Map of WHOI Village Facilities

Woods Hole Village Facilities
of the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

1BIGELOW LABORATORY
Offices, labs, and conference room for the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering department, including:
- Acoustic Systems Lab
- Arctic/Marginal Ice Zone Experiment (MIZEX) Signal Processing Lab
- Coastal Ocean Fluid Dynamics Lab
- Instrument Systems Development Lab
- Ocean Acoustics Lab
- Ocean Systems and Moorings Lab
- Oceanographic Systems Lab
- Tracer Release Lab

2ISELIN MARINE FACILITY
Offices and labs for the Facilities and Services, Geology and Geophysics, and Marine Operations departments, including:
- Diving Operations
- Electrical Shop
- Instrument Shop
- Mechanical Shop
- Port Office and Radio Room
- Shipboard Electronics

3SMITH LABORATORY
Offices, labs, and conference room for the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Facilities and Services, Geology and Geophysics, Marine Operations, Physical Oceanography, and Procurement departments, including:
- Advanced Engineering Lab (Acoustic Services Group, Electronics Lab, Engineering Model Shop)
- Alvin Group -- At-sea Operations
- Alvin Group -- Submersible Engineering and Operations Lab
- Carpenter Shop
- Mooring Operations and Engineering Lab
- Ocean Bottom Seismology Lab
- Plant Operations
- Rigging Services Shop
- Security (Guards)
- Security Office (Department of Defense)
- Shipboard Scientific Services
- Stockroom
- Telecommunications

4CO-OP BUILDING - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Weekdays, 8 a.m. to 12 noon, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
- Information Office
- News Office

538 WATER STREET
Offices for the Associate Director for Marine Operations and several members of the Marine Operations department

6REDFIELD LABORATORY
Offices, labs, conference room, and auditorium for the Biology department, including laboratories for the study of phytoplankton, zooplankton, toxicology, vent microbiology, microbial ecology, plankton ecology, molecular ecology, salt marsh ecology, fisheries, deep-sea fishes, jellyfish, and marine mammal acoustics

7SWIFT HOUSE
Offices for the Marine Policy Center and the Biology department, including:
- U.S. Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) Georges Bank Program Office

8CROWELL HOUSE
Offices for the Marine Policy Center, including:
- Paul and Ruth Fye Marine Policy Library

9SHIVERICK HOUSE
Offices and labs for the Biology department, including:
- Marine Animal Bioacoustic Lab

10EXHIBIT CENTER (also known as Endeavour House) - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Daily in summer. Six days a week in late spring and early fall. Weekends in early spring and late fall. Closed in winter.
- Overview video about WHOI
- Full-size model of the personnel sphere of the deep submersible Alvin
- Exhibits and videos about WHOI ships and research
- Gift shop

11CARYN HOUSE
Offices and conference room for the Facilities and Services department and the Marine Policy Center

12NOBSKA HOUSE
Offices for the Human Resources Office and the Facilities and Services department, including:
- Benefits
- Compensation
- Employment
- Employee Relations
- Immigration
- Retirement
- Safety Office

13WALSH COTTAGE
Housing and offices for the Summer Institute of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

14BLAKE BUILDING
Offices for the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering and Publications and Graphic Services departments, including:
- Center for Imaging and Visualization
- Deep Submergence Lab
- Graphic Services (Audio/Visual and Multimedia Services, Publishing, Drafting and Illustration, Photo Lab, and Reproduction)
- Hydrostatic Pressure Test Facility

15METEOR HOUSE
Meeting and function facility for the Director's Office

16CHALLENGER HOUSE
Offices for the Travel Office and the Controller's Office, including:
- General Accounting
- Payroll

17CHALLENGER ANNEX
Offices for the Procurement department


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Prepared by the WHOI Information Office, April 1997.