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Varoon Supratya
@varoon-supratya.bsky.social
PhD candidate studying bull kelp ecophysiology at the University of British Columbia
For #phycologyfriday: The unusual fishhooks of Bonnemaisonia californica
#rhodophyta #algae #seaweed #intertidal #marinelife #redalgae #marinebiology #science
July 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Today for #phycologyfriday: two commonly confused PNW kelps next to each other, from the same site (Whiffin Spit, BC). Left is Saccharina latissima, right Hedophyllum nigripes.
#marinelife #intertidal #pnw #biology #marinebiology #science #kelp #seaweed
July 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today for #phycologyfriday: Soranthera ulvoidea, a saccate brown alga that grows only on some species of red algae (in this case Odonthalia floccosa)
#marinelife #tidepools #algae #seaweed
June 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Lab grown stipeless bull kelp to reduce tangling in tumble culture. Removal of the stipe before the internal cavity inflates results in the cut sealing over to form a "knot" instead of the usual pneumatocyst + stipe
#phycologyfriday #kelp #marinebiology #science #algae #seaweed
June 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A gumboot chiton in a medley of seaweeds #phycologyfriday #intertidal #tidepool #marinelife
May 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Honoured to have been able to make speaker gifts for the 2025 international seaweed symposium! #phycologyfriday #iss25 #pottery #ceramics #kelp
May 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A very unexpected find: Laminaria ephemera at Stanley Park in a seaweed diversity survey quadrat! I'll be presenting on this project (and others) at #ISS25 - see comments for details.
#phycologyfriday
May 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Blink and you miss it: the spring bloom of Laminaria ephemera, one of the shortest-lived and smallest kelps

#phycologyfriday #intertidal #marinelife #kelp #science
April 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
One of the few kelp species that can spread clonally through a rhizomatous holdfast
April 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
A rarity in Canadian waters: Laminaria sinclairii at French Beach, BC.

#laminaria #phycologyfriday #kelp #seaweed #intertidal #marinelife #science #marinebiology #algae
April 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Today for #phycologyfriday: a couple of tiny bull kelp sprouting from the shell of a dogwinkle

#bullkelp #nereocystis #kelp #phycology #seaweed #algae #marinelife #intertidal #marinebiology #science #tidepool
March 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Today for #phycologyfriday: the gorgeous Erythrophyllum delesserioides, found along exposed, wave-swept coasts of the PNW

#redalgae #erythrophyllum #phycology #marinelife #intertidal #marinebiology #seaweed #algae #science #botany
March 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Antithamnionella spirographidis under a microscope. Collected at Stanley Park during a long term macroalgal survey by @siobhanschenk.bsky.social and I that was recently accepted as a paper cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#phycologyfriday #marinelife #intertidal #seaweed #marineecology #science
March 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Today for #phycologyfriday: a rather unusual bull kelp that popped up in a lab tumble culture

#bullkelp #nereocystis #kelp #seaweed #phycology #marinelife #intertidal #marinebiology #science #biology
February 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A new in progress #pottery project for #phycologyfriday: #Alaria marginata carved on a bowl

#kelp #seaweed #marineart #phycology #sculpture #carving #ceramics #clay
February 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Lab grown bull kelp sporophytes with tiny rhizoids and the barest hint of a stipe for #phycologyfriday

#bullkelp #marinebiology #phycology #kelp #seaweed #algae #science #biology #marine #ocean
February 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My creative outlet is pottery, often inspired by seaweeds

#phycologyfriday #phycology #kelp #marinebiology #science #art #pottery #sculpture #seaweed #ceramics
January 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Today for #phycologyfriday: intertidal bull kelp with extremely short stipes. Spotted at Ogden Point, Victoria BC

#nereocystis #bullkelp #phycology #kelp #seaweed #algae #marinebiology #intertidal #science #victoriaBC #britishcolumbia #fieldwork
January 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Today for #phycologyfriday: Dictyoneurum californicum at Sombrio Beach on Vancouver Island. This is a rare and patchily distributed species in Canada, being mostly found in California #dictyoneurum #phycology #marinebiology #seaweed #algae #botany #kelp #science #intertidal #ocean
January 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
An intertidal bed of the kelp Eisenia arborea near Big Beach, Ucluelet. This species has a stronghold in California and scattered populations in British Columbia. It is interesting to speculate how this has arisen. #phycologyfriday #eisenia #eiseniaarborea #kelp #phycology #seaweed #marinebiology
January 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Today for #phycologyfriday: the southern bull "kelp" Durvillaea antarctica, spotted west of Auckland, NZ

#durvillaea #durvillaeaantarctica #phycology
December 20, 2024 at 11:03 AM
All the bull kelp in these artsy presses were entirely lab-grown grown in closed-system recirculating culture doi.org/10.1111/jpy....
#phycologyfriday #phycology #nereocystis #nereocystisluetkeana #bullkelp #aquaculture #mariculture
December 6, 2024 at 4:51 PM