https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes Dispatches from Tidewright’s own restoration sites — what the crew saw, measured and learned on the water. (Tidewright’s own stories; fictional.) https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/abalone-back-in-the-quadrats https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/abalone-back-in-the-quadrats Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Seven years after seeding began on Tasmania's Lumeriah Coast, juvenile blacklip abalone are turning up in the monitoring quadrats again. Here's why that matters. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/chile-first-season https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/chile-first-season Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tidewright's first Humboldt Coast season: working alongside local diver unions, learning huiro protocols, and finding out what the Chilean coast teaches back. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/drifter-refit-day https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/drifter-refit-day Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A mid-life refit of Tidewright's hardest-worked vessel: what two seasons of reef surveys did to Drifter 7, and what the wear patterns taught the design team. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-bay-of-fires-survey https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-bay-of-fires-survey Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Six days on Tasmania's kelp front line: a day-by-day diary of the baseline survey that will decide where Tidewright's next restoration lines go. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-chile-first-sounding https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-chile-first-sounding Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Tidewright field note from Chile's Coquimbo coast: twelve days of sonar, CTD casts and dive transects to write the first baseline for our newest kelp program. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-drift-line-wrack-survey https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-drift-line-wrack-survey Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-drifter-nine-goes-quiet https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-drifter-nine-goes-quiet Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Drifter Nine stopped phoning home mid-survey off Mendocino. Field notes on the search, the recovery at sea and what the fault log told us afterward. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-drone-canopy-census https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-drone-canopy-census Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every March we fly every southern-hemisphere site at peak canopy. Twelve flights a day, dawn tides, and a data pipeline that turns pixels into a season's verdict. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-drone-mapping-mendocino https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-drone-mapping-mendocino Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A week flying multispectral drone surveys over Mendocino's recovering bull kelp: fog windows, canopy maths, and where the map still needs divers. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-first-credit-retired https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-first-credit-retired Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Field notes from the day Canopy Ledger's first verified carbon credit was retired — the registry paperwork, the hesitations, and what the crew made of the moment. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-halfway-buoy https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-halfway-buoy Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Tidewright field note from Tasmania's Lumeriah Coast: anchoring a monitoring buoy over the thousandth seeded hectare, and what a big round number is actually worth. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-hatchery-open-day https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-hatchery-open-day Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Tidewright field note from Triabunna: 300 neighbours, forty schoolkids and one microscope queue at the Holdfast kelp hatchery's first community open day. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-hokkaido-kombu-lessons https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-hokkaido-kombu-lessons Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A field note from Hokkaido's kombu coast: stone-beach drying, grading tables and the harvest craft that reshaped how Tidewright handles its own kelp. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-holdfast-census-urchins https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-holdfast-census-urchins Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Field notes from a winter holdfast census across a Tasmanian reseeding site: urchin counts on treated vs control transects, and what we changed for next season. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-holdfast-line-retrieval https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/field-notes/field-notes-holdfast-line-retrieval Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The first Holdfast lines we ever laid are three years old and due for retrieval. What biodegradable seeding lines look like after three winters — and what they taught us.