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.
Kelp canopies don't just slow water — they reorganise it. How canopy flow physics shapes turbulence, nutrient delivery and life inside a kelp forest.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Green gravel, seeded lines, urchin culling, spore bags, assisted migration — how the main kelp restoration methods compare on cost, scale and evidence of success.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Standing above a kelp forest on a paddleboard is the clearest view you can get without a mask. Where to SUP over kelp, plus technique, wind sense and etiquette.
Tom Okafor ·
Who legally controls carbon stored in seabed sediments and coastal waters — tenure regimes, marine property rights and what they mean for carbon projects.
Priya Raman ·
Meet the sharpnose crab — a small Pacific spider crab that plants living algae on hooked hairs across its shell. How the disguise works and where to find it.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A technician's guide to kelp spore settlement onto seed string: sorus selection and spore release, density targets, tank hygiene, light and temperature, and common failures.
Naomi Reyes ·
Wave exposure decides which kelp species can live where, and what shape they take. How ocean energy filters the forest — and why it matters for restoration.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
What corresponding adjustments under Article 6 are, how they prevent double counting, when they apply to blue carbon, and how buyers check them.
Priya Raman ·
Tidewright's northern-most program seeds sugar kelp through Lofoten's polar night, working from fishing boats at 68 degrees north. A field operations log.
Jack Callum ·
Hijiki contains meaningful levels of inorganic arsenic. Here's what food safety agencies actually advise, why, and the alternatives that carry none of the risk.
Sofia Andersson ·
Ceratostoma foliatum, the leafy hornmouth, is a winged predatory snail of Pacific kelp reefs — a slow driller of mussels and barnacles.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Northland is New Zealand's subtropical-temperate crossover — Ecklonia radiata reefs, kina barrens, the Poor Knights, and reserves that showed how reefs recover.
Tom Okafor ·
Multibeam sonar, sidescan texture, satellite bathymetry and AUVs: how modern seafloor mapping works, what each tool can resolve, and why reefs need it.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Carbon methodologies run to 80 pages of dense requirements. Here's a section-by-section walkthrough: what each part commits a project to, and where buyers should focus.
Priya Raman ·
A coastal atlas guide to Esperance, Western Australia: kelp forests beneath the whitest beaches in the country, granite islands, seadragons and how to see them.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Ecological succession explains how a bare rocky reef rebuilds into a kelp forest — the pioneer algae, understory kelps, canopy giants, and what restoration can safely skip.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
After a heatwave, storm or harvest clears a kelp forest, the reef rebuilds in a predictable order. The stage-by-stage science of marine succession.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Learn to buy dried kelp like a buyer: kombu grades, the white bloom that's a good sign, cut forms, provenance labels and storage that keeps flavour in.
Sofia Andersson ·
Guide to Port Stephens, NSW, where the Great Southern Reef meets the warm north — grey nurse sharks, sponge gardens, shore dives and a shifting kelp line.
Tom Okafor ·
Iwate's ria coast grows some of Japan's finest kelp in drowned valleys — and fifteen years on from the 2011 tsunami, its recovery tells a coastal story for our century.
Tom Okafor ·
Kombu, shiitake and tofu folded into pleated dumplings — a master recipe with folding technique, potsticker option and three sauces that let the ocean speak.
Sofia Andersson ·
Sinking farmed kelp into the deep ocean could lock away carbon for centuries — or create new problems. A clear-eyed look at both sides of the seaweed debate.
Priya Raman ·
Make wakame seaweed salad the proper way: rehydrate, blanch to jade green, dress with sesame and rice vinegar. Recipe, technique and sourcing.
Sofia Andersson ·
Identifying the walleye surfperch: the big-eyed, silver schooler of kelp edges and sand flats, and a member of the ocean's great live-bearing family.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·