Guides to the world’s kelp coastlines — the Great Southern Reef, Monterey Bay, Hokkaido, Norway, Patagonia — their ecology, seasons and stories.
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Granite headlands, golden sand and golden kelp: New Zealand's smallest national park meets scallop country at the top of the South Island.
Tom Okafor ·
The Houtman Abrolhos hosts the Indian Ocean's southernmost coral reefs beside golden kelp beds — the live boundary where warm current meets temperate sea.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
An 800-km volcanic chain between the North Pacific and the Bering Sea — passes, salmon rivers, cold kelp forests on one side, sand on the other.
Jack Callum ·
A seaweed guide to the Amakusa islands of Kumamoto: Ariake Sea nori farms, dolphin straits, hidden-Christian villages, and Japan's biggest tides.
Tom Okafor ·
Giant kelp at the warm edge of its range, albatrosses that breed nowhere else, and a scientists-only island: a guide to the kelp coast of Amsterdam Island.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Anacapa is the nearest of the Channel Islands — an hour from Ventura, a world away underwater. Its kelp beds, conservation wins and how to dive them.
Tom Okafor ·
Tidal races, seabird cliffs and reefs of tangle kelp — a guide to the Anglesey coast, Wales' great island corner of the Irish Sea, underwater and above.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
No true kelp grows south of the Antarctic polar front, yet the Peninsula guards seaweed forests of its own. A guide to the frozen edge.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A region guide to Arraial do Cabo — the wind-driven upwelling that chills Brazil's warm coast, its kelp-like Sargassum beds, rich reefs and dive-season rhythms.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
South of New Zealand lie wind-torn islands wrapped in some of Earth's densest kelp forests. A guide to the Auckland and Campbell islands' wild underwater world.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Nine volcanic islands in the mid-Atlantic hold warm-water seaweed forests instead of true kelp — plus limpets, groupers and mobulas. An atlas guide to the Azores underwater.
Tom Okafor ·
Nine islands on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge offer lava arches, seamount pinnacles and deep-water kelp gardens — a diver's atlas of volcanic reef ecology in the Azores.
Tom Okafor ·
Bahía Magdalena on Baja's Pacific coast shelters gray whales in mangrove lagoons — and hides giant kelp at its southern limit on the ocean shore outside.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A coastal atlas guide to Bantry Bay, West Cork — a drowned valley of kelp forest, shellfish farms and Ireland's great kelp-harvest battle.
Tom Okafor ·
A Coastal Atlas guide to Russia's Murman Coast, the ice-free Arctic shore warmed by the Gulf Stream, where kelp forests grow far past the polar circle.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Barkley Sound on Vancouver Island's west coast holds giant and bull kelp forests, the Broken Group islands and one of Canada's great marine research stations.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
How a boardwalk village at the end of a gravel road became Canada's marine-science capital, and how to visit the kelp fjord it has studied for fifty years.
Tom Okafor ·
How the biggest tidal range on Earth reshapes kelp habitat — and where kelp still grips the outer headlands of the Bay of Fundy.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
A Coastal Atlas guide to the Bay of Plenty — golden kelp at its warm limit, volcanic islands, subtropical fish visitors, Moutohorā's sanctuary, seasons and how to see it all.
Tom Okafor ·
At the foot of South America, one glaciated channel carries giant kelp, sea lions and two centuries of history between two oceans. A Coastal Atlas guide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A field guide to Big Sur's remote kelp forests: why the vertical coast grows them, how deep canyons feed them, and how anyone actually reaches them.
Jack Callum ·
In the brackish, landlocked Black Sea, Cystoseira barbata once built kelp-like forests on shallow rock. Eutrophication broke them; now the coast is rebuilding.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
An atlas guide to Bohuslän — Sweden's pink-granite archipelago of tangle kelp forests, lobster grounds, cold-water coral and 6,000 islands in the Skagerrak.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
On a headland east of Rio de Janeiro, wind-driven upwelling chills subtropical water enough for deep kelp beds — Brazil's strangest and most surprising forest.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·