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.
Moving warm-tolerant kelp genotypes ahead of climate heat could buy forests decades. Here's the evidence, the ecological risks and the protocols that make it safer.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·
From Knysna's estuary to Tsitsikamma's ancient sanctuary, the Garden Route is where warm Agulhas water meets cool kelp country. A Coastal Atlas guide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Meet the high cockscomb, a crested prickleback living under rocks from Alaska to California — an intertidal survivor with a breeding male's comb.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Mooring design makes or breaks a longline kelp farm: grid geometry, design loads, safety factors, and how to engineer a farm to survive its worst storm.
Naomi Reyes ·
How to cook with kelp powder — the everyday seasoning doses, the iodine maths that matters, blends, dressings, doughs, and what to look for when buying.
Sofia Andersson ·
The BBNJ high seas treaty is now in force. What its four pillars actually do, and where high-seas governance touches — and misses — blue carbon.
Priya Raman ·
A practical RFP playbook for blue-carbon credit buyers: what to specify, which questions to ask, how to score bids and what to contract for.
Priya Raman ·
Dive safety officers run the diving programs of universities, aquariums and film crews. Here's what the DSO does, the certifications required and how to get there.
Tom Okafor ·
A Tidewright dispatch: the first sunflower star recorded on a long-running transect since the wasting years, and an honest crew argument about what one animal means.
Jack Callum ·
Meet the heart crab — a flattened, heart-shaped California reef crab that is not a true crab at all, but a king-crab relative descended from hermit ancestors.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
How to snorkel kelp beds from a kayak — anchoring without wrecking reef, entries and re-entries, drift management, and the safety spacing that matters.
Tom Okafor ·
Ferment kelp and other seaweed into bright, tangy kimchi and sauerkraut-style preserves with these proven recipes, safety ratios and microbe science.
Sofia Andersson ·
How do scientists decide if a specific marine heatwave was caused by climate change? Inside event attribution, from FAR to counterfactual oceans.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Meet the Pacific white-sided dolphin — the torpedo-striped, bow-riding acrobat of North Pacific kelp latitudes, from BC's inshore passages to Monterey Bay.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
ROV pilots fly multi-tonne robots at the bottom of the sea from a shipping-container control room. Routes in, tickets, pay and the working life.
Tom Okafor ·
St Helena Bay is where the Benguela upwelling cell is born — kelp fringe, rock lobster, seabird islands, and the dynamics of a bay that feeds an entire region.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Before the drones fly, Tidewright's monitoring crews count the cormorant roost by hand at dawn. Here's why roost counts still beat satellites for kelp-forest health.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Calliostoma ligatum, the blue-top snail, is a small pearly topsnail that grazes living kelp blades along the Pacific coast, from blade to canopy.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
How to combine wakame, agar strands and other dried seaweeds into a balanced kaiso salad — soaking ratios, the shoyu-sesame dressing, and texture rules.
Sofia Andersson ·
Kelp survived the ice ages in pockets called glacial refugia. That history still structures the genetics of today's forests — and guides restoration.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·
Most reef fish and invertebrates begin life adrift as larvae. Learn the feeding strategies, settlement cues and dispersal lotteries that decide who reaches the reef.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Drying preserves kelp, but how you dry it decides colour, flavour, nutrients and safety. A quality-first guide to picking the right drying method.
Naomi Reyes ·
Stalked jellyfish are thumbnail-sized staurozoans that grip kelp fronds with a sticky foot and never swim. A guide to finding these hidden kelp forest gems.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A working calendar for sugar kelp farming — from summer sorus collection through autumn outplanting, winter growth and the spring harvest window.
Naomi Reyes ·