Field Notes8 min read
Field Notes: Returning to Lofoten in the Dark Season
In eight weeks the light goes at 68° north. What Lofoten's first seeded lines did through their first summer, and the plan for going back in.
Jack Callum ·
#norway
11 articles
Field Notes9 min read
Field Notes: The First Harvest in Lofoten
Eighteen months after Lofoten's polar-night seeding, the sugar kelp belt met its first harvest. Field notes from the week the fleet got paid in kelp.
Jack Callum ·
Atlas9 min read
Senja and Arctic Norway's Mainland: Kelp Where the Fjords Meet the Barents Sea
Senja and Norway's Barents coast grow clear-water Arctic kelp patrolled by orcas. A regional guide to the kelp, cod and whales of the high north.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas8 min read
Norway's Taretrawling Coast: How Industrial Harvest Shaped a Kelp Nation
Norway turned wild kelp into an industry with trawls and a five-year rotation. The history, the ecosystem debate and what taretrawling taught the world.
Naomi Reyes ·
Atlas9 min read
Svalbard: Kelp Forests in the High Arctic
At 78°N, Svalbard's fjords hold kelp forests in polar light, growing under sea ice and beside glaciers. A guide to the High Arctic's underwater forests — and what's changing.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Tangle Kelp / Cuvie (Laminaria hyperborea): Europe's Forest-Former Species Profile
Laminaria hyperborea builds the kelp forests of Europe's cold coasts — with stiff stipes standing like an undersea grove. Biology, harvest history, ecology.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Atlas9 min read
Lofoten: Kelp Forests Under the Northern Lights
Inside the Arctic Circle, warm Atlantic water meets polar light cycles and grows some of Europe's richest kelp forests. A guide to Lofoten's underwater jungle.
Tom Okafor ·
Field Notes9 min read
Training for the Dark Months: Sea-Ice and Low-Light Operations at Our Lofoten Site
Before Tidewright's second Lofoten winter, the crew trained for sea ice, four-hour twilight and frozen shackles. Field notes from the course we built.
Jack Callum ·
Field Notes8 min read
Field Notes: First Lines in Lofoten — Seeding Sugar Kelp Through the Dark
Tidewright's northern-most program seeds sugar kelp through Lofoten's polar night, working from fishing boats at 68 degrees north. A field operations log.
Jack Callum ·
Atlas8 min read
Saltstraumen: Kelp Forests on the Rim of the World's Strongest Whirlpool
Six hours in, six hours out: how 400 million cubic metres of water roar through Norway's Saltstraumen, why kelp thrives beside the whirlpools, and how to dive it safely.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Atlas9 min read
Norway's Mid-Coast: From Trondheim to the Tangle Kelp Frontier
From Trondheimsfjorden to the skerries of Hitra and Frøya, mid-Norway holds some of Europe's finest tangle kelp forests. A coastal atlas guide.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·