Illustration: Experimenting with an Eclipse

I developed this illustration to go with a news story that we produced about how scientists at Berkeley Lab used the Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024 to run a unique experiment spanning the U.S. on how removing the variable of solar radiation impacts gas fluxes and plant metabolisms. 

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This image required a cool synthesis of human and AI tools- I used Midjourney to compose the landscape, traced it into Adobe Illustrator, used Illustrator's generative vector tool to create the eclipse's corona, then integrated the hand-drawn tower into the image by grouping all the elements of the foreground. I then created a mask over the center of the image and used Illustrator's generative recolor tool to create a twilight palette to capture the effect of the eclipse!

Illustrated Cover Art for Nature Climate Change

I developed these two illustrations as cover art for an upcoming paper about methane emissions from tundra wetlands in Nature Climate Change

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These covers capture the eddy covariance towers and gas flux chambers used in the study, as well as the dense vegetation growth that drives gas cycling in arctic wetlands.

Illustrations, Logos, and Icons

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Flyers, backgrounds, and one-pagers

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Videos

I developed the idea for this explainer video, then wrote the script, storyboarded, and worked with an external studio to animate this video for the Molecular Foundry.

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Animated and Interactive Infographics

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