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PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF THE SHEDD AQUARIUM/BRENNA HERNANDEZ SPIRIT OF GENEROSITY tending the tides WELLNESS OF OUR OCEANS. BY JON BOWERMASTER W Biologists at the Shedd Aquarium use the results of the OHI to better understand how animals like this giant Pacific octopus react to changing conditions of the seas. 56 MICHIGANAVEMAG.COM HEATHER AND BEAU WRIGLEY JOINED SOME OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST MINDS TO COMMISSION A BREAK- THROUGH STUDY OF THE hether you live on a beach or, like Chicagoans, at 600 feet above sea level, it should come as no surprise that during the past century mankind has put a severe strain on the planet's one and only ocean. We have carelessly overfished it, polluted it, dumped carbon dioxide into it, and heated it up. Though it covers more than 70 percent of the planet we have long treated the ocean like a giant landfill, fooling ourselves into thinking it has an ability to infinitely absorb toxic runoff, billions of pieces of plastic, 24 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, and still somehow miraculously heal itself all the while providing us with valu- able resources ranging from food to medicines. To stem the tide of abuse, some of the brightest minds in the worlds of science, conservation, and business have joined forces to come up with a way to encourage cleaning up some of the worst of the ocean's problems. Their solution is the