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.
Ocean alkalinity enhancement is a leading candidate for durable ocean carbon removal. How it works, what it might store, and the questions still open.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Meet the California scorpionfish — a venomous, camouflaged ambush predator of southern kelp reefs. How to identify it, where it hides, and why its sting deserves respect.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
How to become a commercial diver: certification schemes (ADAS, DCBC, HSE), what the work actually pays, and how recreational diving experience really counts.
Tom Okafor ·
Fisheries observers collect the data that quotas, closures and stock science stand on. What the job involves, how to get in, and who it suits.
Jack Callum ·
Frozen kelp slurry lets farms stabilize a fresh harvest without a dryer. How slurrying works, what it preserves, and when it beats drying or salting.
Naomi Reyes ·
Much of the ocean goes hungry for a single trace metal. How desert dust, glaciers and hydrothermal vents decide ocean fertility — and the fertilisation debate.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
From Sentinel-2 pixels to drone orthomosaics, here's how scientists detect, map and track kelp forest canopies from space — and where the limits are.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A clear-eyed framework for deciding when offsets are defensible: reduce first, then judge credits by integrity, permanence, additionality and claims.
Priya Raman ·
Marine lawyers shape who may do what, where, in two-thirds of the planet. Inside careers in law of the sea, ocean governance and coastal regulation.
Priya Raman ·
How commercial dive teams work safely inside a kelp farm — entanglement risk, line discipline, buddy protocols, tools and the pre-dive checks that matter.
Naomi Reyes ·
Seed string is the kelp farm's starter crop. This step-by-step guide covers sorus collection, spore release, inoculation density, incubation and out-planting.
Naomi Reyes ·
The greenbone — also called butterfish — is New Zealand's own kelp grazer, a beak-toothed odacid that changes sex, varies in colour, and moves kelp energy into fish.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A coastal atlas guide to Japan's Noto Peninsula: satoumi stewardship, ama divers, wakame culture and a coast remade by the 2024 earthquake.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Article 6 of the Paris Agreement sets the rules for trading carbon between countries. Here's how the rulebook reaches coastal and ocean projects.
Priya Raman ·
Along the Basque Country's flysch cliffs and fishing towns, kelp forests cling where the Bay of Biscay meets the warm edge of their European range. A guide.
Tom Okafor ·
A practical guide to pond and lagoon culture of Gracilaria — pond design, stocking, water exchange, harvest cycles and the agar and food markets it serves.
Naomi Reyes ·
Digital MRV — satellites, drones, acoustics, eDNA and machine learning — is collapsing the cost of verifying coastal carbon. Here's what works and what doesn't.
Priya Raman ·
A species profile of the yellowtail rockfish — the wide-ranging midwater schooler of Pacific rocky reefs, its life history, fishery, and how to tell it from its cousins.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A guide to Namibia's Skeleton Coast kelp — sea bamboo in cold Benguela water beside the world's oldest desert, guano islands, lobster fisheries and fog-shrouded forests.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Adding alkalinity near kelp forests could store carbon and buffer acidification locally. What the chemistry promises, what ecology warns, and the safeguards that count.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The striped trumpeter is Tasmania's celebrated hand-line fish — a kelp-reef juvenile, a deep-reef adult, and a lesson in how long-lived fish repay patience.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Kelp gametophytes are demanding housemates. Learn the temperature, light, filtration and nutrient regimes that keep seed cultures healthy until out-planting.
Naomi Reyes ·
The herring cale is a cigar-shaped, beak-toothed herbivore that grazes kelp across the Great Southern Reef — and moves its energy up the food web.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A practical guide to seaweed tempura — the batter science, the right oil temperature, and three seaweeds that fry to a shatteringly crisp finish in under two minutes.
Sofia Andersson ·