Nat Geo & New Zealand!

Left to right: Destry Maria Sibley, Isaí Madriz, Toby Cox, Lilly Sedaghat, And me. Photo by Randall Scott/National Geographic.

Off to New Zealand for nine months to sketch seabirds! I've been awarded a Fulbright-Nat Geo Storytelling Fellowship to write and illustrate stories about seabird conservation for National Geographic. Just finished a week at Nat Geo HQ in Washington, DC, where I presented my project and got trained. My four fellow Fellows are headed to Mexico, Chile, Kyrgyz Republic, and Taiwan.

Stay tuned for more info.

Maine maritiming

July 3rd, 80 degrees. Other than a deer, some birds, and a squirrel, I'm the only one at the "downtown" boat launch. Maine, folks.

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Pahoehoe

Bowdoin student @elliewanders finds the orientation of a pahoehoe lava flow (this ropy-looking rock, splotched with lichens and surrounded by moss) that we encountered in a lava field near Reykjavik, Iceland

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Scientific pic

I recently drew a "graphical abstract" for a scientific paper about all the stuff affecting birds that migrate across the Gulf of Mexico (for a quick summary of the paper, read this).

Across the river

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View across the Machias River (Machiasport, ME)