#watercolour

Baumpilz & Birke im Herbst - watercolour on paper

polypore & birch - it really is fall in Zürich now!

based on a photo by Malte Jäger  watercolour on paper 

Arrived safe & sound in Cambridge! America is crazy, but I think we are on good terms. The sheer amount of cookie choices in the supermarket is probably one of the more important reasons for that. 

a visit to lake zürich with a lovely person 

camping near Eckernförde, at the baltic sea 

interpretation of Lee Jeffries "homeless" - pencil on paper

Why y’all so negative?

scientific illustration (and its negative) of the common Red Snapper, Lutjanus compectamus

original done in watercolour

Did you know that selenium deficiency is a thing? 

Up to a billion people around the globe are deficient, not getting enough of this trace element from their diet. This is why we are interested in understanding what controls selenium levels in soils. The atmosphere supplies Se to the soil environment - but where does this initially come from? I loved illustrating this study by Süss et al., (2019), investigating trace element sources using rainwater analyses. The data show that the terrestrial biosphere apparently has much more of an impact than we traditionally thought - at least during the summer. 

source: Elke Suess, Franziska Aemisegger, Jeroen E. Sonke, Michael Sprenger, Heini Wernli and Lenny H. E. Winkel (2019): Marine versus continental sources of iodine and selenium in rainfall at two European high-altitude locations. Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b05533

plankton.

great weekend trip to Paris! :)