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Neil Banas

is an oceanographer, mathematical ecologist, and artist in Glasgow.

  • Plankton biology
  • The changing Arctic
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origami

origamiplankton.org!

origamiplankton.org for copepod diagrams, exhibition photos, and really big krill.

Tags animals, models, origami, zooplankton

fished out of the recycling

Recyclers made of recycling: lockdown experiments, 2020-21. The anemone is an original design; the isopod/pillbug/wood louse/chuggy pig is based on a design by Do Anh Tu.

Tags anemones, isopods, origami, recycling

Salar (2021)

I designed a salmon head in origami for Salar, an environmental theatre piece by The Hatch ensemble in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Tags canada, origami, puppet, salmon

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animals anthropocene art behaviour biogeochemistry britain buddhism china circulation climate coasts community ecology computational connectivity copepods dispersion diversity ecocriticism estuaries evolution first nations haida gwaii harmful algae hypoxia ice interactive models npz origami pacific papers physics phytoplankton pnw population ecology portraits predictability religion salmon scotland syllabi teaching transport uzbekistan zooplankton
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