Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊

@drkelpy.bsky.social

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Salish Sea Institute Fellow | ocean prof (lit, history, ecology) | Pacific + polar | feminist dive guide | nudi nerd | Seattle/Coast Salish Land | pubs/syllabi: kellypbushnell.com 📚 Current research: Cultural history of basking sharks in the NE Pacific!

Me talking in front of a lecture hall with a black and white image of a basking shark protected onto the screen. I’m wearing a plaid flannel and looking very northwesty.
Video shot on SCUBA.
“WHO THE F--K IS TOM BRADY?” —Ichiro
American flag amid marchers.
Multiple Pacific Spiny Lumpuckers swim over a Brittle Star looking like golf balls with fins.
Tall blonde female teaching in front of classroom wearing a plaid flannel shirt because she thinks it strikes the right tone between scholarly and outdoorsy.
A very large octopus in her den with her eggs hanging from the ceiling.
Bright blue, generically whale-shaped menorah with three candles lit.
Kelly B. hugs Kelly F. while the latter takes a photo in the mirror of a women’s bathroom somewhere in Norway.
Us in Tromsø November 2019: A blond woman (me) and a woman with black hair (Kelly Fraser) looking at the camera with big smiles.
A cookie cutter shark reimagined for Christmas with its mouth in three different festive shapes: candy cane, tree, and gingerbread man! It’s shown biting a concerned-looking great white.
The poem “A Journey” by Nikki Giovanni, who died yesterday.
Boxy light orange grunt sculpin underwater in front of soft red strawberry anemones.
Octopus shoots away into the eelgrass!
Mottled red and white octopus in eel grass.
Translucent sea slug on a blade of eelgrass.
Dive instructor Kelleen Lum looks at a huge well-camouflaged frogfish.
Expansive exhibit floor at pacific Marine Expo.