A flower-shaped reef in the Kerguelen Islands?
NIR satellite imagery reveals a striking underwater structure hosting a ~2 km² kelp forest — and signs of regional decline.
Check out our new #BCEarthGallery article:
👉 bit.ly/4sHjeM8

#EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #Kelp #Ocean

Photo of a seaside scene. To the left is ocean. To the right is a beach with much of it covered in feet deep mounds of red and brown kelp. Some houses can be seen in the background.

Mounds of kelp/seaweed at a hometown beach. These kelp mounds happen many times per year, after storms/heavy seas. Locals(including me), for generations, have used this kelp to fertilize vegetable gardens. Photo from a few years ago, in Sept. #Newfoundland #agriculture #kelp #algae #vegetables

Ep. 10: Ocean currents create invisible barriers for marine forests on the move

Listen: podcasts.apple.com/pt/podcast/s...

#biodiversity #podcast #datascience #kelp #seagrass

Looking down through clear water at kelp restoration units

All of our restoration sites have been successfully outplanted for the year 🎉
Wish our kelp luck and stay tuned for updates from the monitoring team.
#Kelp #KelpRestoration #OceanConservation #VancouverIsland

Bull kelp fascinator
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#kelp #vitaminsea #stilllife #photography

Sea palms - *Postelsia palmaeformis* - growing on a Northern California rocky reef. These stubby, amazing kelps grow in some of the most wave-exposed intertidal habitats, capitalizing on disturbances in the mussel beds to grow. They really do look like little palm trees, with long, shaggy blades growing from the tops of their hollow stipes. Somewhat astonishingly - though it makes sense once you consider their hollow stipes - their closest relative is the huge, canopy-forming bull kelp, *Nereocystis luetkeana*.

Amazing work showcasing the value of long-term monitoring data: Gerraty et al. document declines in the sea-palm #kelp #Postelsia associated w/ the 2014-16 northeast Pacific heatwave & failure to recover due to expansion of mussel beds during the seastar-wasting epidemic. 🤯🌊🦑 doi.org/10.1002/eap....

Kelp Quest (Seattle Aquarium) | Zooniverse - People-powered research Explore the kelp forests of coastal Washington and directly impact the conservation and restoration of these critical habitats!

AWESOME NEW #KELP PROJECT ON @zooniverse.bsky.social - Go check out #KelpQuest Now! www.zooniverse.org/projects/zhr... #algae 🌊🧪🌍

New Research Develops Method to Predict Where Kelp Forests Grow A new study has created the first large-scale method to predict where kelp forests could be growing along Arctic coasts.

Predicting the distributions of high-latitude #kelp forests! Neat work by Castro de la Guardia et al. in @aslo.org L&O Methods: en.highnorthnews.com/politics/new...

Nice press write-up here:
en.highnorthnews.com/politics/new...

#Seaweed #MarineLife 🦑🌊

@jpgattuso.bsky.social @filbeek.bsky.social

#FYI #ClimateChat #DanMiller #LeonSimons #EliRabani #StaceyRandecker

#BrianvonHerzen on how and why to grow #kelp in the #ocean
#seaforestation

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

#Kelp 💙 for #PhycologyFriday! 🌊🦑

Meet ARKEV, our newest kelp outplanting method!

Designed for high grazing areas, ARKEVs suspend young kelp in the water column, out of reach of urchins and crabs, giving it time to grow and release spores back to the seafloor.

Curious about it? Ask away!

#KelpRestoration #OceanConservation #Kelp

This is excellent, please watch and share!

#GiantKelpRestorationProject #Kelp #Nature #Pacificocean

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF7E...

Sea otters are a vital part of our coastal ecosystems - and they’ve been missing from the Oregon coast for over a century. It’s time to bring them back 🦦 and restore balance to the marine environments we all depend on.

#oregoncoast #seaotters #seaotter #otters #oregon #elakhaalliance #kelp

High-resolution Planet Dove data identify local drivers of kelp canopy persistence - Communications Earth & Environment High-resolution kelp canopy maps from a convolutional neural network showed that kelp persistence after a marine heatwave was linked to pre-heatwave persistence, cooler sea surface temperatures, shall...

