Atlas8 min read
Barkley Sound and Bamfield: A Working Fjord of Kelp and Research
How a boardwalk village at the end of a gravel road became Canada's marine-science capital, and how to visit the kelp fjord it has studied for fifty years.
Tom Okafor ·
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15 articles
Atlas9 min read
Clayoquot Sound: Kelp Beds Beneath the Ancient Rainforest
Fjords, surf beaches and kelp forests in one of Canada's most storied sounds — marine life, Nuu-chah-nulth stewardship and a famous conservation history.
Jack Callum ·
Atlas6 min read
Dive Guide: Whytecliff Park — Vancouver's Front-Yard Kelp Wall
Whytecliff Park is Vancouver's classic shore dive: a protected bay, a plumose-covered wall and bull kelp in Howe Sound. Full access, routes and wildlife guide.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas11 min read
Kelp Forests of the Great Bear Rainforest: A Coastal Atlas Guide
A coastal atlas guide to the kelp coast of the Great Bear Rainforest — BC's wild archipelago of bull kelp, giant kelp, sea otters, spirit bears and deep human tenure.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas12 min read
Hakai Passage: Cold Green Water on British Columbia's Central Coast
A coastal atlas guide to BC's Central Coast and Hakai Passage — double-canopy kelp, returning sea otters, herring spawn and deep human history in cold green water.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas11 min read
Howe Sound: The Kelp Comeback Fjord at Vancouver's Doorstep
Howe Sound recovered from a century of industrial pollution to glass sponge reefs, returning orcas and thickening bull kelp — an atlas guide to BC's comeback fjord.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Encyclopedia10 min read
Northern Abalone: Canada's Pinto, the Endangered Grazer
The pinto abalone is the small, iridescent grazer of the northeast Pacific — endangered since the 1990s and the focus of a careful hatchery recovery effort.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Encyclopedia9 min read
Pacific Herring: The Egg-Laying Event That Turns Shores White
Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii): the life cycle behind the spawn that whitens beaches, the predators it feeds, and why kelp beds still matter.
Tom Okafor ·
Encyclopedia9 min read
Spot Prawn: The Kelp-Edge Delicacy With a Complicated Life
The spot prawn lives half its life male and half female, hides in cold rocky depths, and anchors one of the Pacific's most admired trap fisheries.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas7 min read
Strait of Georgia: Kelp, Islands and Estuary Water Between Vancouver Island and the Mainland
Between Vancouver Island and the BC mainland, the Fraser River's plume shapes bull kelp beds, herring spawns and whale water. A coastal atlas guide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas9 min read
Vancouver Island's Wild West Coast: Kelp, Surge and the Edge of the Shelf
Beyond the famous sounds lie full-swell reefs, shelf-edge upwelling and wilderness kelp. A guide to Vancouver Island's outer coast — and how to reach it.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas10 min read
Haida Gwaii: Kelp Forests at the Edge of the Continent
Ninety kilometres of black ocean off northern British Columbia, an archipelago of giant kelp, ancient villages and Haida co-management — kelp country at its most sovereign.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Atlas10 min read
Vancouver Island's Wild West Coast: Kelp, Otters and the Pacific Rim
Barkley Sound, Clayoquot Sound and the full weight of the open Pacific: how Vancouver Island's west coast became Canada's kelp laboratory and its best cold-water wild coast.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas11 min read
Kelp Forests of Vancouver Island: Sea Otters, Bull Kelp and First Nations Stewardship
An island-wide guide to Vancouver Island's kelp forests: bull kelp surf coasts, sea otter recovery, and the First Nations stewardship shaping their future.
Tom Okafor ·
Encyclopedia7 min read
Walleye Surfperch (Hyperprosopon argenteum): Silver Flashes in the Kelp Surge
Identifying the walleye surfperch: the big-eyed, silver schooler of kelp edges and sand flats, and a member of the ocean's great live-bearing family.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·