Encyclopedia8 min read
Tidepool Sculpin: The Small Fish Built for Hard Times
Meet the tidepool sculpin, the Pacific's toughest little fish: how it survives heat, low oxygen and hours out of water — and finds its way home.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
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.
Explore8 min read
Fish Identification for Beginners: Learning to See Individual Faces Underwater
A beginner's method for identifying reef fish: the five-feature order that works underwater, how to use guides, and practice drills that turn 'a fish' into a species name.
Tom Okafor ·
Explore9 min read
Kayak Fishing Over Kelp: Catching Dinner Without Wrecking the Forest
How to kayak fish over kelp beds the right way — target species, tackle choices, gentle handling, and staying legal and light in fragile forest habitat.
Tom Okafor ·
Blue Carbon9 min read
Blue Natural Capital Accounts: Putting Ocean Ecosystems on the Balance Sheet
Natural capital accounting puts ocean ecosystems onto balance sheets. What's counted, who counts it, and how it changes decisions about the coast.
Priya Raman ·
Blue Carbon8 min read
Buffer Pools: The Insurance Policy Behind Creditable Kelp Carbon
Buffer pools are the insurance behind every credible kelp carbon credit. How they are sized, what a marine heatwave triggers, and what buyers should ask.
Priya Raman ·
Atlas8 min read
Kelp Forests of South Africa: Where Two Oceans Grow One Forest
A guide to South Africa's kelp forests — towering sea bamboo in cold Benguela water, abalone farms, great white sharks, and an Atlantic-Pacific meeting of seas.
Naomi Reyes ·
Blue Carbon11 min read
The Carbon Value of Marine Protected Areas
Marine protected areas shelter the ocean's stored carbon. Here's where that carbon sits, what protection actually saves, and whether it can earn credits.
Priya Raman ·
Careers8 min read
Mapping the Ocean: Careers in Marine GIS and Spatial Data
Marine GIS analysts turn sonar, satellite and survey data into the maps coasts are managed by. Here's what the work involves and how to break in.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Blue Carbon8 min read
Reconnecting the Tide: Carbon Gains from Restoring Coastal Wetlands
How removing dikes and restoring tidal flow revives sediment carbon storage in salt marshes and mangroves — and where the credited carbon actually comes from.
Priya Raman ·
Atlas9 min read
The Yellow Sea: Where Kelp Farming Feeds a Nation
A coastal atlas guide to the Yellow Sea: the heartland of world kelp farming, from Qingdao's kombu rafts to green tides and a shallow, changing sea.
Naomi Reyes ·
Atlas9 min read
Boston Harbor Islands: Kelp's Comeback Beside a Cleaned-Up City
Boston's harbor went from punchline to one of America's cleanest urban seas, and kelp came back with it. A guide to the islands' underwater forests.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Western Blue Groper (Achoerodus gouldii): Species Profile
Meet the western blue groper — Western Australia's giant blue wrasse of the kelp reefs, an urchin-eating patriarch that can live more than half a century.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Explore9 min read
Kayak Camping on Kelp Coasts: A Multi-Day Guide
How to plan a multi-day sea kayak trip along a kelp coastline — route shape, tide and swell strategy, landing through kelp beds, and camping with a light footprint.
Tom Okafor ·
Explore12 min read
Keeping a Drysuit Dry: Care, Seals and Leak Repair for Cold-Water Divers
A drysuit is the best investment in cold-water diving — if you keep it dry. Complete guide to zip care, seal replacement, leak-hunting and field repairs.
Tom Okafor ·
Farming9 min read
Kelp Farms as Destinations: Adding Tourism and Education Revenue
How seaweed farms can add tours, snorkel visits and school programs as a second income — the permits, safety planning, pricing and pitfalls that make it work.
Naomi Reyes ·
Kitchen6 min read
Making Fish Flavours Without Fish: Seaweed in Plant-Based Cooking
How to build convincing seafood flavour in vegan cooking using nori, dulse, kelp and kombu — the chemistry, the techniques, and eight dishes to start with.
Sofia Andersson ·
Explore8 min read
Filming the Forest: Action-Camera Video Tips for Kelp
How to shoot smooth, colourful underwater video in a kelp forest with an action camera — the settings, lights, mounts and slow moves that separate footage from mush.
Tom Okafor ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Pacific Angel Shark: The Flat Ambush Predator of the Kelp Floor
Meet the Pacific angelshark, the sand-buried ambusher of California's kelp edges: how it hunts, how it nearly vanished, and how it came back.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas9 min read
Kelp at the Edge: The Northern Gulf of California's Warm-Water Forests
A coastal atlas guide to the northern Gulf of California: the warm-water edge of kelp, Eisenia arborea forests, tidal mixing and a sea under heat stress.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas8 min read
Kelp Forests of Ise-Shima and the Ama Divers of Japan
A guide to Ise-Shima's warm-temperate seaweed forests, the ama divers who have worked them for millennia, and the warming waters reshaping Japan's coastal seas.
Tom Okafor ·
Explore8 min read
Joining a Reef or Beach Cleanup: How to Make the Data Count
How to join a reef or beach cleanup above or below the waterline — and how to record what you find so it becomes useful citizen-science data, not just a trash run.
Tom Okafor ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Pigeon Guillemot: The Red-Footed Diver of the Kelp Coast
Meet the pigeon guillemot: the black-and-white auk with scarlet feet that nests in shoreline crevices and hunts sculpins through kelp beds.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas9 min read
The Portuguese Kelp Edge: Cascais to the Atlantic's Warm Turn
From Cascais to Cabo da Roca, Portugal's kelp grows at the warm southern edge of its range. A guide to the coast where forests thin and science watches closely.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Careers7 min read
Becoming a Scientific Diver: Training, Certification and the Real Working Life
How to qualify as a working scientific diver: recreational certs, scientific diver programs, the real job market, and what a career underwater actually costs.
Tom Okafor ·