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

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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

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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

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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

OCEAN 61

The editor’s choice article “Unique Concept in Green Energy” by researcher Abigail Eilar, explores the use of sand batteries for green energy.

OCEAN 61 shares an inside look at some of our Interns this year. We also recommend an unusual article regarding fish falling from the sky and the explanation leaves me unconvinced, my opinion. Living on Cape Cod, the concept of a “Sand Battery” also caught my attention. OCEAN newsletter never has advertising and never will, as it is self-funded, to be shared by our readers and their friends. Thank you to our Associate Editor Catie Urquhart and Research Coordinator Jessica Hillman and thanks to you, our readers for enjoying and sharing our efforts. Safe Harbor is a small, interdisciplinary environmental consulting group, located on Duck Creek Marsh, in Wellfleet on Cape Cod.

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Algae Blooms on Cape Cod

Healthy Flour

Deadly Rain in Death Valley

Intern Feature

Editor’s Final Thoughts

OCEAN 61 Articles

New Clam in the Neighborhood

"No Mow" Lawns

Crabs Living in a Time Warp

When Fish Actually Fell out of the Sky

Unique Concept in Green Energy

OCEAN 60

In Bird Safe Glass, Catie Urquhart, shares the importance of smart bird safe glass.

Editor’s Comments: OCEAN 60 is published for you, our readers, curious about innovative problem solving and interested in the environmental issues we share. Healthy communities need healthy resources, especially coastal towns. Right here on Cape Cod we are about to begin an extraordinary estuary restoration (See Tess Holland’s article on the Herring River). Abigail Eilar writes about a troubling (for me anyway), mysterious and a bit spooky, dolls washing onto Gulf Coast beaches. I am reachable for your comments at gordonpeabody@gmail.com. Advertising-free OCEAN is the environmental education publication of Safe Harbor Environmental, a small inter-disciplinary consulting group in Wellfleet on Cape Cod. Please feel free to share this issue with friends and colleagues. Thank you to our readers for your continuing support.

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Innovative Bike Paths

Plant Plankton Changes?

Herring River Estuary

Bird Safe Glass

The Calm Before The Storm

OCEAN 60 Articles

Recycled Sports

Grass Bans

Washed Up Dolls

Foam in Polluted Waters

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 looks into radioactive discharge.

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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

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OCEAN 57

Researcher Eliza Fitzgerald to looks into the ocean heating up in “Tropical Fish Found in Massachusetts Area”

This environmental education e-newsletter is written, with no advertisements or solicitation. In this issue I recommend the 3 video links you will discover, documenting a degree of inspiration we can all use. When it comes to drinking water, Cape Cod is spoiled, with some of the cleanest, sand filtered rainwater in New England. That being said, Researcher Lindsey Stanton discovered the unpleasant truth about the footprints of a “Miracle” firefighting chemical we use. New England sea water spends the entire year, within a very narrow temperature range. It takes a lot of energy to alter sea water temperature, so when news came in about “Our” ocean heating up, we asked Researcher Eliza Fitzgerald to look into it. Our articles are kept short, with references and links for more information. Thank you to our readers for their support in sharing OCEAN. 

Thanks, Gordon Peabody, OCEAN Editor.

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OCEAN 57 Articles

Keep Healthy, Stay Informed

Know What we are Drinking 

Quiet Fisherman on Cape Cod Save Baby Scallops 

Can we Bring Back the Herring? 

The Road to Recovery: The Northern Redbelly Dace 

Innovative Ecosystem Research on Light 

Are Our Feet Heading into the Fire? 

Small Stuff, Big Problem 

Atmospheric CO2 Entering Oceans 

Will Maine Shrimp Sink or Swim? 

New Technology for Drinking Salt Water 

Tropical Fish Found in Massachusetts Area 

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OCEAN 56

OCEAN Researcher, Lindsey Stanton, provides information on the plight of Vaquitas as researched and written about by Associate Editor Samantha Thywissen in the article “Vaquita & the Sea of Cortez”.

This remarkable issue of OCEAN 56 features our annual, Environmental Initiative Awards, this year going to two events, which we felt were profound, perhaps not in scope but with inspiration. We are also sharing Associate Editor Samantha’s well researched, heartfelt article on the extraordinary losses of Porpoises from Sea of Cortez By-Catch. We also are introducing new researcher Catherine Urquhart, who suggests we take note of troubling recent cloud tops, breaking records for heights and temperatures. We have written this newsletter for you our readers, with no advertising or solicitation, it only has value to us when we share it. Thank you for your support.

Fair winds, Gordon Peabody, OCEAN Editor.

OCEAN 56 Articles

Piecing Together the Microplastics Problem 

Vaquita & the Sea of Cortez

Endocrine Disruptor Used in Antimicrobial Products 

Japanese Cherry Blossom Bloom is Earliest in 1,200 Years 

2021 OCEAN Environmental Initiative Awards 

Staying Safe 

Red Flag in the Upper Atmosphere

Paving With Better Intentions 

The Uphill Battle With Microplastics 

Breakthrough Science Restores Sight Using Algae

Note From the Editor