February News

Our scientist and Senior Educator, Evan Howard, will give a poster session describing our Boston Lounsbery Foundation program at the 2016 Ocean Sciences meeting in New Orleans, February 21-26. The poster is titled:  “Boat-Based Education for Boston Area Public Schools: Encouraging Marine Science and Technology Literacy and Awareness of the Coastal “Backyard” Here’s a photo […]


January News

We are pleased to announce we just received a significant grant from the National Grid Foundation to help support our Ocean Science and Technology field trip program. The funds will be used to help subsidize vessel costs and pay our educators to enable us to continue to provide the amazing ‘cruise’ for students, while keeping […]


December News

We just received a grant from the Woods Hole Sea Grant Program to bring our Interactive Topographic Modeling System (AR Sandbox) to local schools for a week at a time. We train teachers and provide lesson plans for middle and high school classes. There is no charge for this program. Click here for our video […]


November News

We have just completed our field trip season. Over 2000 students participated in our on-the-water program. We are also active with our Interactive Topographic Modeling Systems. Please contact us if you are interested in getting one. We also bring our portable system to schools for a week at a time. Here is our system at […]


Interactive Topographic Modeling System

Developed by a team led by Oliver Kreylos at UC Davis, the Augmented Reality Sandbox is an incredible interactive system for learning about topographic mapping, the effect of sea level rise, storm surge, and  tsunamis on coastal environments, and other water-related processes. We have a permanent one in our office that all students get to […]


September News

We are ready to go into full swing with our fall schedule of hosting field trips for middle, high school and colleges. Among the participating schools this fall are Wellesley College, College of the Holy Cross, Stonehill College, Gordon College, Newton North HS, Falmouth Academy, Our Sisters School, Bay View Academy, Hathaway Brown (Shaker Heights, […]