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Dr Luis Huckstadt
@luishuckstadt.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, @exetercec.bsky.social. Ecophysiology of marine top predators (🦭, 🐋, 🐧). Pinnipedologist. He/Him #immigrantscientist #PinnipedFacts 🇨🇱➡️ 🇬🇧 https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/ecodap/
We saw brown bears! 🐻 A mom and two cubs 🥰 - this field course is setting the bar high for the future trips!
September 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Second day was dedicated to learning about ecological succession in the boreal forest, the effect of wild fires and the challenges that #ClimateChange poses to this fragile and important ecosystem - the moss beds were literally like walking on clouds @uniexecec.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
A good start to our field course! A red fox 🦊 is hanging out just outside the MacBride museum in Whitehorse, where we are meeting students for the first time before heading out to Kluane Lake Research Station @uniexecec.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Heading to the Yukon to teach our @uniexecec.bsky.social field course! Flying over Greenland never gets old but it’s also a clear reminder of how fast our planet is warming up #climatechange 🌎
September 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Back to the basics… teaching biological oceanography feels like coming back home @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social #NewAcademicYear #MarineEcology
August 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
May 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people come to your office and they end up petting your yellow labrador 🤷‍♂️
May 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
How can you not love this face? 😍🥰
May 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Trying to work from home like…
April 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
And I thought it was ok that I turned the heating off… 🥶
April 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Who would have thought that our first cohort of grey seal pups would be so well-travelled? England, France and Ireland! 🦭
April 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Last batch of tags going out on grey seal pups 🦭 soon! These little guys are going to places!
March 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Happy Monday! This is a good time to remind you that grey seal pups display high individual variability in their movement patterns during their first year at sea - Look where these guys have been. The things they must have seen! #PinnipedFacts 🦭
March 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Message from Leymah’s dog walker🥰.
Is this what it feels like when a parent gets a report from their child with good marks?
#ProudDad
March 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Someone is an attention seeker… 😍
March 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Before: when she figured out that her bath time was here and she was “hiding”
After: a clean gurl about to get the post-bath zoomies 🤣
February 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
What is this I'm hearing? You want to see more 🦭 tracking data? Say no more! Here are the tracks from grey seal pups we have been tagging in Cornwall, England. Look at the little guys go!
February 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Get yourself a study species as faithful as elephant seals 🦭. These are the tracks from the same individual last year (green) and her track so far this year (blue) #AnilloSEALS #Strategy #Fidelity
February 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The elephant seals from #AnillosSEALS keep moving and dispersing. Looks like Mike Jordan is going to be the first one to make it to the open ocean! 🦭🦑🌍 #PinnipedFacts
February 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
And the seals are on the move! Our elephant seals tagged as part of our project #AnilloSEALS are starting their 8-months post-moult foraging trip. Any guesses on where they’ll go? 🦭🦑🧪🌍
February 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It’s 3 am and I’m at the airport waiting for my first flight from Punta Arenas to Santiago as I head home after a great field season tagging 13 elephant seals #AnillosSEALS - and they are off! 🦭✈️ (and so am I)
January 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM
And that’s a wrap! We successfully deployed 13 CTD tags on elephant seals 🦭 in Tierra del Fuego! #AnillosSEALS
January 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Whilst we have had a great field season and have deployed 11 tags in two days on elephant seals 🦭, we can’t ignore the unthinkable amount of plastic in this, one of the most isolated areas of the world.
January 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We might not have been able to get some seals yet but we are happy to have these guys as neighbours
January 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
We’ve stuck in the campground for two days now due to pretty strong winds. So, we went for a short sightseeing ride
January 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM