These 10 scientists carry their curiosity outside their nine-to-fives.
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Jill Pelto: Glacier Monitoring as a Lifelong Muse
Jill Pelto turned her childhood fascination with glaciers into a busy life creating data-art.
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Maoya Bassiouni: Curiouser and Curiouser
Growing up, this art lover had no idea she would someday become a scientist. Today, her curiosity is helping explore the intersection of atmospheric data and immersive art.
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Danielle Ignace: Bringing One’s Whole Self to Science and Beyond
As a scientist, mentor, artist, advocate, and more, Ignace wears many hats. The key to balancing it all is to integrate the varied aspects of her life.
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Chet Udell: A Passion for Instrumentation Creates a New Path
A love for experimental music helped Chet Udell forge a unique career developing new musical and scientific instruments.
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Artists and Scientists Partner to Bring Atmospheric Data to Life
In the fluxART project, scientists using eddy covariance to study atmospheric flux partnered with artists to help communicate the “breath of the biosphere.”
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Landslides in Art Part 36: The Great Landslide of 1664 of Runswick Bay on The day Village That Slipped into the Sea by “Jotter”
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. I’ve not posted about Landslides in Art much in recent years – the most recent edition was almost two years ago – but loyal readers will know that this is a long […]
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An Art-Science Partnership Offering New Views of Dynamic Landscapes
The immersive and interactive WILDLAND exhibition allowed the public—and the exhibition’s creators—to explore connections among water, trees, fire, and other natural and human-made materials expressed across a spectrum of artistic approaches.
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Sculpture by Singer-Songwriter Jewel Incorporates Near Real-Time NASA Ocean Data
The soundscape changes in accordance with near real-time Atlantic Ocean conditions, as the data updates every 12 minutes. “If it’s raining, the piece looks and sounds different. If it’s stormy, the piece is different. It’s a living instrument that the ocean gets to play in real time,” Jewel said.
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Sunspot Drawings Illuminate 400 Years of Solar Activity
A new computational framework is helping scientists sift through centuries of scientific illustration of the Sun’s spotty surface.