is an oceanographer, mathematical ecologist, and artist in Glasgow.
I made this video for a town hall event called “From the tide pool to the stars” at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting. It documents the generation of Droplet (2012) from an initial field of seeds. My hope is that it would make one think of things that are very large and things that are … Read more
Compared with most large, temperate estuaries, the biogeochemistry of Puget Sound is highly marine dominated: 70% of dissolved nutrients come from the Pacific. Nevertheless, there’s significant policy and management interest in understanding watershed contributions of environmental stressors, e.g. nutrient loading in relation to hypoxia, and pathogen and pollutant impacts on commercial, recreational, and tribal shellfish … Read more
The Blindfold Gallery (Seattle) showed a selection of work from the Pond and Rain series in spring 2012. Most pieces from the show are in this flickr gallery. My artist statement is below, and I expanded on some of it in this interview with SeattleArtBloc. Artist Statement I’m an oceanographer. I work with computer models … Read more
Gallery on flickr. This series consists of sketches in a couple of different families leading up to Droplet (2012). Many of these works were originally shown at the Blindfold Gallery in Seattle in 2012. I wrote a bit about them at the time, and explained a bit more in an interview with SeattleArtBloc. More recently, … Read more
Banas NS, MacDonald PS, Armstrong DA (2009) Green crab larval retention in Willapa Bay, Washington: An intensive Lagrangian modeling approach.
Dynamics of Willapa Bay, Washington, USA: Links to the coastal ocean, tidal dispersion, and oyster carrying capacity (PhD, Univ of Washington, 2005).