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OCEAN 55

Tess Holland’s article “Living with Sharks” explores the possibilities and barriers to using drones to spot sharks.

Tess Holland’s article “Living with Sharks” explores the possibilities and barriers to using drones to spot sharks.

I remember Earth Day 1970, as if it were yesterday. I helped found an environmental group at College and trained student teachers to visit High Schools around NJ. With the elevated confidence bestowed on youth, I thought we had solved the problems. I was wrong of course but have continued trying. This issue of OCEAN features a most unusual bottle, in the good news department and in the less good news department we document a decision not to use drones to locate sharks near Cape Cod beaches. Thank you to our Readers who support our efforts. This is your newsletter and can be shared.

Thanks, Gordon Peabody.

OCEAN 55 Articles 

Rooftop Turbines 

Living with Sharks 

Fracking Problems Persist 

Evaluating Meat Alternatives 

Could CO2 be the New Jet Fuel  

Sharing the Beach with Shorebirds

Staying Safe (Part 5)

Better Bottles 

Batteries Made with Air 

Unusual Use for Lobsters 

Strange Looking Satellite 

Wet Weather Down Under 

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 37

The “Water-Seer”, a wind-powered collection system for drinking water, designed by VICI Labs

The “Water-Seer”, a wind-powered collection system for drinking water, designed by VICI Labs

Editor’s Comments:

Difficult problems inspire innovative solutions: “Wind Powered Drinking Water”, the recipient of the 2017 OCEAN Environmental Innovation Award is not what you may think. In our “can of worms department”, one of our lead Researchers has taken an educational look into recent changes in ocean Oxygen levels. As well as hot news from the Arctic; unraveling some of the mysteries of changing Bird migrations; and a continuing exploration of a new economic engine in our coastal economy: Sugar Kelp. A future issue explores Kelp beds reducing wave energy.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 37 Articles

Climate change & bird migrations

Sugar kelp potential as commercial crop

Heat wave in the Arctic

Climate change on Cape Cod

Pesticide use awareness

Are humans eating microplastics?

Wind-powered drinking water

Ocean oxygen depletion

Bolivian locusts destroy crops

Bicycle powered homes

Thousands of fracking spills