Contour-trace records
Each card carries its own elevation rings. Active records draw their contours; settled records hold them quiet.
01 / traceisobath
Three contour lines, and the whole shape is legible.
The signature trace wraps any record in concentric depth contours. The closer the rings, the steeper the change — a reading you understand before you read a single number.
Mean-tide baseline
Every section snaps to a wavering tide-line rather than a hard rule — the coral baseline is the datum everything is measured from.
Depth-gauge layout
A ticked sounding-rail runs down the page edge. Content sits in measured survey plates, not stacked boxes.
02 / logstation readings
The field log reads like a tide table, not a spreadsheet.
Dense data, softened: root-marker rows anchor each reading like a stem in the mud, alternating wash, and a state chip that recolours on the palette.
Salt Creek station · 24 h sounding
datum 1.2 m MTL| Reading | Time | Height | Salinity | Phase |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low slack | 04:18 | 0.31 m | 28.4 ppt | ebb |
| Flood onset | 07:02 | 1.06 m | 26.1 ppt | flood |
| High slack | 10:41 | 2.38 m | 22.7 ppt | spring |
| Ebb onset | 13:55 | 1.40 m | 24.9 ppt | ebb |
| Low slack | 16:47 | 0.44 m | 29.2 ppt | ebb |
03 / platespecimen
Pressed, washed, contoured.
The imagery is hand-kept naturalist field plates: a confident ink contour line, topographic rings wrapping the form, and granulating earth-pigment washes pooling tide-lines in the low ground. The page wears them like a survey clipped to a dark drafting board.
See a full plateBring your wetland data up to the tide-line.
Marisma is the design language for stations, surveys, and stewardship records — anything measured against a moving baseline.
Open the field log