List three of the pre-eminent oceanographic institutions in the United States; include where they are located and their
academic association. What will be an ideal response?
In the United States, the three pre-eminent oceanographic institutions are the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, founded in 1930 (and associated with
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the neighboring Marine Biological
Laboratory, founded in 1888); the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, founded in
La Jolla, California, and affiliated with the University of California in 1912, and the
Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, founded in 1949.
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