The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum’s (SBMM) upcoming exhibit Redwoods of the Sea: Life in the Channel Islands Kelp Forests featuring images by naturalist and underwater photographer Ralph A. Clevenger ...

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

It’s Saturday afternoon and the Birch Aquarium is swimming with families. There are a lot of kids in the “Hold Fast” exhibit about kelp forests. They’re running through a display of 27 kelp plant ...

Nicknamed the “king of the kelp forest,” giant sea bass are among scuba divers’ favorite characters to spot off the California Coast. But very few of these charismatic fish remain. A team led by ...

A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning to do her part to save Northern California's vanishing kelp ...

In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators. Oriana Poindexter is a marine scientist with an extensive background in ...

CASPAR BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning to do her part to save Northern ...

CASPAR BEACH — A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning to do her part to save Northern California’s ...