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OCEAN 69

Gordon Peabody, OCEAN’s Editor

I have been publishing Safe Harbor’s educational e-newsletter OCEAN for oh so many years now, that it has come time for a change. OCEAN 70 will mark our final issue. I like to think I have made some small differences, in good ways, with the environmental problems we all share. Financial considerations were never important to me, and I have never asked for support or carried advertising. These things have changed, as costs for our 5,000 reader email service are now over $1,200 a year and the research costs have expanded likewise, beyond that.

My own research has determined that Ocean Storms are combinations of Mass and Energy. Everyone seems to be drawn to controlling mass but as I began sorting out one from the other, I discovered that when we control storm energy, that the energy will control the mass. Our final issue will contain a few of my favorite and most effective systems that I have developed at Safe Harbor.

-Gordon Peabody, Editor.

What’s inside OCEAN 69

Innovation in Kelp Farming

Rivers of rock

After a Century of Silence, the Herring River Begins to Wake

When the Bay Runs Low on Breath

The Future of Sargassum

Thank you!

Alaska’s First Ever Heat Wave Warns of 90 Degree Temperatures

Warmest UK waters have new species!

Goldfish in Rain Barrels: A Natural Method of Pest Control

Acidity Bares Its Jagged Teeth

A Bright Future

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?