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 On our day three adventure we traveled to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. We met with three amazing people who showed us their work. We started with meeting Jim Flynn, the head of fundraising for WHOI. We got a debrief of what our day was going to look like while also learning about the organization.       The idea for WHOI all started in the early 1920s. The first of a series of conferences between Frank R. Lillie, then the  MBL  director, and Wickliffe Rose, then president of the Rockefeller Foundation's General Education Board. The institute then took off in the 1930s leading to the present day with over 1000 employees. WHOI is funded by an 80% government grant, where 10% is fundraising and the other 10% is from their endowment. New funding support of the institute is NASA. NASA is helping fun WHOI because of the recent discoveries of water on other planets in our solar system. At WHOI it costs an annual 200 Million dollars to run eve...
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