Field notes and longer essays on the science and stories of the Pacific — its currents, its weather, and the communities along its edge.
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Reading the Currents
How a tangle of surface and deep flows moves heat across the Pacific — and why a small shift offshore can change a whole coastline's weather.
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The Warm Blob Returns
A marine heatwave is building in the northeast Pacific again. Here is what the last one taught us, and what to watch for this time.
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Tidepools at Dawn
An early-morning walk through the intertidal zone, and a small case for paying closer attention to the few feet of shore the sea lends us twice a day.