The Tidewright Journal
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.
How to launch and land a sea kayak through surf safely: reading wave sets, timing lulls, bracing skills, boat choice and knowing when to stay on the beach.
Tom Okafor ·
Kelp and surf go together for the same oceanographic reasons. Why kelp-country breaks are so good, how kelp changes waves, and how to surf them well.
Tom Okafor ·
At 78°N, Svalbard's fjords hold kelp forests in polar light, growing under sea ice and beside glaciers. A guide to the High Arctic's underwater forests — and what's changing.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
It sleeps all day in kelp-bed crevices, hunts by night, and inflates like a balloon when threatened. Meet the swell shark of the Pacific coast.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Sydney lost its crayweed forests to sewage in the 1980s — then brought them back. A guide to the city's kelp, golden kelp meadows and dive reefs.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Between Sydney's beaches lie sandstone rock platforms striped with ankle-deep seaweed. A walker's guide to the city's intertidal kelp coast, south to north.
Tom Okafor ·
A Tidewright field note: acoustic-tagging giant sea bass near the restored kelp lines at Catalina — and what the receivers heard when the giants came back.
Jack Callum ·
Where the warm Kuroshio meets the southern limit of the kelp world — Sargassum forests, agar harvesters, the Longdong diving coast and Keelung's protected reefs.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Takikomi gohan is Japan's seasoned rice — dashi-soaked grains cooked with vegetables, mushrooms and seaweed. Recipes, seasonal variations and rice cooker tips.
Sofia Andersson ·
Laminaria hyperborea builds the kelp forests of Europe's cold coasts — with stiff stipes standing like an undersea grove. Biology, harvest history, ecology.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A ranger-led golden kelp harvest on South Australia's Gulf St Vincent just funded an entire seeding season. Field notes from the week the flywheel turned.
Jack Callum ·
Thermoclines, haloclines and pycnoclines are the invisible boundaries that slice the sea into layers. What they are, how they form, and why they run coastal life.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Tide pools are mini-climates in a handful of seawater. Some shield life through marine heatwaves; others become traps. The physics, the genetics and the conservation case.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
The night low tide belongs to octopus, crabs and hunting snails. How to tidepool after dark safely, what light to carry, and what you'll see that daylight hides.
Tom Okafor ·
How to explore tide pools without harming them: timing the tides, safe footing on weed-slick rock, species ID for beginners, and the etiquette that keeps pools alive.
Tom Okafor ·
A family guide to rock pooling on kelp coasts: picking the tide, the place and the kit, plus the three rules that keep kids — and tidepool life — safe.
Tom Okafor ·
Tides move more water than all the world's rivers. A clear guide to why the sea rises and falls — moon, sun, spring and neap tides, and what it all means for kelp.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
The TNFD framework is pushing companies to measure and disclose nature-related risks. Here's what it means for coasts, oceans and marine business.
Priya Raman ·
Turn a sheet of nori into shattering, sesame-scented crisps in five minutes — the easiest homemade seaweed snack, with five flavour variations.
Sofia Andersson ·
Meet the kelp perch, a live-bearing surfperch that hovers in the kelp canopy, sips drifting plankton and picks parasites straight off larger fish.
Tom Okafor ·
Five days as a trainee inside Tidewright's Holdfast hatchery: spore releases, cold rooms, seeded lines and the unglamorous real work of restoration.
Jack Callum ·
Meet the treefish (Sebastes serriceps) — the tiger-barred golden rockfish of California kelp reefs: identification, habitat, behaviour and conservation.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Giant kelp forests, rockhopper penguins and a lobster fishery that funds a town: a guide to Tristan da Cunha, the South Atlantic's most remote kelp coast.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
What the kelp ring around the world's most remote inhabited island actually looks like — island by island, season by season — and how anyone ever gets to see it.
Tom Okafor ·