Atlas8 min read
Point Lobos: The Crown Jewel of California's Marine Reserves
A field guide to Point Lobos State Natural Reserve — its kelp canopy, whaling past, cypress groves, dive rules and the trails that read like a textbook.
Tom Okafor ·
The Tidewright Journal
Everything we know about growing back the ocean.
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.
Encyclopedia7 min read
Graceful Crab: The Slender Scuttler of Kelp Country
Graceful crab species profile: the slim Metacarcinus gracilis of eelgrass, bays and kelp edges — how to tell it from a small Dungeness, and its estuary role.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Encyclopedia7 min read
Crevice Kelpfish (Gibbonsia montereyensis): The Shape-Shifter of the Holdfasts
The crevice kelpfish can turn from red to brown to match the algae it hides in. Meet the small, coiled shape-shifter living inside the kelp forest's foundations.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·
Field Notes6 min read
Field Notes: Showing the Forest to the Council
Four councillors, one RIB, two spare wetsuits and a young kelp bed. Notes from a field day with the people who sign our permits.
Jack Callum ·
Field Notes6 min read
Fogbound: Surveying a Reef You Cannot See
Three days of camanchaca fog shut down every camera we own on the Humboldt Coast. The survey didn't stop — it changed tools. How to work a reef blind.
Jack Callum ·
Farming9 min read
From Frond to Powder: How Seaweed Polysaccharides Are Extracted
Alginate, carrageenan, agar and fucoidan all start as wet seaweed on a harvest boat. Here is how extraction turns fronds into the powders behind a thousand products.
Naomi Reyes ·
Explore8 min read
Filming the Forest: Underwater Videography in Kelp Country
Moving from stills or action cams to serious underwater video — housings, video lights, white balance and the shot discipline that makes kelp footage worth editing.
Tom Okafor ·
Science10 min read
Edge Effects in Kelp Forests: Why Patch Size Changes Everything
A kelp forest's edge is not its boundary but a habitat of its own. How perimeter, patch size and geometry decide survival, diversity and restoration design on temperate reefs.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas9 min read
Diving Fortescue Bay: Tasmania's Deep Kelp Gardens
A field guide to diving Fortescue Bay on Tasmania's Tasman Peninsula — kelp gardens, weedy seadragons, sea caves, conditions and what the site says about kelp loss.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Mosshead Warbonnet: The Eel-Like Hider of Rocky Reefs
The mosshead warbonnet is a moss-fringed, eel-like prickleback of North Pacific reefs — a shy, hole-loving specialist of kelp-bed cracks and crevices.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Blue Carbon10 min read
Permitting an Ocean CDR Trial: A Realistic Map of the Consent Maze
How ocean CDR field trials actually get permitted: research exemptions, environmental review, discharge rules, marine consent and community engagement.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Kitchen6 min read
Seaweed Butter: The Two-Ingredient Upgrade Everything Else Needs
Beyond the basic recipe: which seaweeds to blend into butter, five flavour variations, and a cook's map of where seaweed butter transforms a dish.
Sofia Andersson ·
Atlas9 min read
Norway's Mid-Coast: From Trondheim to the Tangle Kelp Frontier
From Trondheimsfjorden to the skerries of Hitra and Frøya, mid-Norway holds some of Europe's finest tangle kelp forests. A coastal atlas guide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Encyclopedia11 min read
Penpoint Gunnel: The Green Eel-That-Isn't of the Kelp Beds
Meet the penpoint gunnel — an eel-shaped Pacific shore fish that changes colour with its seaweed and guards eggs in a ball under the rocks.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas8 min read
Scotland's Sea Lochs: Kelp Where the Mountains Meet the Tide
A coastal atlas guide to Scotland's west coast sea lochs: sheltered kelp forests, tidal rapids at loch mouths, maerl beds and how the voes shape what grows.
Jack Callum ·
Farming7 min read
Seaweed in Cosmetics: Alginates, Carrageenan and What Actually Works
How seaweed extracts work in cosmetics, which claims have real evidence behind them, and what supply chains skincare formulators actually need from growers.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming8 min read
Selling Across Borders: Export Rules and Biosecurity for Seaweed Products
Exporting seaweed means two rulebooks at once — food safety and biosecurity. How market access, phytosanitary certificates and product certification really work.
Naomi Reyes ·
Atlas8 min read
Crozet Islands: Subantarctic Kelp Kingdoms of the Indian Ocean
Giant kelp beds ring the Crozet Islands beneath some of the greatest penguin and albatross colonies on Earth — a coastal atlas guide to France's remote subantarctic.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Farming8 min read
The Old Way Still Works: Small-Scale and Beach Drying for Kelp
Beach and line drying are the oldest seaweed preservation methods on Earth — and for small farms they still deliver cheap, food-safe kelp with zero machinery.
Naomi Reyes ·
Atlas8 min read
Bodega Head: Where Wave-Battered Rock Meets the Bull Kelp Fringe
A field guide to Bodega Head — the granite headland on California's Sonoma Coast where upwelling, bull kelp and world-class marine science meet.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Blue Carbon10 min read
Ex-Ante Credits: Selling Carbon Before It Exists — and the Rules That Make It Safe
Ex-ante credits sell carbon sequestration before it happens — how the instrument works, the delivery risks, and the safeguards buyers should demand.
Priya Raman ·
Encyclopedia7 min read
Helmet Crab: The Armoured Bristle of the North Pacific
Helmet crab species profile: the saw-edged, bristled Telmessus cheiragonus — a night-roaming burrower of kelp coast sand from Alaska to Japan.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Science11 min read
Hyperspectral Eyes on the Ocean: Seeing Kelp in a Hundred Colours
Hyperspectral sensors split light into hundreds of bands, separating kelp species, plankton groups and sediment that multispectral satellites blur together. Here's how.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas7 min read
Puget Sound: Bull Kelp in the Inland Sea
Washington's inland sea shelters floating bull kelp beds that shelter salmon in return. A Coastal Atlas guide to its patchwork beds and citizen science.
Tom Okafor ·