Field Notes9 min read
Field Notes: Spore Season in Southeast Alaska
Tidewright field note: three September weeks on Sitka Sound collecting kelp sorus — the wild reproduction tissue that seeds every Holdfast line we grow.
Jack Callum ·
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13 articles
Atlas9 min read
Glacier Bay, Alaska: New Kelp Forests on the Front Lines of Retreating Ice
Two centuries of retreating ice opened fjords that kelp, otters and whales are still colonising — a guide to Glacier Bay's young, fast-changing underwater forests.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas10 min read
The Gulf of Alaska: A Thousand Leagues of Kelp Shore
From Southeast Alaska's fjords to the Aleutian storm line, the Gulf of Alaska holds one of Earth's largest kelp coasts — and the otters it was built around.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas9 min read
Kodiak: Bears Above, Kelp Below on Alaska's Emerald Coast
Brown bears above, sea otters in the kelp below — a guide to the reefs, salmon rivers and cold-water richness of Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas8 min read
The Pribilof Islands: Kelp in the Middle of the Bering Sea
Four volcanic islands on the Bering Sea shelf — half the world's northern fur seals, millions of seabirds, sea ice to the doorstep, and kelp along the rims.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas8 min read
Prince William Sound: Kelp Recovery in a Fjorded Sea
Glacial fjords, returning sea otters and slow kelp regrowth after oil and ice loss — a field guide to Prince William Sound, Alaska's living laboratory.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas8 min read
Sitka Sound: Herring, Kelp and Cultures of the Inside Passage
Herring spawn on kelp, whales hunt the shoals, and Tlingit stewardship runs millennia deep — a guide to the kelp ecosystems of Sitka Sound, Alaska.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas10 min read
The Aleutian Islands: Where Science Learned What Otters Are For
A 1,900-kilometre arc of volcano, fog and kelp strung between Alaska and Siberia — the coastline that taught ecologists how sea otters hold kelp forests together.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas9 min read
Cook Inlet, Alaska: Kelp Beds in the Land of Bore Tides
Cook Inlet is Alaska's great tidal estuary — bore tides, glacial silt, belugas and salmon, with rich cold-water kelp beds in its clear pockets. A Coastal Atlas guide.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas9 min read
The Aleutian Islands: The Wildest Kelp Frontier in the Pacific
A Coastal Atlas field guide to the Aleutians — the Pacific's most remote great kelp forest, its weather, its war, and how to get there.
Jack Callum ·
Encyclopedia9 min read
Masked Greenling: The Northern Kelp Bed's Ambush Watcher
The masked greenling is a small, dark-barred reef fish of Alaska's shallow kelp and eelgrass beds. How to identify it — and the nest-guarding life it leads.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas9 min read
Resurrection Bay: Seward's Deep-Water Fjord of Kelp and Glaciers
A Coastal Atlas guide to Seward's Resurrection Bay — fjord walls, deep dock water, kelp fringes, wildlife and Alaska's most accessible diving.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas9 min read
Kachemak Bay: Where the Tides Race and the Kelp Runs Deep
A Coastal Atlas guide to Alaska's Kachemak Bay — nine-metre tides, famed seaweed diversity, otter-held kelp beds, kelp farms and how to visit from Homer.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·