Field Notes8 min read
Field Notes: Reading the Wrack Line with Volunteers
A Tidewright field note: twice a year, volunteers walk Tasmania's beaches counting cast kelp — because the wrack line tells us what the reef can't.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
#kelp-monitoring
4 articles
Blue Carbon12 min read
Eyes in the Sky: Remote Sensing for Kelp and Blue Carbon
Satellites have tracked giant kelp canopies since the 1980s. How remote sensing maps kelp forests, feeds carbon accounting, and where the pixels stop short.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Field Notes8 min read
Field Notes: Reading the Winter Swell on Mendocino's Barren Edge
A Tidewright field dispatch from Mendocino's winter monitoring season: working the barren-edge transects in the windows between storms.
Jack Callum ·
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 ·