“We … created annual 3 m resolution maps from 2017 to 2024 across California.… [K]elp persistence … following a marine heatwave was … associated w/ persistence before the heatwave, cooler sea surface temperatures, shallow habitats, & reduced fragmentation.” #kelp 🌊🦑 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌍 It's #WorldScienceEducationDay! 🔬

Kids can become scientists with this hands-on #KELP (Kids Environmental Lesson Plans) activity exploring ocean acidification. They'll test pH levels and observe how rising acidity impacts shells and marine life.

More: https://sailorsforthesea.org/programs-kelp/

A painting of kelp with herring roe under water

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#herring #kelp #art

haiku #139

Bay wind salts the glass
Kelp forests sway under moons
Waves hush tired minds.

#haiku #resilience #poetsofbluesky #ocean
#sea #community #kelp #poet #myth

Amazing work by our amigos in Baja California! They evaluated responses of #Macrocystis #kelp & associated communities across 600km of the Baja coast after the 2014-16 heat wave & found striking differences in ecosystem transitions & resilience across the southern extent of giant kelp’s range. 🦑🌊

From Classic Yokai Watch to others! There are many characters to collect in Sukio Evolution

#Yokai #SukioEvolution #RaidenGuy #YokaiWatch #Duck #Monsters #Discord #Game #Kelp #Dancing

Kelp beds at Iron Mine Bay in East Sooke Park

#EastSooke #kelp #oceanside #nature #VancouverIsland #WestCoastBestCoast

Linocut print black and white image of 2 bull kelp with flowing fronds

Linocut print of bull kelp in the flow.

#flowing #blueskyartshow #printmaking #kelp

An orange squid with its longer tentacles curled to fit the canvas. There's green kelp behind it and bubbles on the free spaces.

[Squid (2026 edition)]
A remake of one of my first panel paintings, if not the first one.

#VelaquantArt #IndieArtist #TraditionalArt #WatercolorArt #OriginalArt #MarineLife #Squid #Cephalopod #Kelp

Practice makes… competition 😅
Who do you think finished stringing their side of the ARKEV unit faster, left or right?

#KelpRestoration #PhycologyFriday #Kelp #OceanConservation

#Kelp gown! #PhycoFashion #PhycologyFriday

Bring back #Jefferson #sloth & #shasta #groundsloth repopulate #Joshua #trees let alone #kelp #Argentine sloth which should be supported by #surfers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2o... Too bad they were plagued by cave #vampire #bats www.salon.com/2024/08/23/m... #darwin #science #evolution #wildlife

🍌 Let's build an edible coral polyp! 🪸

In this hands-on KELP (#KidsEnvironmentalLessonPlans) activity—developed by @calacademy.bsky.social—students create a coral polyp using a banana, candy straws, sprinkles + crackers.

Learn more and download this lesson plan: https://bit.ly/41szqFy

#KELP

Today is #WorldWildlifeDay - a chance to celebrate the incredible diversity of wild plants and animals that make our planet thrive 🌎.

👏 Let’s honor, protect, and stand up for the wild.

#oregon #oregoncoast #wildlife #pnw #wildlifeconservation #ocean #seaotters #otters #whales #kelp

Kelp: The planet's other forest crisis The decline of California's kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013–17 has seen only minor recovery despite heroic efforts at restoration carried out by scientists, fishermen, coastal tribes, ...

"Kelp forests cover some 2.8 million square miles, more area than the Amazon rain forest, and generate some $500 billion a year in value."

phys.org/news/2026-02... #blueeconomy #blueplanet #complexecosystem #helpourkelp #kelp #kelpforest #lifesource #marineheatwaves #oceanwarming #threatened

kelp in tank at Monterey Bay Aquarium, photo by Marie Kazalia available on Shutterstock

kelp in tall tank with fish at coastal Monterey Bay Aquarium in California #aquatic #marine #kelp #fish #undersea