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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 58

OCEAN is the environmental education publication of Safe Harbor, a small environmental consulting collaborative, on Duck Creek Marsh in Wellfleet, on Cape Cod. Our researchers always surprise me with their discoveries: Lindsay Stanton documenting the 42,000 year old reversal of our magnetic field from an ancient buried tree; Tess Holland looked at the counter-intuitive concept of “Ropeless” Lobstering; OCEAN Associate Editor Catherine Urquhart’s troubling research about potential Radioactive discharge into Cape Cod Bay reminded me of when I attended College, where I was the only student using their Isotope Pit, researching biological magnification of Radioactive Isotopes between phytoplankton and zooplankton. Radioactivity doesn't disappear, it Bioaccumulates. Bioaccumulation of Radioactivity was not debatable at the time but maybe things have changed? OCEAN belongs to you, our readers and you have our permission to share. Regards, Gordon Peabody, OCEAN Editor

In Too Close to Home, researcher Catherine Urquhart

In Too Close to Home, researcher Catherine Urquhart looks into radioactive discharge.

OCEAN 58 Articles 

Safe Harbor Slope Stabilization used in UK

Counterintuitive “Ropeless” Lobstering 

Cargo Ships That Can Kite Surf 

Oyster Partnership Cleans up Hudson 

Too Close to Home 

Got Arachnophobia?

Healthier Cape Cod 

Feather in the Wind 

Impacts of Light on Insects 

Alaska Experiences Climate Whiplash 

Extraordinary Discovery in Ancient Buried Tree

OCEAN 50

Lucy Hughes, a student at the University of Sussex, has received the prestigious James Dyson Award for designing a plastic alternative made out a fish waste.

Lucy Hughes, a student at the University of Sussex, has received the prestigious James Dyson Award for designing a plastic alternative made out a fish waste.

Editor’s Comments:

This 50th Issue of OCEAN commemorates an idea I had ten years ago: to create an innovative, environmental e-newsletter, linking us together through our shared challenges. Our readership now reaches about 5,000 readers worldwide. With this hallmark issue of OCEAN 50, I am renewing my commitment to be self-funded, with no advertising. Thank you to our readers, for your continuing support, in sharing our new and newer ideas. Your comments are always welcome. Thank you for reading and sharing OCEAN.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 50 articles

Wind Energy Update

Lobsters and Whales

A Better Oyster

Vertical Kayak Storage

Cape Cod Dead Zone

England Halts Fracking

Flood Zone Communities

Green Roofs for Honeybees

Microplastic Solutions

OCEAN 35

Fisheries in Maine are attempting to create a new fishery out of the invasive Green Crab

Fisheries in Maine are attempting to create a new fishery out of the invasive Green Crab

Editor’s Comments:

OCEAN 35 shares some intriguing environmental concepts: People in Maine are starting to eat invasive crabs; NYC is experimenting with old toilets to grow oysters; someone developed a thermal powered piston for controlling greenhouse ventilation and why has it taken so long to come up with edible six pack rings? You will also find breaking updates on previous articles: Bees; Hand Sanitizers and Plastic Microbeads. And we also took a closer look at the 1,000 year rainfall event in Louisiana.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor of OCEAN

Ocean 35 Articles

Edible six pack rings

Oyster habitat restoration in New York

Greener Greenhouses

Invasive Green Crabs in Maine

CO2 increasing in atmosphere

Triclosan update

France ban on disposable plates

Microbeads

Oklahoma earthquakes

Louisiana 1,000 year flood

Bee-kind update