CREEK LANDS CONSERVATION
Commissioned by Creek Lands Conservation in Arroyo Grande, these three illustrations depict the same reach of a Central Californian freshwater stream with varying water usage/management conditions and the subsequent impacts on groundwater, surface water, and the surrounding riparian habitat.
MAD AGRICULTURE JOURNAL
Mad Agriculture magazine commissioned these three illustrations for Emily Rose Haga’s article, “For the Love of Plants!”, published in Mad Ag’s December Journal.
ECOS X THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
In collaboration with Emerging Creatives of Science (ECOS), I created these illustrations for The Nature Conservancy’s social media campaigns surrounding World Migratory Fish Day and the 2024 update to the Living Planet Index: Migratory Freshwater Fishes.
SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN
Interpretive panels with these illustrations will soon be installed along Santa Fe Botanical Garden’s Piñon Juniper Woodland trail.
The Little Black Mustang
Written by Ashley Ahearn
Art by Catie Michel
The newly self-published story of a young wild horse who develops a special bond with a little girl. To purchase a copy, visit thelittleblackmustang.com
ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS
These panels can be found on the islands of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean.
CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS INTERPRETIVE PANELS
These panels can be found in Montaña de Oro State Park, CA.
These panels can be found along the San Simeon Creek Trail in San Simeon State Park, CA.
WOMEN’S WORK
Design for NPR’s Women’s Work, a series of audio portraits of women ranchers across the West produced by Ashley Ahearn.
MUSTANG
Design for NPR’s Mustang, a series exploring the complex issues surrounding mustangs, produced by Ashley Ahearn.
STEELHEAD (Oncorhynchus mykiss) LIFE CYCLE
Samples from an exhibit on display at the Morro Bay National Estuary Program’s Nature Center in Morro Bay, CA.
FIELD NOTES: NAUTILUS LIVE + OCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST
“How do artists observe and document the world around them? Follow along with our expeditions in a new way and join artist Catie Michel as she explains how she sketches field notes while watching Nautilus Live. Good note taking skills help explorers remember what they see and develop future observation of the world. Asking questions and documenting observations are key parts of research, science, and art, and this 7-minute overview featuring our encounter with the magnificent gulper eel can jumpstart your own curiosity and creativity.”
FIELD NOTES: BOTANICAL STUDIES
FIELD NOTES: BAHÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES, BAJA CALIFORNIA
Collected while serving as a marine biology teaching assistant for Cuesta College students at Estación del Mar Cortés.
GREATER FARALLONES NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY
Illustrations of local habitats for the Sanctuary Naturalist Course.
Tidepool Habitat
of the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Black oystercatcher and Western gulls tower over a bustling tidepool brimming with marine algae, invertebrates, and fish. A giant Pacific octopus slinks through feather boa kelp near a monkeyface prickleback, Heliaster spp., sunburst anemone, tidepool sculpin, acorn and gooseneck barnacles, California mussels, ochre sea stars, kelp crab, abalone, crystalline algae, and opalescent nudibranch.
11X17 in. 005 0.20mm Sakura black micron on vellum bristol
Sandy Beach Habitat
of the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Long billed curlew, sanderlings, snowy plovers, and western gulls prey on the many burrowing invertebrates that find shelter in the sand from ceaseless wave action or amongst the dried kelp and other deposited items in the wrack line. Shallow water fishes come to join the party too, like surf perch, bat ray, and leopard shark.
11X17 in. 005 0.20mm Sakura black micron on vellum bristol