Woodwell Climate Research Center

[6] The plan for developing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was drafted at the Woods Hole Research Center in the late 1980s by Woodwell and Kilaparti Ramakrishna.

[7] In 2005, Dr. John P. Holdren became the director and he continued to lead the organization until he was appointed as President Obama's science advisor in 2009.

Holdren returned to WHRC as a senior advisor in 2017 after President Obama left office.

The Center's Gilman Ordway Campus, located on Cape Cod in the town of Falmouth, was completed in 2003.

[11] In 2023, Woodwell received a $5 million grant and fellowship from Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, to develop an open-access resource that will use satellite data and artificial intelligence in order to track Arctic permafrost thaw in near real-time.