"Oh Buoy" | Bull Kelp Fine Art Print Size:5x7 paper with 8x10 matte A sea angel winged sea

A sea angel winged sea snail pteropod Cliopsis khronii under the sun of the Breakwater

seaweeds occupy space and clime within the multitude of coastal subtidal niches

"Irisistible" — January 2024's nudibranch sea slug: Dendronotus iris barber slug

A school of blue rockfish Sebastes mystinus meanders through a fresh grove of bull kelp repopulating a former urchin barren in Pacific Grove

"Oh Buoy" | Bull Kelp Fine Art Print Size:5x7 paper with 8x10 matte A sea angel winged seaA young bull kelp reaches for the sea surface in a successional forest growing in behind an urchin front in Monterey Bay. Kelp forests in California have two primary canopy forming species: Giant kelp, genus Macrocystis and bull kelp, genus Nereocystis. There are also a half dozen sub canopy forming kelps with fleshier or woody stipes that create extra habitat and resources for many organisms beneath the tall towers of bull and giant kelp, and then