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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A coastal atlas guide to BC's Central Coast and Hakai Passage — double-canopy kelp, returning sea otters, herring spawn and deep human history in cold green water.
Tom Okafor ·
At Head of Bight, the Nullarbor falls into the Southern Ocean and southern right whales nursery beneath the cliffs. A guide to this wild kelp coast.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Glaciers, an active volcano and some of Earth's loneliest kelp — a guide to Heard and McDonald Islands, Australia's subantarctic World Heritage group.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Helgoland, 46 km off Germany's North Sea coast, holds the country's only kelp forests — and one of the world's longest marine ecological records. A guide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Howe Sound recovered from a century of industrial pollution to glass sponge reefs, returning orcas and thickening bull kelp — an atlas guide to BC's comeback fjord.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Sugar kelp under six months of sea ice, belugas in the estuary and a lengthening summer: a guide to the subarctic kelp fringe of Hudson Bay's Churchill coast.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Iceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge where warm and Arctic currents collide — and its kelp forests, dive sites and seaweed traditions are as strange and rich as its geology.
Tom Okafor ·
Mull and Skye hide forests of kelp in long, calm sea lochs — otters on the weed ridges, sharks offshore. A visitor's guide to the Inner Hebrides' kelp coast.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Kelp forests of Ireland's Atlantic west — the species beneath the cliffs, two centuries of kelp ash money, and a hand-harvest tradition that never died.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Inside the Irish Sea's kelp island — the Manx survey tradition, marine nature reserves, and kelp beds where northern and southern species overlap.
Tom Okafor ·
The kelp of the Manx coast, species by species — wrack zonation, tangle forests in the tide races, the forest's seasons, and the wildlife it feeds.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Twenty-eight miles offshore of Land's End, the Scillies hold England's clearest water, warmest kelp reefs, great grey seal swims and some of British diving's classics.
Tom Okafor ·
Three hours from Tokyo, the Izu Peninsula offers kelp beds, coral outposts, cave dives and hammerhead waters where the Kuroshio brushes the coast.
Tom Okafor ·
Jeju's volcanic coast is Korea's marine frontier — home of the haenyeo women divers, wakame and kombu farms, and a sea warming faster than almost anywhere on Earth.
Tom Okafor ·
Kaikōura packs a submarine canyon, sperm whales and bull kelp into one coastline — and the 2016 earthquake that lifted its reefs rewrote them in a night.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A coastal atlas guide to Kamchatka's kelp forests: volcanic coasts, otter-held reefs, salmon-fed waters, and one of the least-disturbed kelp ecosystems on Earth.
Tom Okafor ·
Kapiti Island rises out of Cook Strait's tidal machinery — a predator-free bird sanctuary above water, and protected kelp reefs, seals and blue cod below.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Brittany's laminaria beds are Europe's great kelp forests. Where they lie around Molène, Sein and Ouessant, what lives in them, and how to dive the tide races.
Tom Okafor ·
Devon's two coasts hold England's richest kelp forests — oarweed, cuvie and golden kelp from Plymouth Sound to Lundy — plus the science capital of British marine life.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Oregon's bull kelp rides one of the wildest upwelling coasts on Earth — and its southern forests are on the edge. A guide to the reefs and the fight back.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A coastal atlas guide to Portugal's kelp forests — upwelling-fed golden kelp at its southern Atlantic limit, from the Minho to the Arrábida, and what heat is doing to it.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A coastal atlas guide to the Kerguelen Islands — vast giant kelp beds at 49°S, elephant seals and king penguins, iron-fed blooms, and the wildest kelp wilderness few will see.
Tom Okafor ·
1,000 km northeast of Auckland, the Kermadec Islands hold kelp at its warm edge — volcanoes, tropical fish and one of New Zealand's great marine reserves.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Brown bears above, sea otters in the kelp below — a guide to the reefs, salmon rivers and cold-water richness of Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago.
Tom Okafor ·