501(c)(3) nonprofit · St. Augustine, Florida
The EPV Foundation supports education and research for nonprofit and government organizations — through volunteer hours, equipment donations, coordinated access to boats and field sites, and custom digital and physical solutions built for the people doing the work.
About
EPV Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in St. Augustine, Florida, supporting education and research for nonprofit and government organizations.
The Foundation contributes through volunteer hours, equipment donations, direct financial support, and coordinated access to boats and field sites — and by designing and building custom solutions, both digital and physical, for the organizations it serves. That work spans hardware and software development, fabrication, design, and videography, alongside a range of non-technical support.
The aim is practical: to put tools, systems, and expertise directly into the hands of the people doing education and marine-research work on the ground.
Projects
From full fabrication-lab buildouts to purpose-built marine instruments and robotics, handed over as working capability.
Designed and equipped a university fabrication lab as a complete working environment — SLA and FDM printing (Formlabs, Ultimaker), marine-robotics hardware (Blue Robotics), and power and rotary tooling (Bosch, Dremel), with organized storage and stocked filament and resin. The project included training and implementation, so the lab was handed over as an operational capability rather than a room full of equipment.
A custom incubation system pairing five independently controlled temperature zones with a purpose-designed recirculating flow tank. A brushless motor under digital speed control drives a custom impeller within a matched shroud, producing smooth, precisely adjustable water flow across the incubation environment.
A floating classroom and marine lab, designed and modeled as a mobile, on-the-water platform for hands-on education and field research.
An interactive marine-sciences site built to bring K–12 educational lab material online. It pairs the lab coursework with interactive 3D models students can explore directly, turning hands-on marine science into something classrooms can reach from anywhere. whitneylabonline.org
Marine Robotics & Camera Systems
Archive · MC20 · 2020
The Foundation's pandemic response: an open-source, 3D-printed mask designed around standard 50mm round filters. We supplied a 5-micron filter layer with activated-charcoal material and published the models, so anyone could print a mask and fit it with filters they made themselves or bought off the shelf. Later revisions fit the face more anatomically while using half the printed material.
Supported Organizations
Research, education, heritage, and conservation partners across Northeast Florida and beyond.
Publications
Physics, Experience, and Institutional Design — a six-book series by Peter W. Meyers, published by the Foundation.
Experience, Continuity, and the Fabric of Reality
Argues that integration depth, not configuration complexity, is what separates systems that experience from systems that merely process.
Path Entropy, Dimensional Collapse, and the Structure of Irreversible Record
Proposes that experience rests on irreversible record formation — trails deposited in the medium that motion moves through.
A taxonomy of how consequence is deposited and retained, and why responsibility falls where that record is structurally held.
Resonance, Integration, and the Analog Future
Reads continuity and change through the physics of records — where thermodynamics and coherence meet the waves of technological and economic change.
Digital Capital and the Structure of Economic Recognition
Extends the framework to institutional design, grounding proposals such as the Human Capital Trust in the same logic of retained consequence.
Examines AI's structural condition — activation depth without persistence, complexity without integration — and what it means for how we build and govern it.
All proceeds from the sale of these books support the work of EPV Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Read or buy the series on Apple Books and Amazon.
Papers
An institutional-design proposal developed alongside The Ownership Gap, available openly on SSRN.
Browse the full catalog on PhilPapers and SSRN.
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