About Me
I’m a visual storyteller specializing in science communication. I’m interested sharing science in ways that are exciting, accessible, and allow people to see rich new details in the familiar.

​For the last 5 years I've been working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) as a photographer and multimedia specialist. I work with scientists to communicate their research about climate and earth systems, accompanying them into the field and producing StoryMaps, illustrations, and talks. 
Before that I traveled the Amazon River from source to delta on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, using photography to tell the story of river science. 
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Right now, I'm taking a year to sail around the Pacific aboard my sailboat, Tardigrade. Check out my recent work on instagram or my blog, and sign up for my newsletter to stay up to date.

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Recent talks

How Water Shaped the West
My talk at AGU Ignite

This NASA-sponsored SciComm event at the American Geophysical Union conference is designed to keep scientists on their toes with slides that advance every 15 seconds. I presented on seeing the West through watersheds to a full house of several hundred people at the Great American Music Hall in SF.

My Artist Talk with Peak Design
At the SF flagship store

I gave this talk to accompany a gallery show of my photos at the Peak Design flagship store in San Francisco. This recording captures the first half of the talk, about how rivers and watersheds shaped the natural landscapes of the American West.​​

See the images featured in these shows:

Recent Illustrations

Illustrated Cover Art for Nature Climate Change
I developed this illustrated cover art for the March 2024 issue of Nature Climate Change.
My colleagues at Berkeley Lab were invited to submit cover art for their paper showing that arctic wetlands have been emitting more methane as the summer makes growing seasons longer.

With no suitable photos, I developed this retro-modern illustration to capture a sense of languid late summer warmth, while positioning the viewer deep in the overgrown vegetation to give a sense of teeming growth. I also included the two main scientific instruments used to collect these data: gas flux chambers and eddy covariance towers.

Recent Storymaps

Visual Storytelling Work

Power and Promise Beneath the Salton Sea
An educational deep-dive into the exciting possibility of sustainably harvesting lithium from the brine used to generate geothermal electricity.
Field Days: Tracking Weather and Water in the Rockies
A brief look at a day in the life of scientists studying the weather and snowpack that feeds the Colorado River.

My Watershed StoryMap (and covers of Nature and Science)
My first project with the Watershed Function Science Focus Area at Berkeley Lab told the stories of Natural, Impacted, and Managed water in the Rockies and the American West. 
My photography from this project was also selected for the April 2021 cover of Nature Geoscience and March 2022 cover of Science Advances.

The Watson
I spent much of 2019-2020 on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, traveling the length of the Amazon River and using photography to showcase the science of river systems. 
This project was put on hold for the pandemic, with the exception of a foray along the Colorado River in October 2021. 

My newsletter
In 2022 I sent out my first monthly newsletter with a new StoryMap I made about the wonders of beavers.
Every few months since then, I've shared out photo essays, life updates, and my favorite photos that don't make it on social media. Check out my blog and sign up for my newsletter to stay in the loop about future projects.
Photos on this website are the property of Jeremy Snyder and cannot be reproduced or reused without permission.

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