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.
Yelloweye rockfish can live more than a century on a single reef. Identification, the barotrauma problem, and the rules helping this red giant recover.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Additionality is the make-or-break test of every carbon credit: did the credit cause the climate benefit? How the counterfactual is tested — and faked.
Priya Raman ·
A 1,900-kilometre arc of volcano, fog and kelp strung between Alaska and Siberia — the coastline that taught ecologists how sea otters hold kelp forests together.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Aquaculture technicians run the hatcheries and farms the blue economy is built on. Here are the skills, certifications, pay patterns and honest routes in.
Naomi Reyes ·
Article 6 of the Paris Agreement lets countries trade carbon credits. This explainer asks what that plumbing means for coastal blue-carbon projects — and what's still missing.
Priya Raman ·
Baja California's Pacific kelp beds mark giant kelp's warm-water frontier — a coast of El Niño crashes, fast recovery, red urchin fisheries and hard-won lessons.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·
Read the Basque coast as wave country — flysch reefs that shape famous surf and hold a storm-pruned kelp forest, plus the wakame that rode in on the ports.
Tom Okafor ·
Your first kelp forest dive is easier — and more magical — than you think. Gear, skills, marine life and etiquette for new divers entering the green cathedral.
Tom Okafor ·
Biodiversity credits promise funding for nature restoration that carbon markets can't reach. Here's how they work, what can go wrong, and where marine ecosystems fit.
Priya Raman ·
How to keep fouling organisms off your kelp crop and gear: what fouls longlines and when, depth and timing tactics, cleaning methods, and harvest triage.
Naomi Reyes ·
Black abalone once blanketed California's rocky intertidal, then disease and poaching erased most of them. Inside an unlikely marine recovery story.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Black oystercatcher Haematopus bachmani: the rock-loving sentinel of the Pacific coast — habits, tiny population and what it reveals.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The black oystercatcher lives its whole life on kelp-fringed rock, hammering limpets and mussels. Ecology, bill lore, breeding and its role as an indicator.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Blue carbon analysts turn mangroves, seagrass and kelp into audited tonnes. Here's what the job is, the skills it demands and the practical road into it.
Priya Raman ·
Blue carbon credits fund coastal restoration at scale — when they're done right. Who buys them, who sells them, how the market works, and where kelp fits.
Priya Raman ·
MRV — monitoring, reporting, verification — is the machinery that makes blue carbon credits real. How coastal carbon claims get measured and audited.
Priya Raman ·
How blue carbon fits into the Paris Agreement — NDCs, Article 6 trading, national inventories and coastal-wetland accounting — and where kelp stands.
Priya Raman ·
How buyers should assemble a blue carbon portfolio: mixing ecosystems, vintages and risk tiers, demanding MRV, and avoiding the traps of single-project bets.
Priya Raman ·
A working guide to operating a carbon registry account for an ocean project: onboarding, issuance workflows, serial numbers, transfers and pitfalls.
Priya Raman ·
Ocean employers are hiring faster than they can find people. Here are the skills for blue economy jobs that actually get you hired — and how to build them.
Naomi Reyes ·
The blue rockfish (Sebastes mystinus) is a blue-black schooling mainstay of Pacific kelp forests. Biology, fishery and what its presence tells us.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The bluebanded goby is a thumb-length fish in neon red and electric blue, and it can change sex both ways. Meet California's most dazzling reef resident.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Every great kelp forest sits in the shadow of a great current. Here's how western and eastern boundary currents shape temperature, nutrients and the world's temperate reefs.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Brittany grows the biggest kelp beds in Europe and built an industry on goémon. A guide to the Iroise Sea's Laminaria forests, the harvest and its future.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·