The Zephyr Education Foundation
The Zephyr Education Foundation is a non-profit Ocean Science and Technology education program based in Woods Hole, MA. We host school field trips in Woods Hole in which we go on a hands-on scientific cruise in Vineyard Sound replicating the cruises performed by the laboratories here. Students participate in deploying and recovering marine biological and oceanographic instrumentation. Trips include a live underwater video feed from our towed video camera, dredging marine specimens, deploying an acoustically releasable mooring, towing plankton nets and other shipboard activities. We also tour some the the laboratories and docks in Woods Hole and discuss the research projects currently under investigation here.

Latest news:
Our April Vacation Week program out of New Bedford was a terrific success. Thanks to our grant from the National Grid Foundation, we took five groups of kids to experience marine biology and oceanographic studies. And thanks to our fantastic side scan sonar donation from EdgeTech (W. Wareham, MA) we were able to find the wreck of the Rehoboth. (below)
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Click on the icon above to view a short video from our on-board microscope which is displayed on a large screen TV.
We just moved into new offices at 97 Water Street, Woods Hole! It is about 500 feet past the drawbridge on the right. This is where classes should meet us to start their day.


Check out clips from two recent field trips on Vineyard Sound 
and one wet lab session on
 YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2RHYmMxW24&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKp1zt75txY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
7CWZ-WNHMvs&feature=youtu.be
Also look at some great photos 
from Portsmouth Abbey's trip:

http://www.portsmouthabbey.org/

page/5215/2980/


Click below to see a short 
movie showing the excitement 
of our trips:
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Drifter Project:
This spring classes deployed drifting 
buoys provided by Jim Manning of 
NOAA. They were deployed in Vine-
yard Sound between Martha's 
Vineyard and Nobska Point. We 
have been following their tracks, 
all different throughout southern New England waters.  
Get news from the drifter project at
http://coseenow.net/mate/2011/10/
14/drifter-newsletter-8/

Track our drifters tracks at:
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/drifter/
drift_mme_2011_1.html 
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/drifter/
drift_gnbt_2011_1.html 
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/drifter/
drift_pjp2_2011_1.html 
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/drifter/
drift_sdhs_2011_1.html 
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/drifter/
drift_sshs_2011_1.html
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/drifter/
drift_glcs_2013_2.html

Or, click below to view the tracks of 
the drifters.
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Class opening dredge on the back deck
Click above for a back deck video clip.
Through collaboration with research institutions in Woods Hole, 
including the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, we engage 
the class in the techniques, results and relevance of current 
research projects.

The Zephyr Education Foundation believes that while some students may 

become professional scientists, all will become voters whether they are 

teachers, school administrators, governmental officials or pursue other areas 

of interest. All can benefit from a hands-on program that illustrates the 

diversity, excitement and importance of the marine environment.


Zephyr Education Foundation, Inc. is recognized as a non-profit organization 

under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.