An Evening of Radio Storytelling in Woods Hole

Atlantic Public Media will present a free public listening event to celebrate the creation of new audio work by the students from the fourth Transom Story Workshop.

Cape Cod Crafts: Flying Pig Pottery

The latest addition to Potters' Alley.

Tessa Morgan of Flying Pig Pottery, located at 410 Woods Hole Road, got started with her art at an early age, and kept up with it through the years. “I started working with clay as a 15 year old,” she says. “When I moved to Woods Hole after college, I waitressed at the Fishmonger, and the owner, Frances Bueller, let me set up a pottery studio in her basement.” For a long time, though, pottery remained a private hobby, as Morgan focused on other goals and priorities. “I always wanted to be a children's book illustrator,” she says, “but was not confidant enough as a young person to pursue that career. In my late 20s I went to art school and got a degree in illustration. I worked in that field for about 10 years, but found that the stress of …

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Sara Mannal

2:18 pm on Friday, April 26, 2013

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Rail Service Returns to Cape Cod with Woods Hole Bus Link

"Visitors can expect a train leaving South Station on Friday nights and round-trip trains leaving Saturday and Sunday mornings and returning at the end of each day," according to the website for the new CapeFlyer service between Boston and Hyannis.

Memorial Day weekend will see the return of Boston-Cape Cod rail service after more than 20 years, according to an announcement from the Steamship Authority. The new CapeFlyer train, an extension of the MBTA, will make a stop at Buzzards Bay, where Steamship Authority passengers can board a connecting bus to Woods Hole. The final stop is downtown Hyannis, where Hy-Line passengers can catch their boats to the Vineyard (beginning May 4) and Nantucket. According to the website capeflyer.com, the schedule and fares will be posted "soon" for weekend service through Labor Day: "Visitors can expect a train leaving South Station on Friday nights and round-trip trains leaving Saturday and Sunday mornings and returning at the end of each day." …

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Children's School of Science Registration is Open

For the past one hundred summers, the Children’s School of Science in Woods Hole has encouraged children to develop their love and appreciation of science with hands-on activities, frequent field trips and lots of time spent enjoying nature.

An Evening of Radio Storytelling in Woods Hole

Atlantic Public Media will present a free public listening event to celebrate the creation of new audio work by students at the Transom Story Workshop.

UPDATE: Car Accident on Woods Hole Road Kills One

A one-car accident on Woods Hole Road killed William W. Vose of Woods Hole early this morning.

A one-car accident on 462 Woods Hole Road, ejected the car's driver, Willam W. "Wes" Vose, at around 1:30 this morning. According to a press release Vose lost control of the car that witnesses described as going well above the speed limit. Vose was alone at the time of the crash. The car caught on fire after the accident and people present at the scene pulled Vose a safe distance away from the burning car. The car was fully engulfed in flames when rescuers arrived. Vose was transported to Falmouth Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Police believe speed was a contributing factor to the crash.     Check back to Falmouth Patch for more details.

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Woods Hole Group to host COASTSWEEP Clean-Up at Town Neck Beach

Volunteers are welcome to come out and help clean up the beach.

Woods Hole Group will host a COASTWEEP beach clean-up at Town Neck Beach in Sandwich on Saturday, October 13 from 1-3 PM.  Volunteers and community groups are invited to participate in the event. The clean-up is part of the COASTWEEP program, the Commonwealth’s annual coastal cleanup program organized by the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and the Urban Harbors Institute of the University of Massachusetts Boston. For more than twenty years, Massachusetts volunteers have scoured beaches, river banks, marshes, and the seafloor to pick up trash and record information about the types of trash being collected. Each year, more than 2,000 COASTSWEEP volunteers collected several tons of trash from beaches, marshes, rivers, ponds, …

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Newest Navy Research Vessel Is Named Neil Armstrong

Ship will be operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

By WHOI Media Office - Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the nation’s newest research vessel will be named the R/V Neil Armstrong, after the renowned astronaut and the first man to set foot on the moon. The ship will be operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). “We are honored,” said WHOI President and Director Susan Avery. “Neil Armstrong is an American hero, whose ‘small step’ provided humanity with a new perspective on our planet. When he stood on the moon and looked back at the Earth, he saw mostly ocean – the last unexplored frontier on Earth. The R/V Neil Armstrong will carry on its namesake’s legacy of exploration, enabling the next generation of oceanographic science and discovery.”  Armstrong was a Navy …

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New Website Invites Public to Help Identify Seafloor Life and Habitats

Interactive science on the bottom of the sea.

By WHOI Media Office - The public is invited to help identify objects they see in images of the seafloor through a new interactive website called “Seafloor Explorer.” The result of a unique collaboration between oceanographers studying seafloor habitats, Web programmers and social scientists, Seafloor Explorer (www.seafloorexplorer.org) launched September 13. The team has more than 40 million images, but are launching the site with a preliminary set of 100,000 – all of them taken by HabCam, a habitat mapping underwater vehicle.  HabCam was developed and built by the HabCam group, which comprises marine biologists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) as well as fishermen and other scientists.  The Seafloor …

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NASA/WHOI Voyage Set to Explore Link Between Sea Saltiness and Climate

The cutting-edge expedition will contribute to the study of the earth's climate.

By WHOI Media Office - A NASA-sponsored expedition is set to sail to the North Atlantic's saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean's upper layers and how these variations are related to shifts in rainfall patterns around the planet. The research voyage is part of a multi-year mission, dubbed the Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS), which will deploy multiple instruments in different regions of the ocean. The new data also will help calibrate the salinity measurements NASA's Aquarius instrument has been collecting from space since August 2011. SPURS scientists aboard the research vessel Knorr leave Sept. 6 from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, …

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