Chris Neufeld
@cneufeld.bsky.social
Ocean scientist. Coastal ecologist. Senior Aquatic Biologist at LGL Limited. Dad. Grower of food. Rider of bikes.
My coffee is telling me that I need to go camping 🔥⛺️.
June 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
My coffee is telling me that I need to go camping 🔥⛺️.
Rather than signing with the conventional, "Chris", AI-enabled MS Outlook has recently decided that my emails will be betters signed as "Christmas". Super helpful when writing work emails.
May 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Rather than signing with the conventional, "Chris", AI-enabled MS Outlook has recently decided that my emails will be betters signed as "Christmas". Super helpful when writing work emails.
For anyone who grew up in 🇨🇦 in the '80s, this will make sense... #beachcombers, #relic
May 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
For anyone who grew up in 🇨🇦 in the '80s, this will make sense... #beachcombers, #relic
What a week working with Huu-ay-aht First Nations staff, citizens and youth to establish an intertidal monitoring program for culturally-important species like ḥay̓ištup (black chiton)!
So long for now, Bamfield friends.
So long for now, Bamfield friends.
May 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
What a week working with Huu-ay-aht First Nations staff, citizens and youth to establish an intertidal monitoring program for culturally-important species like ḥay̓ištup (black chiton)!
So long for now, Bamfield friends.
So long for now, Bamfield friends.
For #PhycologyFriday, here's a smattering of gorgeous 🤩 NE Pacific kelps, including Laminaria setchellii, Costaria costata, Egregia menziesii, Alaria marginata, and a few other seaweeds for good measure.
Hope all who celebrate are enjoying this week's minus tides! #marinelife #intertidal 🐙
Hope all who celebrate are enjoying this week's minus tides! #marinelife #intertidal 🐙
May 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
For #PhycologyFriday, here's a smattering of gorgeous 🤩 NE Pacific kelps, including Laminaria setchellii, Costaria costata, Egregia menziesii, Alaria marginata, and a few other seaweeds for good measure.
Hope all who celebrate are enjoying this week's minus tides! #marinelife #intertidal 🐙
Hope all who celebrate are enjoying this week's minus tides! #marinelife #intertidal 🐙
To everyone fighting for a fact-based and democratic society, I offer you some rays of hope from this 🇨🇦 sea star.
May 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
To everyone fighting for a fact-based and democratic society, I offer you some rays of hope from this 🇨🇦 sea star.
May 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Day 3 of minus tide surveys on Vancouver Island. Plenty of cool finds...
1. Granular claw crab. Most were sealed up in old barnacle shells, with their claw as a door, but this one was feeling adventurous.
2. Lined chiton 😍
3. Baby ochre star 🤩
4. Bonus tidepool pic
🦑 #InverteFest #MarineLife
1. Granular claw crab. Most were sealed up in old barnacle shells, with their claw as a door, but this one was feeling adventurous.
2. Lined chiton 😍
3. Baby ochre star 🤩
4. Bonus tidepool pic
🦑 #InverteFest #MarineLife
April 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Day 3 of minus tide surveys on Vancouver Island. Plenty of cool finds...
1. Granular claw crab. Most were sealed up in old barnacle shells, with their claw as a door, but this one was feeling adventurous.
2. Lined chiton 😍
3. Baby ochre star 🤩
4. Bonus tidepool pic
🦑 #InverteFest #MarineLife
1. Granular claw crab. Most were sealed up in old barnacle shells, with their claw as a door, but this one was feeling adventurous.
2. Lined chiton 😍
3. Baby ochre star 🤩
4. Bonus tidepool pic
🦑 #InverteFest #MarineLife
🦑 #marinelife #Invertefest finds from today's fieldwork on Vancouver Island:
1 Tar spot seacucumbers!
2. All 3 species of Nucella in the same quadrat (L-R: lamellosa, canaliculata, ostrina)
3. A 2-armed ochre star
4. Amorous leopard nudibranchs blending in with a sponge they eat
1 Tar spot seacucumbers!
2. All 3 species of Nucella in the same quadrat (L-R: lamellosa, canaliculata, ostrina)
3. A 2-armed ochre star
4. Amorous leopard nudibranchs blending in with a sponge they eat
April 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
🦑 #marinelife #Invertefest finds from today's fieldwork on Vancouver Island:
1 Tar spot seacucumbers!
2. All 3 species of Nucella in the same quadrat (L-R: lamellosa, canaliculata, ostrina)
3. A 2-armed ochre star
4. Amorous leopard nudibranchs blending in with a sponge they eat
1 Tar spot seacucumbers!
2. All 3 species of Nucella in the same quadrat (L-R: lamellosa, canaliculata, ostrina)
3. A 2-armed ochre star
4. Amorous leopard nudibranchs blending in with a sponge they eat
When I do fieldwork in this one little coastal town, I get to walk past this fence window every day. Today it was looking particularly nice 😍.
April 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
When I do fieldwork in this one little coastal town, I get to walk past this fence window every day. Today it was looking particularly nice 😍.
Posting this mating pair of kelp isopods (Pentidotea wosnesenskii) for #InverteFest.
They actively participated in our intertidal survey this morning by hopping righ onto the transect tape to get measured, at a whopping 4 cm no less, close to the max. size recorded for this species.
They actively participated in our intertidal survey this morning by hopping righ onto the transect tape to get measured, at a whopping 4 cm no less, close to the max. size recorded for this species.
