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OCEAN 68

Gordon Peabody, OCEAN’s Editor

This 68th issue of OCEAN introduces a very unusual article on “Bio-Receptive Concrete”, on page 7 by Billie Grimshaw, one of Safe Harbor’s summer interns. We also are sharing the extraordinary video of a Whale gobbling a kayaker and introducing an innovative role for mussels; and Liam O’Hara’s micro wind turbine, which is sweeping Europe. OCEAN is the environmental education publication of Safe Harbor, a small interdisciplinary environmental consulting group on Cape Cod. There is no advertising or solicitation in OCEAN, because I wanted to have an environmental publication with no expectations, other than it be shared by friends, with friends. Thank you for your support.

-Gordon Peabody, Editor.

What’s inside OCEAN 68

What Not to Catch

What are the Odds?

Flexing its Mussels: Nature’s Filter

Gone With the Wind

Don’t Release Your Balloons

Thank you!

Gone in a Flutter: Butterfly Populations on the Decline

Historical Rain Events Are Becoming More Generational

Vanishing Islands: Sea Level Rise Imperils Small Nation

Bioplastics: Turning the Page on Plastic

Bioreceptive Concrete: Living With Urban Moss

OCEAN 67

Gordon Peabody, OCEAN’s Editor

OCEAN is a self-funded educational publication of Safe Harbor Environmental Services, a small inter disciplinary consulting group on Cape Cod. OCEAN will never have advertisements or solicitations. In this month’s issue we are trying something different. We feature an article from a scientist friend I reconnected with about her real-time work with plankton. I am a plankton geek and am so grateful for Karen’s work (page 4). Thank you to our readers for their support in sharing OCEAN with friends, and a special shout out to the man who stopped me in a Cape Cod parking lot to say he recognized me and wanted to thank me for OCEAN!

-Gordon Peabody, Editor.

What’s inside OCEAN 67

If You Can’t Beat ‘em, Eat Them: Green Crabs

Dying Fish in the Gulf of “Wherever”

Herring River: Pain for Gain

Role of a Sentinal Species: Saltmarsh Sparrow

Changes in Our Family:

Surprise Intern from Dartmouth College

Thank you!

Carbon Seems to be Disappearing Under the Sea?

100 Year Ocean Waves Shut Down Peru ’s Coastal Ports

NOAA Tool Measures Water Quality for Oyster Farms

Close to Home... Scientist: Karen Stamieszkin

Quarter Century Floods Show Up in Europe

Disaster Sites Use Debris to Make Bricks

OCEAN 66

Gordon Peabody, OCEAN’s Editor

We are living in changing times. A recent, super intense Hurricane that explosively grew overnight, has been referred to as a “Thousand Year Storm” destroying coastal Florida on the heels of a previous Hurricane that also triggered historic upslope flooding hundreds of miles away from the coast in the Appalachian Mountains. The scale and scope of some of our changes are challenging to perceive and impossible to prepare for. OCEAN is the free Educational Publication of Safe Harbor Environmental, a small interdisciplinary consulting group on Cape Cod. This is your advertising free publication, please feel free to share OCEAN with your friends. This issue introduces recent Interns, who are paid and can receive college credit. Thanks for your support of OCEAN.

-Gordon Peabody, Editor

What’s inside OCEAN 66

New Things Under the Sun

Craft Beer from Bees

Discovery of Cocaine in Sharks

1000-Year Storms on the Rise

Is The Possibility of Cod Extinction an Anomaly or a Trend

Meet Our Interns!

Thank you!

Can Telescopes Look Back in Time?

Unexpected Catch For A New England Fisherman!

Innovative Ocean Colling Concept

Megaflo, Innovative Australian Highway Drainage System

Experimenting With Innovative Artificial Reefs

Protecting Your Phone Battery With Crab Shells?

OCEAN 65

The editor’s choice article “Innovative Beehive Business Wins Prize” by researcher Alexandra Akmaeva, celebrates students’ Innovative Bee Keeping business model.

My favorite article in OCEAN 65 is about the COP28 summit in Dubai, where students from Northfleet Technology College, a secondary school in Kent, won significant recognition and $150.000 reward for their innovative Bee Keeping business model. Thank you Alexandra Akmaeva. Another Fav but nerdy article describes new research on protist symbionts associated with zooplankton….double fascination for me and thank you Lindsey Stanton. Liam O’Hara’s research on a wind energy system costing just a fraction of other wind energy systems is worth reading and I recommend the short video. This issue of OCEAN belongs to you, our readers and we encourage you to share it. OCEAN will never contain advertising or solicitations.

-Gordon Peabody, Editor

OCEAN 65 Articles

Back to the Future

Getting Crabby

Better Idea Department: Spinning the Narrative

Printable Sea Wall Department

Living Shoreline Reduces Cape Erosion

Understanding Longshore Sediment Transport

Thank You!

A New Look at Bird Mortality in America

Bad Medicine at Tasmanian Salmon Farms

Innovative Beehive Business Wins Prize

Zooplankton Interactions We Never Knew

Flax Seed to Phone Cases… Who Knew?

The Continuing Challenge Between Birds and City Glass

Recycled Bottles Turned into Beach Sand

OCEAN 64

The editor’s choice article “Waste Water to Beer?” by researcher Abigail Eilar, explores new methods being adopted for brewing beer.

OCEAN 64 Our readers often ask where OCEAN comes from? This is the environmental education publication of Safe Harbor Environmental Services, an interdisciplinary environmental consulting group on Cape Cod. OCEAN is your publication. Please share it with friends who share your interests. This issue has a few unusual articles, not the least of which documents a snake falling from the sky, onto a woman mowing her yard, after which, she was viciously attacked not only by the snake but also by the hawk which had been carrying the snake! And check out our “Wastewater To Beer”.

-Gordon Peabody, Editor

OCEAN 64 Articles

Snakes Falling From the Sky?

Nature Finds Use for Plastic Trash

Can Seaweed Replace Lobsters in Maine?

Waste Water to Beer?

Editor’s Final Thoughts

A Cry for Kelp

Migration Changes Create Stress

Unusual Item Report: Gravity Batteries

Giant Hailstones

Battle of Beachfront Bureaucrats

OCEAN 63

Samantha Thywissen and Malcolm Fano were married on Cape Cod this summer, at a ceremony officiated by OCEAN Editor Gordon Peabody.

OCEAN 63 is the “Editor’s Issue”, providing some insight into who we are and a pet peeve from one of our first issues, regarding an ongoing Cape Cod problem. We have also included other articles from our Research Team, including one from our youngest but passionate researcher who lived with Manatees this summer. OCEAN is an advertising free, Environmental Education Publication, self-funded by Safe Harbor Environmental Services, a collaborative environmental consulting group on Cape Cod. Download and share back issues at WWW.SafeHarborEnv.com.

-Gordon Peabody, Editor

OCEAN 63 Articles

New Scrabble Word: Invasivorism

Not Sci-Fi Dept: Gigantic Snails

Living with Endangered Giants in Belize

Editor’s Final Thoughts

Saving a Lake in the Sky

Summer Intern Profiles

OCEAN Wedding

Editor’s Pet Peeve Department