This was basically some stuff about a beach clean up. I think when the items that were found in the clean up were listed, it sort of gives us a good idea of what ends up there.
"Cigarette butts, plastic bags, water bottles, Styrofoam chunks, Flip-flops, medicine bottles, netting, thousands of random pieces of plastic. Nobody's picture of paradise. Yet, day after day, it finds its way onto otherwise beautiful South Florida beaches.Cleaning it all up just about requires a small army."
2. Tides over time
This was a story from someone's point of view. It has some good details about the change of the water and the tides over the course of decades.
Some statistics I could use is like how they were able to see what was a 3 foot fish only being about 18 inches. They were excited to see the big fish, but compared to the past, they were about 75% smaller. This article talks about the changes in the ocean and how some places have disappeared or not appear unhealthy because of human causes.
3. Another huge Clean-Up
This was from Nikita's blog and I thought it related to the calendar. One of the things we'd like to incorporate is a little information about trash clean ups and we may use one of these facts as a "Did you know..."
""Shopping carts and tires and refrigerators, kind of the things you expect," Hutsel says. "But then you also get these small little slot machines and other things that happen. It's kind of bizarre each time we kind of find new things we've never seen before along the river." He estimates that volunteers remove about 5,000 pounds of trash from the river each month"
4. Tide into electricity
This was sort of unrelated, but I found it interesting and it led me to another idea of why tides are important. If we talk about tides somewhere in the intro, we can mention it is used t make electricity.
"If one defines "commercial ocean energy" as several tens of megawatts, the world cannot yet boast a commercial ocean energy installation. Indeed, only two installations of either wave, tidal or in-stream current devices are grid-connected and can generate over 1 megawatt (MW) of power."
""Shopping carts and tires and refrigerators, kind of the things you expect," Hutsel says. "But then you also get these small little slot machines and other things that happen. It's kind of bizarre each time we kind of find new things we've never seen before along the river." He estimates that volunteers remove about 5,000 pounds of trash from the river each month"
4. Tide into electricity
This was sort of unrelated, but I found it interesting and it led me to another idea of why tides are important. If we talk about tides somewhere in the intro, we can mention it is used t make electricity.
"If one defines "commercial ocean energy" as several tens of megawatts, the world cannot yet boast a commercial ocean energy installation. Indeed, only two installations of either wave, tidal or in-stream current devices are grid-connected and can generate over 1 megawatt (MW) of power."
5. Another brand new current event that you just found that is interesting and useful for your MSB project (yes, this time you are finding two new current events). Include a link to the actual news story and a sentence or so that summarizes it. Post one unique & interesting fact, idea or quote that is useful for your project.
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