Hunter Stevens

A week up in the Canadian Arctic supporting the Inuit community of Tasiujaq with some science :)

10.08.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some of the ctenophore species reported for Atlantic Canada. (A–C) = Beroe cucumis (B = B. cucumis has ingested a Pleurobrachia pileus specimen), (D and E) = Bolinopsis infundibulum, (F and G) = Mertensia ovum, (H) = Dryodora glandiformis, (I) = Euplokamis dunlapae, (J and K) = P. pileus. No size measurements were taken during the dives. All photos were taken by HS.

#Ctenophores—aka comb jellies—are more than ocean oddities. They shape food webs and might shift with the climate. This new paper takes stock of what we know (and don’t) in Atlantic Canada.

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📸 cjz-2024-0171_fig-2

23.07.2025 21:48 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve just returned from a month in Australia… highlights included “door-knocking” for funnel web spiders, gliding with greynurse sharks, staring down an army of soldier crabs, and a sweet encounter with a death adder. I’m sorry to my friends that follow me here, I don’t post often enough!!

14.05.2025 12:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So sorry for the late reply, but these are whelk eggs!! Probably Buccinum undatum. BIG clutch of them!

14.05.2025 12:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We do it differently on the east coast of CANADA. Polar water temps of 3° Celsius means polar species like sea angels (Clione limacina) come out and play! Yes, that’s the famous Peggy’s Cove lighthouse in the back!

11.01.2025 21:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Another awesome Saturday spent outside in Canada’s Ocean Playground — a quick rip up to the Bay of Fundy in the AM, followed after lunch by the first freediving session of 2025 in St. Margaret’s Bay!

04.01.2025 23:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Send a THANK YOU letter to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans The federal government has just declared the St. Mary’s River to be a candidate “Ecologically Significant Area” under the Fisheries Act. This is good news for the river and local communities working t...

Good news for the St. Mary’s river, which has been selected as a candidate for a brand new kind of protected area called an Ecologically Significant Area, or ESA. Please spare a few clicks and help us tell the government “thank you” for protecting this special place: action.cpaws.org/page/162590/...

11.12.2024 15:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Giant clam getting excavated out of the chalk. Curator for scale

The Burke Museum's Kelsie Abrams showing off all the hard work involved in stabilizing and cleaning the fossil clam in order to display it

The Burke Big Bivalve project is complete!
I excavated this clam with our crew back in 2014 and our founder, Mike Triebold, donated it the the Burke museum this spring.

Kelsie did an awesome job on this Platyceramus platinus from the Niobrara, measuring in around 4 feet in diameter. Go see it! 🧪 🦪

05.12.2024 23:23 — 👍 230    🔁 56    💬 12    📌 8

If you can brave the cold temperatures this time of year, you’ll be rewarded with some of the most beautiful vistas anywhere in Canada. The Sambro Ledges just outside Halifax, NS, host remarkable ecological communities and rare species!

03.12.2024 14:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m Hunter. I’m a biologist who snorkels to help establish protected areas. I think its fitting that my first post here be of the animal that got me here — Atlantic salmon. I don’t think people realize how captivating their colours can be.
Also looking for old friends and followers from twitter :)

29.11.2024 14:19 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1