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Clay Steell @claysteell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For #PhycologyFriday, sharing this new publication in @psaalgae.bsky.social Journal of Phycology! doi.org/10.1111/jpy.... Headed by Dr. Lauren Dykman, @cneufeld.bsky.social & @baumlab.bsky.social, with support from Amanda+Rob Zielinski, Matt Csordas, Alex Wiebe, & many more! #kelp #salishsea

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Blue Futures Kelp @bluefutureskelp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Checking in on this bio-banked Giant Kelp gametophyte cell culture, everyone's looking happy and healthy under the microscope 😌

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Clay Steell @claysteell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

If you're in Victoria this weekend come down to Finest At Sea for day 2, we'll be back tomorrow to continue sharing how the urchin fishery & eating urchins can help protect kelp forests! #yyj #vanisle #kelp #urchin #prawnfest @bluefutureskelp.bsky.social

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Clay Steell @claysteell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Had a blast today at Victoria's Prawnfest, talking kelp & urchins for @bluefutureskelp.bsky.social along with Pacific Urchin Harversters Association! Brought along some kelp gametophytes to show what culturing for restoration looks like #yyj #vanisle #kelp #urchin #prawnfest

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Blue Futures Kelp @bluefutureskelp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

What a week! Blue Futures Kelp was at the Huu-ay-aht First Nations Three Star Dark Sky Festival, joining a panel on mariculture & ocean science. Thank you to HFN & Foundry Events for hosting, highly recommend this festival for anyone else with a love of stars & sea! 🌊🪐

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Clay Steell @claysteell.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I’m excited to be a panelist at this year’s Three Stars Dark Sky Festival, happening May 8-10 in my old home on Huu-ay-aht territory! 🌌 📍Pathways: Between Land & Sky | House of Huu-ay-aht | 📆 Sunday, May 10 👉🎟️ Plan your visit: hgb.tickit.ca/events/34302... #vanisle #explorebc #kelp #darksky

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Amazing work showcasing the value of long-term monitoring data: Gerraty et al. document declines in the sea-palm #kelp #Postelsia associated w/ the 2014-16 northeast Pacific heatwave & failure to recover due to expansion of mussel beds during the seastar-wasting epidemic. 🤯🌊🦑 doi.org/10.1002/eap....

Sea palms - *Postelsia palmaeformis* - growing on a Northern California rocky reef. These stubby, amazing kelps grow in some of the most wave-exposed intertidal habitats, capitalizing on disturbances in the mussel beds to grow. They really do look like little palm trees, with long, shaggy blades growing from the tops of their hollow stipes. Somewhat astonishingly - though it makes sense once you consider their hollow stipes - their closest relative is the huge, canopy-forming bull kelp, *Nereocystis luetkeana*.

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Clay Steell @claysteell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I’ve recently been harvesting sea urchins with the crew of Seaworthy, a small fishing boat that sells our catch directly to customers on the dock! It’s been awesome to learn the ropes of a fishery that has huge potential to help kelp forests threatened by urchin overgrazing #urchin #kelp #vanisle

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Clay Steell @claysteell.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

For #PhycologyFriday, some views from the annual Pacific herring spawn dive surveys I’m working this year, exemplifying the importance of seaweeds as fish habitat! Seen in Toquaht and Huu-ay-aht territories, west Vancouver Island

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Blue Futures Kelp @bluefutureskelp.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

For #PhycologyFriday, check out this Giant Kelp gametophyte culture growing here at Blue Futures Kelp! Grown from spores collected in T’Sou’ke territory here on Vancouver Island, and propagating for conservation, education, and potential future research and restoration. #kelp #restoration #vanisle

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Blue Futures Kelp @bluefutureskelp.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

A new publication coauthored by Blue Future Kelp’s @claysteell.bsky.social is out, exploring the growing practice of #biobanking kelps for conservation & restoration. Read more below! 🌊 #PhycologyFriday #kelp

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Blue Futures Kelp @bluefutureskelp.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Earlier this fall, I was awarded an Ocean Action Grant by Ocean Wise to set up a gametophyte culturing lab & collect spores from a potentially vulnerable population of Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) for long term bio-banking! #kelp #kelpforest #conservation #restoration #ocean

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Blue Futures Kelp @bluefutureskelp.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Earlier this month, BFK ushered in the winter with its first diving contract 🤿 Using the @reeflifesurvey.bsky.social method, we collected biodiversity data for a client & their First Nation partner monitoring kelp / urchin barren dynamics, & also gathered urchin samples #kelp #kelpforest #urchin

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Clay Steell @claysteell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Thrilled to share what I’ve been working on lately: launching @bluefutureskelp.bsky.social! Ever since returning to phycology 5 years ago & researching #kelp restoration, I've been hooked, & I’m grateful to be continuing it in this new capacity. Follow along for updates & more kelpy content 🌊

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Blue Futures Kelp @bluefutureskelp.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Introducing Blue Futures Kelp, a new venture to restore kelp forests & advance restoration science in the northeast Pacific Ocean! Based in the unceded territories of Lekwungen peoples (Victoria, BC, Canada). Follow along to learn more! #kelp #kelpforest #restoration #SalishSea #vanisle

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