https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal Deep, useful writing on kelp forests, ocean science, blue carbon, seaweed farming and ocean careers. 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/farming/abalone-kelp-feed https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/farming/abalone-kelp-feed Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Abalone are built to eat kelp, but feeding them well is a craft. Feed forms, rationing by size and temperature, delivery gear, and how kelp shapes growth, colour and health. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/abel-tasman-golden-bay https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/abel-tasman-golden-bay Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Granite headlands, golden sand and golden kelp: New Zealand's smallest national park meets scallop country at the top of the South Island. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/abrolhos-islands https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/abrolhos-islands Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Houtman Abrolhos hosts the Indian Ocean's southernmost coral reefs beside golden kelp beds — the live boundary where warm current meets temperate sea. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/explore/accessible-ocean-days https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/explore/accessible-ocean-days Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/science/acoustic-fish-surveys https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/science/acoustic-fish-surveys Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How do you count fish you can't see? Acoustic surveys use sonar to turn echoes into biomass estimates. Here's how echosounders work — and their limits. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/blue-carbon/additionality-tests-explained https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/blue-carbon/additionality-tests-explained Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Additionality sounds abstract until you read the tests: barrier analysis, investment analysis, common practice. Here's how verifiers run them — and where they bend. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/kitchen/agar-agar-desserts-guide https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/kitchen/agar-agar-desserts-guide Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Master agar-agar in desserts: exact ratios for soft and firm sets, kanten classics from coffee jelly to mizu yokan, and fixes for every common agar failure. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/farming/alaria-farming-guide https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/farming/alaria-farming-guide Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A working grow-out protocol for winged kelp (Alaria esculenta): hatchery timing, seeding, line management, harvest cuts and the failure modes that sink first crops. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/alaska-peninsula-kelp https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/alaska-peninsula-kelp Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT An 800-km volcanic chain between the North Pacific and the Bering Sea — passes, salmon rivers, cold kelp forests on one side, sand on the other. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/amakusa-seaweed-coast https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/amakusa-seaweed-coast Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A seaweed guide to the Amakusa islands of Kumamoto: Ariake Sea nori farms, dolphin straits, hidden-Christian villages, and Japan's biggest tides. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/science/amoc-explained https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/science/amoc-explained Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How the Atlantic's great overturning circulation works, what the observations say about its strength, and why its slowing matters for climate and coasts. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/amsterdam-island-kelp https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/amsterdam-island-kelp Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Giant kelp at the warm edge of its range, albatrosses that breed nowhere else, and a scientists-only island: a guide to the kelp coast of Amsterdam Island. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/anacapa-island https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/anacapa-island Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anacapa is the nearest of the Channel Islands — an hour from Ventura, a world away underwater. Its kelp beds, conservation wins and how to dive them. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/anglesey-coast https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/anglesey-coast Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tidal races, seabird cliffs and reefs of tangle kelp — a guide to the Anglesey coast, Wales' great island corner of the Irish Sea, underwater and above. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/science/annual-vs-perennial-kelp https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/science/annual-vs-perennial-kelp Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Some kelps live one season, others many years. What annual vs perennial life strategies mean for forest dynamics, storm recovery — and choosing restoration species. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/antarctic-peninsula-seaweed-forests https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/antarctic-peninsula-seaweed-forests Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT No true kelp grows south of the Antarctic polar front, yet the Peninsula guards seaweed forests of its own. A guide to the frozen edge. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/careers/aquatic-veterinarian-career https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/careers/aquatic-veterinarian-career Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How to become an aquatic or fish veterinarian: vet school route, residencies and certifications, aquaculture health work, employers and honest pay. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/kitchen/arame-hijiki-pantry-guide https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/kitchen/arame-hijiki-pantry-guide Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A cook's guide to arame and hijiki: what they are, how to prep and simmer them, classic recipes, and an honest look at the hijiki arsenic debate. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/kitchen/arame-recipes-beyond-salad https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/kitchen/arame-recipes-beyond-salad Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Arame is mild, sweet and cooks in minutes. Learn to sauté it with roots, simmer it with tofu and fold it into rice — plus soaking and seasoning rules. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/science/argo-floats-explained https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/science/argo-floats-explained Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nearly 4,000 drifting robots take the ocean's temperature from within. How Argo profiling floats work, what they measure, and why the data is free. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/arraial-do-cabo-upwelling https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/atlas/arraial-do-cabo-upwelling Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A region guide to Arraial do Cabo — the wind-driven upwelling that chills Brazil's warm coast, its kelp-like Sargassum beds, rich reefs and dive-season rhythms. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/farming/asparagopsis-farming https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/farming/asparagopsis-farming Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Asparagopsis fed to cattle slashes methane emissions, and farmers want to grow it. The biology, the tank systems, the hard problems and what to know before trying. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/kitchen/atlantic-seaweed-cooking https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/kitchen/atlantic-seaweed-cooking Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A cook's tour of Atlantic Europe's seaweed traditions — laverbread, dulse snacks, carrageen puddings, Brittany's tables — with home-cookable versions of each. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/atlantic-wolffish https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/atlantic-wolffish Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Meet the Atlantic wolffish — a fanged, antifreeze-blooded reef fish that crushes sea urchins and has declined badly from trawl bycatch.