{"id":5947,"date":"2005-06-08T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/the-kelp-forest-part-i\/"},"modified":"2021-07-15T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T00:06:09","slug":"the-kelp-forest-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/the-kelp-forest-part-i.html","title":{"rendered":"The Kelp Forest :: Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first experience with seaweed<\/a> was as a kid combing the shores of Newport Beach where I grew up. After storms my brother and I would find clumps of the brown stuff pushed up the beach. We would pick through them to pop the small bubbles<\/a> attached to the leaves. If the seaweed was fresh and still had its rootball<\/a> attached, we would break it apart to reveal a mix of tiny animals: brittle stars<\/a>, baby octopus, urchins<\/a>, crabs, little shells and worms<\/a>. The glimpses of marine life that seaweed brought to our shore triggered a childhood curiosity in the ocean and its inhabitants. Yet it was not until I began diving in kelp<\/a> that I gained a fuller appreciation of the ocean world.<\/p>\n

Continued…<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Kelp<\/a><\/p>\n

Kelp forest.
\nImage ID: 04651<\/a>
\nSpecies: Giant kelp<\/a>, Macrocystis pyrifera<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: San Clemente Island<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/a><\/p>\n

Jack mackerel schooling amid kelp forest.
\nImage ID: 00256<\/a>
\nSpecies: Pacific jack mackerel<\/a>, Trachurus symmetricus<\/i><\/a>, Macrocystis pyrifera<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: San Clemente Island<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Kelp<\/a><\/p>\n

Kelp plants growing toward surface and spreading to form a canopy.
\nImage ID: 01293<\/a>
\nSpecies: Giant kelp<\/a>, Macrocystis pyrifera<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: San Clemente Island<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Kelp<\/a><\/p>\n

Kelp fronds and forest.
\nImage ID: 01497<\/a>
\nSpecies: Giant kelp<\/a>, Macrocystis pyrifera<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: San Clemente Island<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

For more photos of the kelp forest, see http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/html\/kelp.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first experience with seaweed was as a kid combing the shores of Newport Beach where I grew up. After storms my brother and I would find clumps of the brown stuff pushed up the beach. We would pick through them to pop the small bubbles attached to the leaves….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,95,400,115,122],"tags":[221,248,330],"class_list":{"0":"post-5947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"category-natural-world","9":"category-san-clemente-island","10":"category-stories","11":"category-underwater-life","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-giant-kelp","14":"tag-underwater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}