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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

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 54

OCEAN is happy to share some good news: Purdue University researchers have invented a white paint with cooling properties.

OCEAN is happy to share some good news: Purdue University researchers have invented a white paint with cooling properties.

Welcome to our 54th issue. OCEAN is your Environmental Newsletter, to be read and shared. Thank you to researcher Rae Taylor-Burns, for her article integrating complex, hemispheric energy systems to provide us with a simple explanation of why we had so many Hurricanes this season. We also have our continuing series of “Safe Suggestions During COVID”. One of the most upsetting articles we debated sharing: an aggressive, water borne amoeba that deteriorates brain tissue. Perhaps this can be balanced by some good news: Purdue University researchers have invented a white paint with cooling properties. Please enjoy this issue, we wrote it for you.

Regards, Gordon Peabody, Editor.

OCEAN 54 ARTICLES

Alternatives to Animal Products 

Getting Paid for Plastic 

Cool Paint Has Even Cooler Purpose 

Kelp Species Surprising Scientists 

Helpful Heat Powered Fans 

Safe Suggestions During COVID (Part 4) 

How Did We Lose 350 Elephants 

Another Broken Record 

Close to Home: Cape Cod 

Unwelcome Amoeba in Our Waters 

OCEAN 46

Magellanic penguins are becoming stuck in their southern feeding grounds, and losing a disproportionate number of females because of it.

Magellanic penguins are becoming stuck in their southern feeding grounds, and losing a disproportionate number of females because of it.

Editor’s Comments:

Though it seems we may not need any more climate records to be broken in the near future, they are appearing nonetheless. Our readers are entitled to the truth about events happening on this tiny planet, yet we still debated sharing the Australia Weather article by OCEAN Researcher Rae Taylor Burns. Another article featured in this issue describes Pacific crab Fishermen asking 30 fossil fuel companies to bear consequences of changes in their fishery. We are also glad to share some good ideas of making plastic bags from sea weed and using nets over outfall culverts to trap plastic before it reaches our Oceans.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

OCEAN 46 Articles

Sea Level Rise

Flooding and fires in Australia

Kelp Farming

Economic cost of storms

LED low energy boat lights

Fishermen sue over climate change

Changing penguin habitats

Invasive trees in Arizona

Catching plastic in drainage pipes

Plastic bags from seaweed

OCEAN 42

Oyster farmer on Martha’s Vineyard begins to farm kelp as a sustainable addition to his farm

Oyster farmer on Martha’s Vineyard begins to farm kelp as a sustainable addition to his farm

Editor’s Comments:

In OCEAN 42, we recommend our “CLOSE TO HOME” article, as we continue to investigate the emerging, Regional, economic potential for Sugar Kelp farming. Along with OCEAN Research Coordinator Jess Hillman, we visited a working, Sugar Kelp farm on Martha’s Vineyard. We agreed it was a “fluke” that three ferry boats broke down that day (fortunately the sea farmers were patient). This issue also introduces our OCEAN 2018 Environmental Invention Award: Making electricity from raindrops. Also in this issue, while Palm Oil agriculture has been growing at 20% annually, no one it seems, has been minding the externalities, such as pesticides.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor.

Ocean 42 Articles

Drilling for energy causing radioactive rivers

Palm oil destroying forests

Flooding in Paris

Invasive flower in Iceland

Cape Town in South Africa running low on water

Preventing bird deaths on windows

Warming winters in Russia

Electricity from raindrops

Kelp added to oyster farm in Martha’s Vineyard

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

OCEAN 32

New “Windtamer” wind energy technology now implemented in Europe

New “Windtamer” wind energy technology now implemented in Europe

Editor’s Comments:

Thank you for reading, sharing and supporting our 32nd issue of OCEAN. This issue explores some remarkable, technical advances aiding the environment: a drone designed to monitor how whales breath differently when no humans are around; new wind energy innovations; and the most remarkable invention, allowing water to be transported in underdeveloped countries, by rolling it as a wheel. Thank you to OCEAN's team of environmental researchers and to you our readers, for reading, sharing and believing in new ideas with us.

~Gordon Peabody, Editor

Ocean 32 Articles

Kelp for biofuel

“Snot-bot” drone observing whales from above

Sustainable shrimp

“Wello” innovation in water transportation

Tracking geomorphology on Cape Cod

New innovation in wind turbines