Atlas9 min read
The Derwent Estuary: Kelp Restoration in a City's Front Yard
A guide to Hobart's Derwent Estuary — its kelp and seaweed habitats, a century of industry, urban restoration at Tinderbox, and where to see it yourself.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Coastal Atlas
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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Atlas7 min read
Mendocino: Life on the Lost Bull Kelp Coast
A field guide to Northern California's bull kelp collapse — the heatwave, the urchin explosion, the closed fisheries, and the difficult road back.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas8 min read
Prince Edward Islands: South Africa's Subantarctic Kelp Outpost
Marion and Prince Edward Islands hold giant kelp and bull kelp in the Furious Fifties — a coastal atlas guide to South Africa's wild, fiercely protected subantarctic outpost.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas8 min read
Shetland: Kelp at the Busiest Tidal Crossroads in Britain
Sixty degrees north, where the North Sea and Atlantic squeeze through Shetland's sounds, tide races drive some of Britain's richest kelp — and put conditions on everything.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas9 min read
Orkney and Shetland: Kelp at Britain's Northern Rim
Orkney and Shetland hold Britain's most exposed kelp forests: tide-scoured channels, otter-rich shores and the sunken fleet of Scapa Flow. A coastal atlas guide.
Jack Callum ·
Atlas8 min read
Saltstraumen: Kelp Forests on the Rim of the World's Strongest Whirlpool
Six hours in, six hours out: how 400 million cubic metres of water roar through Norway's Saltstraumen, why kelp thrives beside the whirlpools, and how to dive it safely.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas8 min read
Point Lobos: The Crown Jewel of California's Marine Reserves
A field guide to Point Lobos State Natural Reserve — its kelp canopy, whaling past, cypress groves, dive rules and the trails that read like a textbook.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas9 min read
Diving Fortescue Bay: Tasmania's Deep Kelp Gardens
A field guide to diving Fortescue Bay on Tasmania's Tasman Peninsula — kelp gardens, weedy seadragons, sea caves, conditions and what the site says about kelp loss.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas9 min read
Norway's Mid-Coast: From Trondheim to the Tangle Kelp Frontier
From Trondheimsfjorden to the skerries of Hitra and Frøya, mid-Norway holds some of Europe's finest tangle kelp forests. A coastal atlas guide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas8 min read
Scotland's Sea Lochs: Kelp Where the Mountains Meet the Tide
A coastal atlas guide to Scotland's west coast sea lochs: sheltered kelp forests, tidal rapids at loch mouths, maerl beds and how the voes shape what grows.
Jack Callum ·
Atlas8 min read
Crozet Islands: Subantarctic Kelp Kingdoms of the Indian Ocean
Giant kelp beds ring the Crozet Islands beneath some of the greatest penguin and albatross colonies on Earth — a coastal atlas guide to France's remote subantarctic.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas8 min read
Bodega Head: Where Wave-Battered Rock Meets the Bull Kelp Fringe
A field guide to Bodega Head — the granite headland on California's Sonoma Coast where upwelling, bull kelp and world-class marine science meet.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas7 min read
Puget Sound: Bull Kelp in the Inland Sea
Washington's inland sea shelters floating bull kelp beds that shelter salmon in return. A Coastal Atlas guide to its patchwork beds and citizen science.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas8 min read
La Jolla Cove and the San Diego Kelp Beds: Canopy Beside the Canyons
A guide to La Jolla's kelp forest, the underwater park that protects it, the leopard sharks of La Jolla Shores, and how to see it all from shore.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas9 min read
Cold-Water Diving in New Zealand's Fiordland: Doubtful, Milford and the Wild Fiords
Dive beneath the dark freshwater layer of Milford and Doubtful Sounds, where black corals grow at snorkelling depths. Access, seasons, sites and safety.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas8 min read
Bornholm and the Baltic Fringe: Where Kelp Meets Brackish Water
Denmark's bedrock island sits where the Baltic thins to half-strength seawater — a coastal atlas guide to brackish kelp beds, bladderwrack reefs and the salt frontier.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas8 min read
Malibu's Kelp Coast: Giant Kelp Beside the City
A guide to the giant kelp beds of Malibu and Santa Monica Bay — their history, decline, restoration wins and the best ways to see them today.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas11 min read
Paracas: Kelp, Anchoveta and the Peruvian Upwelling
Where Humboldt Current upwelling meets a desert peninsula: kelp, the anchoveta fleet and the guano-bird cliffs of the Ballestas. A Coastal Atlas guide.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas10 min read
Dive Guide: Second Valley, South Australia — Leafy Seadragon Country
Second Valley is the Fleurieu Peninsula's classic shore dive: leafy seadragons under the jetty, boulder ledges, gentle depth and serious marine life.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas9 min read
Diving Casino Point: A Kelp Cathedral on Catalina
Everything you need to dive Casino Point Dive Park on Catalina Island — entry steps, kelp forest routes, garibaldi and giant sea bass, conditions, and getting there.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas11 min read
The Cotentin Coast: Normandy's Tidal Kelp Races
Where the Alderney Race hurls ten knots of tide over granite reefs, Normandy holds some of Europe's fastest-water kelp forests — and a long varech memory.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas9 min read
Iceland's Westfjords: Kelp Beneath the Bird Cliffs
In Iceland's Westfjords, cold Greenland water meets the Atlantic and kelp forests thrive under seabird cliffs. A guide to the country's wildest fjord coasts.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·
Atlas9 min read
Gulf St Vincent: Adelaide's Shallow Kelp Sea
A coastal atlas guide to Gulf St Vincent: Adelaide's shallow warm gulf of kelp reefs, giant seagrass meadows, seadragons and a hard-won clean-up.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas11 min read
The Shakotan Peninsula: Hokkaido's Blue Kelp Coast
Cape Kamui's cliffs, water so clear it earned the name 'Shakotan blue', kombu forests and a legendary uni fishery — a Coastal Atlas guide to Hokkaido.
Tom Okafor ·