Day 3 of #artAdventCalendar: another new portrait - geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. A supporter of women in science, she established the Society of Japanese Women Scientists & the Saruhashi Prize for 🧵

#printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #climateChange #oceanography #linocut #mastoArt

Day 3 of #artAdventCalendar: another new portrait - geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. A supporter of women in science, she established the Society of Japanese Women Scientists & the Saruhashi Prize for 🧵

#printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #climateChange #oceanography #linocut #mastoArt

#plants #botany #seaweed #oceanography

'The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection. '

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/ellen-browning-scripps-herbarium-collection-highlights-the-intersection-between-art-and-science

#plants #botany #seaweed #oceanography

'The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection. '

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/ellen-browning-scripps-herbarium-collection-highlights-the-intersection-between-art-and-science

If people want a bit more info on the voyage that I'm posting pix from its here (the regular narrative updates are listed down the bottom) #Oceanography #TAN2502 - I expect the narrative will slowly build unless things get too busy. I've started doing this over the last few voyages and expeditions as it is useful for us and a wider subset of people seem to enjoy the looser writing style.

https://niwa.co.nz/vessels/voyages/ross-sea-voyage-2025