7 articles
Tidewright field note from Lofoten: how a kelp nursery survives December — storm triage, line tensioning, and what three Atlantic gales teach a young crop.
Jack Callum ·
Kelp endures waves that would snap a rigid mast by going with the flow. The biomechanics of flexibility, reconfiguration and drag trade-offs in storm survival.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Storms turn coastal water murky, dimming the light kelp depends on. How turbidity works, where the sediment comes from, and how long forests stay in the dark.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A southerly storm wrapped two Holdfast lines into each other off Tasmania. The dive to untangle them — and the line-spacing rule that came out of it — from the field log.
Jack Callum ·
A September swell off Hokkaido took one Holdfast line whole. What losing Line Seven taught us about anchors, graceful failure and honest reporting.
Jack Callum ·
Mooring design makes or breaks a longline kelp farm: grid geometry, design loads, safety factors, and how to engineer a farm to survive its worst storm.
Naomi Reyes ·
A newly seeded kelp bed meets its first storm season. Notes on depth, spacing and which lines came through the winter with their heads up.
Jack Callum ·