Atlas7 min read
Maine's Acadia Coast: Kelp Where the Mountains Meet the Gulf
Mount Desert Island's granite meets the cold Gulf of Maine — rockweed shores, subtidal kelp ledges and the science of a warming coast around Acadia.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
The Tidewright Journal
Everything we know about growing back the ocean.
Encyclopedia entries, coastal atlas guides, science explainers, farming know-how and recipes — written by Tidewright’s scientists, engineers, chefs and field crews, and open to everyone.
Blue Carbon8 min read
Mangrove Blue Carbon 101: The Original Coastal Carbon Market
Mangroves built the blue carbon market. How mangrove credits work, why restoration projects fail, and what separates a good project from a bad one.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Encyclopedia7 min read
Marblefish: The Odd Surgeon of the Southern Kelp
Marbled, thick-lipped and built to crop kelp: the marblefish of New Zealand and southern Australia, a herbivore with the reef's strangest tools.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Blue Carbon10 min read
Marine Biodiversity Net Gain: The Policy Wave Reaching the Sea
Marine biodiversity net gain is moving from land into coastal planning. Here's how BNG works, what it means for developers and councils, and where kelp fits.
Priya Raman ·
Careers8 min read
Careers in Marine Biotech: From Algae Labs to Product Startups
How to build a career in marine biotechnology — the study paths, lab and hatchery skills employers want, and where seaweed science turns into products.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·
Science8 min read
Marine Connectivity: How Reefs Are Linked by Currents
Reefs are joined by currents into a living network. How connectivity works, why stepping stones matter, and how it shapes marine reserves and kelp restoration.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Careers9 min read
Marine Environmental Consulting: What the Job Actually Is
Marine consultancies run the surveys and assessments behind every coastal project. Here's the daily work, the seasonal rhythm, and the honest trade-offs.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Science8 min read
Marine Fog: The Grey Curtain That Kelp Coasts Call Home
Why the world's great kelp coasts spend their summers under a blanket of fog, how the ocean manufactures it, and what a shifting grey sky means for forests below.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Science9 min read
The Fungi of the Kelp Forest: Hidden Partners and Emerging Pathogens
Fungi live inside kelp blades, partner with seaweeds and, as oceans warm, sometimes turn pathogenic. What marine mycology knows — and what it means for farms and reefs.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Blue Carbon9 min read
Attributing Marine Heatwaves to Climate Change: How Scientists Assign Blame
How attribution science works for marine heatwaves — fraction of attributable risk, model counterfactuals, and what it means for baselines and reversal risk.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Science9 min read
Marine Heatwave vs Ocean Warming: A Spike Is Not a Slope
Marine heatwaves are spikes riding on a rising baseline of ocean warming. How scientists separate the two signals — and why the difference matters for reefs.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Science9 min read
Sea Snot: What Marine Mucilage Events Tell Us About a Warming Ocean
Marine mucilage — the 'sea snot' that smothered the Sea of Marmara — is plankton slime gone rogue. What it is, why it happens, and the climate signal inside.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Science9 min read
The Marine Nitrogen Cycle: The Element Budget Behind Every Kelp Blade
Nitrogen feeds every kelp blade and limits most ocean growth. A plain-language tour of the marine nitrogen cycle — fixation, upwelling, uptake and loss.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Careers10 min read
Careers in Marine Photogrammetry: Mapping Reefs in 3D for a Living
Reef photogrammetry turns overlapping photos into centimetre-scale 3D habitat maps. Here's how the field works, the skills it takes, and who hires for it.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Science9 min read
Designing Marine Protected Areas That Kelp Forests Can Actually Use
Reserve design is arithmetic: how big, how far apart, which reefs. The principles that decide whether an MPA network actually saves kelp forests.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Science8 min read
Marine Snow: The Ocean's Slow Carbon Conveyor
Marine snow is the ocean's constant drizzle of sinking organic matter — and one of the main routes by which carbon reaches the deep sea. Here's how it works.
Priya Raman ·
Science8 min read
Marine Snow: The Ocean's Slow Carbon Rain
Marine snow is more than falling debris — each flake is a sticky, living microhabitat. How aggregates form, who lives on them, and why they matter.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Science8 min read
Marine Snow and Kelp: The Slow Conveyor of Carbon to the Deep
Kelp forests shed huge amounts of carbon as detritus. How storms, microbes and sticky aggregates turn that debris into marine snow — and where it lands.
Priya Raman ·
Careers9 min read
Survey Diving as a Job: Reef Transects for Pay, Not Just Joy
Ecological survey diving is real paid work — transects, counts and monitoring for agencies, consultancies and restoration programmes. Here's how the market works.
Tom Okafor ·
Careers8 min read
Marine Telemetry Careers: A Job Made of Tags and Pingers
What marine telemetry technicians actually do — tagging sharks and fish, running receiver arrays, wrangling detection data — and how to break into the field.
Jack Callum ·
Atlas9 min read
Marion Island: Kelp, Mice and Albatross in the Roaring Forties
A volcanic subantarctic outpost ringed by giant kelp, albatross skies and elephant-seal beaches — and the mice that threatened it all. An atlas guide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Careers8 min read
Maritime Law Careers: Where the Ocean Meets the Courtroom
Maritime and ocean law careers explained: shipping and admiralty practice, Law of the Sea work, marine environmental law, and how to qualify for each.
Priya Raman ·
Atlas8 min read
The Marlborough Sounds: Kelp in the Drowned Valleys
New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds are drowned river valleys where kelp beds, mussel farms, dolphins and a famous shipwreck share startlingly calm water.
Tom Okafor ·
Blue Carbon10 min read
Measuring Kelp Carbon Export: The Methods Behind the Numbers
Kelp carbon counts only when it leaves the forest and stays gone. The traps, biomarkers, isotopes and models scientists use to track it into the deep.
Priya Raman ·