Marine scientists have a new view of the giant kelp in the Pacific Ocean–through a scuba mask and a satellite’s “eye.” Forests of giant kelp, or Macrocystis pyrifera, are found in temperate coastal ...

Scientists at UCSB have developed new methods for studying how environmental factors and climate affect giant kelp forest ecosystems at unprecedented spatial and temporal scales. The scientists merged ...

Marine scientists have a new view of the giant kelp in the Pacific Ocean–through a scuba mask and a satellite’s “eye.” Forests of giant kelp, or Macrocystis pyrifera, are found in temperate coastal ...

Over the past 134 years, the giant kelp forests off the coast of Southern California have been studied by marine scientists at labs such as UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La ...

The top of the kelp forest emerges from the surface of the Monterey Bay recently as a pelican wings by a resting paddler near Lighthouse Point in Santa Cruz. Held upright by gas-filled bladders at the ...