Forebodings of the next extinction-level events (#ELE's)
"South-east #Australia#Marine Heatwave forecast to be literally off the scale
Patch of #Tasman sea expected to warm over spring and summer to temperatures that risk significant losses to sea life" 1)
“We didn’t account for anomalies that high when we developed this ... it could be 3C, it could be 3.5C, but we can’t see how high it goes,” said Oceanographer Grant Smith.
"...we’d expect to see impacts on remaining #KelpForest in the region,” he said, noting that 👉 #Tasmania’s giant kelp species had already lost 95% 👈 of its historical range."
Due to #OceanWarming, which I covered here 2), we might never get to know the 91% of #MarineLife that is still unclassified. 3)
I'm an artist and writer in Seattle, with a love of nature and of making art with traditional tools. I have a certificate in Natural Science Illustration from the University of Washington, and paint native flora and fauna of the Pacific Northwest onto oyster shells; the shells are sold in the shop at the Seattle Art Museum. For my writing, I'm represented by The Tobias Literary Agency.
I've been working for years to improve my artistic skills enough to illustrate a comic mystery I wrote for the 8-12 yr old audience. The more I learn, the more I understand that I still need to learn. Which makes me joyful: I'll never run out of things to discover and ways to improve.
I love seeing what other artists and creators are doing, and hearing about their struggles and successes. I also love historical artifacts, gardens (of the landscaped variety, not vegetable), psychology, and all things wild and natural.