OCEAN 45

The Mid-Atlantic coast after Hurricane Florence, a thousand year hurricane, whipped through the area.

Editor’s Comments:

Our original goal in publishing OCEAN newsletter, was to share solutions for shared environmental problems. Our "Close to Home" article on page 3 is a successful example of our initial goal. We were pleasantly surprised this fall, when our NOAA contact informed us that the successful "Biomimicry" sand restoration system we developed on the Ocean beaches of Truro, Cape Cod, was now being used to restore Hurricane ravaged dunes in Puerto Rico! Other articles share intriguing reuse of once problematic waste in the Almond industry, why some algae becomes toxic, an in depth look at our larger storms and how to "de-orbit" space junk.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor.

Ocean 45 Articles

Manmade space debris

Puffin decline

New use for almond product waste

Storms in Venice

Biomimicry on Cape Cod dune

Harmful algal blooms in Pacific

14-year oil leak in the Gulf

1000-year hurricane on East Coast, USA

Storm surges

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OCEAN 43

Why do marine animals eat plastic? Check out article 11 to find out.

Editor’s Comments:

In OCEAN 43, we are proud to share a fascinating idea from the Himalayas and another, “Close to Home” innovative idea for long term coastal erosion management, a hybrid system of living shoreline and ballasted coir fiber. We also find it difficult to imagine Northwest Seafood being able to contain everything they are discovering in them (see Opioids in Northwest Mussels, page 6) and from OCEAN 41 “81 types of drugs and chemicals found in Puget Sound Salmon”). OCEAN 44 will link this article with the micro-plastics being found in Mussels. Plastics are not going away and according to OCEAN Researcher Brigid McKenna, (page 6) when consumed by sea birds, they tragically cannot be digested. Oh, and now, micro plastics have been discovered in our drinking water. (page 3).

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 43 Articles

Salmon in Washington

Contaminated drinking water

Gulf oil spill cleanup

Opioids in mussels

Hawaii protects coral reefs

Eating packaging

Dangerous VOC’s without airflow

Clean water: manmade glaciers

Herring River Estuary restoration

Seaweed as cow feed

Why marine animals eat plastic

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