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.
An atlas guide to Bohuslän — Sweden's pink-granite archipelago of tangle kelp forests, lobster grounds, cold-water coral and 6,000 islands in the Skagerrak.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
On a headland east of Rio de Janeiro, wind-driven upwelling chills subtropical water enough for deep kelp beds — Brazil's strangest and most surprising forest.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Kelp is not a plant — it is a brown alga built around a stolen red-algal plastid. Tracing 200 million years of stramenopile evolution that produced the forest.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·
The brown rockfish is the shallowest of the Pacific rockfish — a dusky, bay-loving homebody of kelp beds, pier piles and eelgrass edges from Alaska to Baja.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A coastal atlas guide to Browns Bank, the Scotian Shelf plateau where kelp grows far offshore, urchins regrew and crashed, and science has watched for fifty years.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Ferry to Bruny Island for d'Entrecasteaux Channel kelp forests, sea-cliff wildlife cruises, white wallabies and Tasmania's foodiest postcode.
Tom Okafor ·
Bull kelp pickles turn the hollow stipes and bulbs of Nereocystis into crunchy, garlicky rings. Full recipe, brine ratios, troubleshooting and sourcing advice.
Sofia Andersson ·
Pholis gunnellus lives in kelp holdfasts and under tidepool stones, can cross wet rock between pools, and carries a necklace of eyespots down its back.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Beyond picking good credits: how buyers blend durability tiers, vintages and jurisdictions into a marine carbon portfolio that survives stress tests.
Priya Raman ·
A shopper's guide to fresh kelp: when it's in season, how to spot a freshly cut blade, which species suit which dishes, and how to store it at home.
Sofia Andersson ·
The cabezon Scorpaenichthys marmoratus is the largest sculpin on the Pacific coast — an egg-guarding ambush predator of kelp reefs with famously toxic roe.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
California flying fish: the biggest glider above the kelp coast. How they launch, why they arrive with warm water, and what eats them.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
California halibut (Paralichthys californicus) is the kelp edge's great ambush flatfish — sharp-toothed, colour-shifting and built to lunge into midwater.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Mytilus californianus builds wave-swept mussel beds that shelter hundreds of species. Glue chemistry, keystone starfish, zonation and conservation.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Panulirus interruptus is the clawless, night-hunting lobster of California kelp reefs — an urchin predator, a famous fishery, and a quiet guardian of the forest.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Off the Sahara's shoulder, the Canary Islands grow seaweed forests in upwelled water — until heatwaves and sea urchins turn them. An atlas of kelp's southern edge.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The canary rockfish went from overfished to rebuilt in fifteen years — one of the US west coast's most instructive fisheries recovery stories.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Storms punch holes in kelp canopies, and those holes are where the next forest begins. The science of gap dynamics, light pulses and the patchwork reef.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Cape Ann, north of Boston, is old granite meeting cold Atlantic water — sugar kelp ledges, famous shore dives and a coast living at kelp's warming edge.
Tom Okafor ·
Cape Arago's sandstone reefs hold Oregon's best tidepools, a sea lion haulout, and bull kelp gardens shaped by wild storms. A coastal atlas guide.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Two blue carbon credits can differ tenfold in price. Here's how co-benefits — biodiversity, livelihoods, tenure — drive the premium, and how to pay for them honestly.
Priya Raman ·
Blue carbon quotes vary wildly because pricing is layered: spot, forward, broker margins and co-benefit premiums. Here's how a price actually gets built.
Priya Raman ·
Independent ratings agencies now grade carbon credits like bonds. What they assess, how they changed buyer behaviour, and how to use them without leaning on them.
Priya Raman ·
A carbon credit only becomes a climate claim when it's retired on a registry. Here's what retirement means, how to check it, and why the details matter.
Priya Raman ·