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The 1990s were my
bird era. Specifically, I have a thing for avian skeletal anatomy,
though I've done my share
of ornithological fieldwork and Chirstmas bird counts Back East (as
they call it out here in California).
There are
actually some really interesting connections between birds and spiders.
For example, many species of birds feed spiders to their nestlings and
may preferentially feed spiders during the first few days of life (this
is a bit of lore 'known' in the bird world for which I haven't yet
found
any really good references). And hundreds of bird species (including
almost all
hummingbirds) rely on spider web to build their nests. |
Removing
a Black-capped Chickadee
from a mist net. 1996.
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I have spent most of
the last few years working as a Content Developer/ Writer for the
museum industry. I worked at Academy
Studios, LLC, a Marin County corporation that designs and builds
educational
exhibits for science, history and natural history museums around the
world.
During my time with Academy Studios I worked with museums as far away
as the National Museum of Ethiopia (in conjunction with the
Arizona-based Institute of Human Origins) and as close as the San
Francisco Maritime National Historical Park on Fisherman's Wharf,
pictured to the right. |
Exhibit at a Maritime
Museum in
San Francisco. 2003.
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In the Spring and
summer of 2002, I
worked as a field assistant in Panama, recording behavioral
observations of the courtship displays of the Lance-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia lanceolata) for
UCB grad student, Emily DuVal.
This is the rancho we called home during the four month field season. I
just can't say enough good things about thatch.
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Rancho on Isla Boca
Brava. 2002.
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My undergraduate
thesis was entitled "Comparative Morphology of Non-oscine Passerine
Humeri."
The illustration to the right is the anconal surface of the proximal
end of the left humerus of a Lyre Bird (Menura novaehollandiae). There were
about ninety such squiggles in my thesis the main gist of which can be
gleaned from its introduction, available right
here on this very website.
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Menura
novaehollandiae
humerus. 1997.
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Of
course, there's more to life than bird bones. There are also human
bones! This is part of a series of illustrations I made for Tee-Bones,
a company that developed tee-shirt designs for the recently injured.
Go see the wiggly
spider again...
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Reference photo and
illustration of a human
knee showing oft injured ligaments and meniscus. 1995.
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