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Memories of a Marine Biologist

Looking throughout old sketchbooks of rockfish and found these from my NOAA/NMFS days as a Research Fisheries Biologist. Fun, fun, fun…. contemplating Quillback Stock Assessment. oh the memories of analyzing all the West Coast spatially enabled trawl data for groundfishes, making conclusions about Rockfish Conservation Areas and other such mer-things.

IMG_4156Quillback Stock Assessment

RockfishFlag Rockfish

Watercolor of Sebastes rubrivinctus
Watercolor of Sebastes rubrivinctus

 

U is for Urchin

sea urchins in pen makeyev

tropical pacific sea urchin makeyev

Pyllacanthus imperialis – Imperial Pencil Urchin

Diadema spp. – Long Spined Urchin

Echinometra mathaei – Matha’s Sea Urchin

 Mesplia globula – Jewel Case Sea Urchin

Tagalog/Tagbanua: Tayong

There is a lovely variety of colorful  sea urchins with all lengths and sizes of spines in the Coral Triangle. The Imperial Pencil Urchin is a dramatic orange maroon, Diadema is a dramatic black with electric blue highlights, Matha’s Sea Urchin has brown white tipped spines like a hedgehog and the Jewel case urchin has a vibrant royal blue that shines within the sea grass beds.

(this is a pencil sketch pre watercolor)