carbon sequestration

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

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Jenifer Wilcox, the author of a new book on capturing carbon from the atmosphere. She also has a 14-min TED talk about the topic.

Jenifer Wilcox, the author of a new book on capturing carbon from the atmosphere. She also has a 14-min TED talk about the topic.

Editor’s Comments:

This 47th issue offers some of our research on close to home and far away issues, including insights into unexpected mysteries and some unique innovations. We have also included a section on “CHASING ZERO”, tracking sometimes mysterious changes in Carbon news. We are also grateful for recent dispatches: from Dr. Robert Mayer Arzuaga, from the University of Puerto Rico, who is restoring Hurricane ravaged beaches in Puerto Rico and had some great news about the Biomimicry sand restoration system they were using, which was developed on Cape Cod; and from Keegan Burke, previous Safe Harbor Intern, who is now waking up at 3:30 AM and carrying Bear Spray, in Legendary Yellowstone National Park.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 47 Articles

Carbon Sequestration

Trash wheel in Baltimore

Human plastic consumption through filter feeders

EU bans single-use plastics

Warming water off Maine

“Avocado plastic” innovation

Hydrogen powered trains

Seabird and dolphin deaths in Peru

Disappearing baby penguins

Hurricanes relocating

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The California Sand Fire destroyed thousands of homes and acres of land this summer

The California Sand Fire destroyed thousands of homes and acres of land this summer

Editor’s comments:

OCEAN 34 celebrates 10 years of publishing OCEAN environmental e-newsletter. This is your newsletter and our success has only been possible through your support and sharing of each issue. Our main article on African Dust may seem an eccentric indulgence of research, until some surprising pieces begin falling together. Using foot power to do your laundry and generating electricity by flushing your toilet, showcase innovative energy developments. Water is a defining element in our World, especially when it vanishes and we take a closer look at two drought events: One contributed to the unprecedented CA wildfires and the other generated ecological stress in the Amazon.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 34 Articles

Amazon Carbon Sink

Hydroelectric power innovation

California Sand Fire

Foot-powered laundry

Unmanned aerial vehicles in wildlife research

Toxic Algae Blooms in Florida

Summer heat on Cape Cod

Traveling African dust