I grew up in Honolulu, where I spent a lot of time in the ocean looking at sea cucumbers and other fun critters. Then I moved to Washington for my undergrad, where I spent a lot of time looking at critters but this time I also wrote down lots of numbers and did a bunch of math. With my Bachelors of Science in Biology I fell head over heels into academia and world of ecology research. I did zillions of titrations with lake water, I went to the arctic and measured hundreds of tiny leaves, I spied on fish with underwater cameras, cloned lots and lots of DNA, and even dissected dozens of dead maggots! I love to explore- and the scientific method is one way to do that. But another valuable way to explore the world is through art - which is something that I have been doing as long as I've been interested in science and critters, and always wanted to incorporate more into my career.