April 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Posting this mating pair of kelp isopods (Pentidotea wosnesenskii) for #InverteFest.
They actively participated in our intertidal survey this morning by hopping righ onto the transect tape to get measured, at a whopping 4 cm no less, close to the max. size recorded for this species.
They actively participated in our intertidal survey this morning by hopping righ onto the transect tape to get measured, at a whopping 4 cm no less, close to the max. size recorded for this species.
🌷 Peak tulip 🌷 in our backyard.
April 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
🌷 Peak tulip 🌷 in our backyard.
Early spring textures
April 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Early spring textures
The Canadian Rockies offered up some serious drama yesterday.
April 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Canadian Rockies offered up some serious drama yesterday.
Behold!
🐡a gorgeous juvenile Silverspotted sculpin (Blepsias cirrhosus) posing as #kelp
🌿a green alga known as 'Dead man's fingers' (Codium fragile, bottom) posing as... well ... fingers (real fingers, top right, for comparison)
#MarineLife #PhycologyFriday
🐡a gorgeous juvenile Silverspotted sculpin (Blepsias cirrhosus) posing as #kelp
🌿a green alga known as 'Dead man's fingers' (Codium fragile, bottom) posing as... well ... fingers (real fingers, top right, for comparison)
#MarineLife #PhycologyFriday
March 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Behold!
🐡a gorgeous juvenile Silverspotted sculpin (Blepsias cirrhosus) posing as #kelp
🌿a green alga known as 'Dead man's fingers' (Codium fragile, bottom) posing as... well ... fingers (real fingers, top right, for comparison)
#MarineLife #PhycologyFriday
🐡a gorgeous juvenile Silverspotted sculpin (Blepsias cirrhosus) posing as #kelp
🌿a green alga known as 'Dead man's fingers' (Codium fragile, bottom) posing as... well ... fingers (real fingers, top right, for comparison)
#MarineLife #PhycologyFriday
🚨New Study🚨showing that Macrocystis and Nereocystis #kelp canopy cover has remained relatively stable through several decades in a cool-water region of central BC, Canada. #PhycologyFriday 🧪🐙
👏This was a huge effort led by Lauren with many great collaborators 👏
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
👏This was a huge effort led by Lauren with many great collaborators 👏
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
March 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
🚨New Study🚨showing that Macrocystis and Nereocystis #kelp canopy cover has remained relatively stable through several decades in a cool-water region of central BC, Canada. #PhycologyFriday 🧪🐙
👏This was a huge effort led by Lauren with many great collaborators 👏
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
👏This was a huge effort led by Lauren with many great collaborators 👏
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
Pizza night required a reminder of a common conversion. Yep, that tracks. Love this AI stuff.
March 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Pizza night required a reminder of a common conversion. Yep, that tracks. Love this AI stuff.
What will happen if one enters the forbidden square? 🤷♂️
March 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
What will happen if one enters the forbidden square? 🤷♂️
Spotted recently in my neighborhood.
March 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Spotted recently in my neighborhood.
What kids learn, vs. how some adults behave...
Words of wisdom, and some coping strategies to calm down when things aren't going your way, from recent parent teacher interviews.
Words of wisdom, and some coping strategies to calm down when things aren't going your way, from recent parent teacher interviews.
March 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
What kids learn, vs. how some adults behave...
Words of wisdom, and some coping strategies to calm down when things aren't going your way, from recent parent teacher interviews.
Words of wisdom, and some coping strategies to calm down when things aren't going your way, from recent parent teacher interviews.
A belated #PhycologyFriday shout-out to the CBC!
While working on this paper, we discovered that one can make a credible Canadian Broadcasting Corporation logo from the stipes of some perennial kelps.
This one is made from a 2-year-old Laminaria setchelii from Barkley Sound, BC, Canada.
While working on this paper, we discovered that one can make a credible Canadian Broadcasting Corporation logo from the stipes of some perennial kelps.
This one is made from a 2-year-old Laminaria setchelii from Barkley Sound, BC, Canada.
March 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A belated #PhycologyFriday shout-out to the CBC!
While working on this paper, we discovered that one can make a credible Canadian Broadcasting Corporation logo from the stipes of some perennial kelps.
This one is made from a 2-year-old Laminaria setchelii from Barkley Sound, BC, Canada.
While working on this paper, we discovered that one can make a credible Canadian Broadcasting Corporation logo from the stipes of some perennial kelps.
This one is made from a 2-year-old Laminaria setchelii from Barkley Sound, BC, Canada.
From the edge of the Pacific in BC, Canada...
I offer the compact but mighty 'Sea Palm', Postelsia palmaeformis, for this #PhycologyFriday.
"I will bend but I will not break"
I offer the compact but mighty 'Sea Palm', Postelsia palmaeformis, for this #PhycologyFriday.
"I will bend but I will not break"
February 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
From the edge of the Pacific in BC, Canada...
I offer the compact but mighty 'Sea Palm', Postelsia palmaeformis, for this #PhycologyFriday.
"I will bend but I will not break"
I offer the compact but mighty 'Sea Palm', Postelsia palmaeformis, for this #PhycologyFriday.
"I will bend but I will not break"
On the way to Victoria for work, just now realizing that I forgot my rain jacket 👀
February 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
On the way to Victoria for work, just now realizing that I forgot my rain jacket 👀