Woods Hole, Mass., institute to use over $100 million in funds on ocean project.

Byline: Aaron Gouveia

Aug. 24--WOODS HOLE -- The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution accepted the largest single monetary award in its history yesterday. It will create a system of offshore, remotely controlled, ocean observatories.

The $97.7 million from the National Science Foundation and Joint Oceanographic Institution's Ocean Observatories Initiative, along with $10 million from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, will be used to build and deploy a system of buoys, linked to stations on the ocean floor. The stations will house unmanned underwater vehicles controlled remotely by scientists, which will collect data and transmit information back to …