Category: Science-Art

  • Voices of the Sea Ice

    Voices of the Sea Ice

    Voices of the Sea Ice: engaging an Arctic community to communicate impacts of climate change David Lipson, Kim Reasor, Kååre Sikuaq Erickson The predominantly Inupiat people of Utqiaġvik, Alaska are among those who will be most impacted by climate change and the loss of Arctic sea ice in the near future. Subsistence hunting of marine…

  • Art and Science of Snow Microbiology

    Art and Science of Snow Microbiology

    Our Art-science residency in the Finnish Arctic culminated in a poster at the 2017 AGU meeting in New Orleans and two exhibitions in San Diego in 2018. Our AGU Poster describes a snow microbiology research project and how the data were translated into oil paintings by Kim Reasor, shown below (click on her name to see…

  • Microbial Knot

    Microbial Knot

    This project was a collaboration with local artist and high school teacher, Jason Rogalski. This was part of the Urban Succession project, funded in part by a DNA of Creativity grant, and was exhibited at the Oceanside Museum of Art (though they made us take out all the foul-smelling muck and just display the empty…

  • Soil Blind

    Soil Blind

    As part of Urban Succession, a project coordinated by Jason Rogalski and supported by a DNA of Creativity grant, I collaborated with ceramic artists, Jeremy Gercke and Jonathan Austin. (See news article on SDSU web page). This work was featured in an exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art in April 2014. We went to…