Atlas9 min read
The Noto Peninsula: Satoumi, the Japanese Art of Coastal Stewardship
A coastal atlas guide to Japan's Noto Peninsula: satoumi stewardship, ama divers, wakame culture and a coast remade by the 2024 earthquake.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
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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Atlas9 min read
The Basque Coast: Kelp, Cider-House Seas and the Bay of Biscay
Along the Basque Country's flysch cliffs and fishing towns, kelp forests cling where the Bay of Biscay meets the warm edge of their European range. A guide.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas7 min read
Kelp at the Desert's Edge: Namibia's Skeleton Coast Forests
A guide to Namibia's Skeleton Coast kelp — sea bamboo in cold Benguela water beside the world's oldest desert, guano islands, lobster fisheries and fog-shrouded forests.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas8 min read
Kelp Forests of South Africa: Where Two Oceans Grow One Forest
A guide to South Africa's kelp forests — towering sea bamboo in cold Benguela water, abalone farms, great white sharks, and an Atlantic-Pacific meeting of seas.
Naomi Reyes ·
Atlas9 min read
The Yellow Sea: Where Kelp Farming Feeds a Nation
A coastal atlas guide to the Yellow Sea: the heartland of world kelp farming, from Qingdao's kombu rafts to green tides and a shallow, changing sea.
Naomi Reyes ·
Atlas9 min read
Boston Harbor Islands: Kelp's Comeback Beside a Cleaned-Up City
Boston's harbor went from punchline to one of America's cleanest urban seas, and kelp came back with it. A guide to the islands' underwater forests.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas9 min read
Kelp at the Edge: The Northern Gulf of California's Warm-Water Forests
A coastal atlas guide to the northern Gulf of California: the warm-water edge of kelp, Eisenia arborea forests, tidal mixing and a sea under heat stress.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas8 min read
Kelp Forests of Ise-Shima and the Ama Divers of Japan
A guide to Ise-Shima's warm-temperate seaweed forests, the ama divers who have worked them for millennia, and the warming waters reshaping Japan's coastal seas.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas9 min read
The Portuguese Kelp Edge: Cascais to the Atlantic's Warm Turn
From Cascais to Cabo da Roca, Portugal's kelp grows at the warm southern edge of its range. A guide to the coast where forests thin and science watches closely.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas9 min read
Kelp Forests of the Firth of Clyde: Scotland's Once-and-Future Sea
A coastal atlas guide to the Firth of Clyde: where kelp still grows, what a century of trawling took out, and why Arran's no-take zone matters.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas8 min read
Kelp Forests of Newfoundland and Labrador: Cold-Water Kelp and Cod
A guide to Newfoundland's kelp forests — sugar kelp reefs in ice-cold Atlantic water, urchin barrens, the cod collapse's shadow, and what recovery looks like.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas11 min read
Algoa Bay: Where Kelp Meets Its Eastern Limit
Algoa Bay is where South Africa's kelp forests thin toward the tropics — penguins, gannets, dolphins and the warm Agulhas water that ends the forest's range.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas11 min read
Kelp Forests of the Catlins: New Zealand's Forgotten Coast
The Catlins is New Zealand's most overlooked kelp coast — bull kelp surf fringes, rare sea lions, yellow-eyed penguins and a Jurassic forest under the tide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas10 min read
King George Sound: Albany's Sheltered Kelp Jewel
King George Sound shelters some of southern WA's richest kelp reefs. A coastal atlas guide to Albany's granite forests, whale history and cold clear diving.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas9 min read
Kelp Forests of Labrador: The Subarctic Coast Few People See
A coastal atlas guide to Labrador's kelp: ice-scoured forests of sugar kelp and Arctic species, Inuit sea country, and a coastline warming fast.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas9 min read
Kelp Forests of Cape Breton: Where the Gulf Meets the Atlantic
A coastal atlas guide to Cape Breton Island's kelp: the Bras d'Or inland sea, the Gulf-facing west coast, the Atlantic headlands, and how to explore them.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas9 min read
Kelp Forests of Big Sur: California's Vertical Coastline
A coastal atlas guide to Big Sur's kelp: cliff geology, upwelling and otters, where the canopy grows, and realistic access on California's wildest coast.
Tom Okafor ·