12 articles
How disabled people, older visitors and carers can plan genuinely accessible kelp-coast days: beach mats, adaptive diving, low-tide planning and the right questions.
Tom Okafor ·
Cape Arago's sandstone reefs hold Oregon's best tidepools, a sea lion haulout, and bull kelp gardens shaped by wild storms. A coastal atlas guide.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The opalescent nudibranch steals stinging cells from its anemone prey and wields them as weapons. Learn to identify Hermissenda crassicornis and its world.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The opaleye is a herbivorous sea chub with opal-blue eyes that shapes California's shallow reefs from tidepools to kelp edges. Biology, diet and ecology.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The giant green anemone is a solar-powered predator of Pacific tidepools and kelp-forest edges. Its biology, symbiosis and decades-long life.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The rockweed gunnel is a slender Pacific shore fish so perfectly matched to seaweed butter and olive tones that it looks like the rockweed itself.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Soft as jelly, clinging like a limpet: the kelp snailfish lives where the forest meets the rock. Identification, ecology and where to look for one.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Meet the California sea hare, the kelp forest's purple-inking giant sea slug: what it eats, why it inks, and how it helped decode memory.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Meet the crescent gunnel — the crescent-marked, rock-flipping eel-lookalike of Pacific tidepools, and why its colours make it a barometer of the weed it lives in.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Stalked jellyfish are thumbnail-sized staurozoans that grip kelp fronds with a sticky foot and never swim. A guide to finding these hidden kelp forest gems.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Black tegula (Tegula funebralis) rules the high tide line of the Pacific coast — a decades-lived black turban snail whose grazing shapes kelp recruitment.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
How to identify the rainbow surfperch: pattern by pattern, season by season — and where to find this coral-coloured fish among the kelp beds and wharves.
Tom Okafor ·