, October 10 from 9 a.m. to noon. Just like the library’s time-honored Spring Plant Sale (which was not held this year for the first time in decades), all the plants will be donated by local gardeners, so the plants are perfectly…