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Hi, I'm Fiona (aka Visualizing Science), visual #scicomm whiz ✨ I provide range of services from layout design to infographics to illustration. Making info accessible and understandable. #sciart #illustration #infographics #dataviz #layout #graphicdesign #creative #editor

21/09/20 08:24

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Day #8: The spotlight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) is a reef recycling machine, scraping algae and dead coral with its fused #teeth. It eliminates the coral as fine sand. #inktober #sciartober #sciart #scicomm #mechanical #marinebiology #coralreef #parrotfish #ichthyology #sand

20/10/09 13:27

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For Day 7's prompts, #Fancy and #Invertebrate, here's a floating nudibranch called blue glaucus (Glaucus atlanticus). It hunts man-o-wars, retaining stinging nematocysts for its own defense 😳#inktober #sciartober #sciart #scicomm #penandink #watercolor #marinebiology #nudibranch

20/10/08 16:46

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#6: The thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) is commonly seen in US prairies. This #Rodent's #Adaptation is 6 months of hibernation, where it reduces respiration to 1 breath per ~5 minutes. Talk about extreme napping! #inktober #sciartober #sciart #scicomm

20/10/07 07:03

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#5: For today's prompts, #Blade and #Armored, here's a striped shore crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes). I illustrated this guy during an internship w/Channel Islands NPS. #inktober #sciartober #sciart #scicomm #marinebiology #crustacean #crab #intertidal #tidepools #penandink

20/10/06 09:25

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#4: An increase in water temp can signal coral to lose their colorful #symbiotic algae, rendering them stark white. (Away from my studio, I used a water soluble pen, an eyeliner brush, and a couple of my daughter’s crayons). #inktober #sciartober #sciart #scicomm #Radio #Cellular

20/10/05 15:48

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For Day #3's prompts, #Bulky and #Physics, here's a brain coral (coincidentally, a brain twister to draw). Boulder shapes are more resistant to storm damage than the branching varieties. #inktober #sciartober #sciart #scicomm #Caribbean #penandink #marinebiology #coralreef #coral

20/10/04 16:50

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#2: A coral is a #Colony of many individual polyps (often hidden during day). These #Gorgonian polyps each have eight tentacles lined with #Wisp -like pinnules. #inktober #sciartober #sciart #scicomm #Caribbean #usvirginislands #polyp #coral #penandink #marinebiology #coralreef

20/10/04 16:25

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Day #1: Combining two prompts #Fish and #Emerge, my first thought was to draw a moray eel—more specifically, this spotted moray (Gymnothorax moringa). What a challenging pattern! 😅 #inktober #sciartober #sciart #scicomm #morayeel #penandink #coralreef #marinebiology #USVI

20/10/02 12:43