Visit Of The Big Bayan Tree Parc in The Gaotian Village Near Guilin. The Tree In This Parc Is Apparently

watercolour on paper

-watercolour and ink on paper

Hippos vs. Cows  This semester at uni I got to work on a topic completely new to me and so exciting - hippos! Who would have thought that hippos are actually quite the ecosystem engineers? The amount of organic matter these herbivores transport to rives and lakes is quite impressive, and the fact that their population is in danger is really not good news for the aquatic food chain and everybody who depends on it. The simultaneous explosion of cattle herds in Africa is another factor that complicates the matter - considering only the cows’ methane emissions really misses a large part of the picture! I think its so fascinating to see how the theoretical science you study as a student finally gets applied and produces meaningful data in the field - in this case people used C and N isotopic data to trace hippo/cow input into and along the food chain. 

Watercolour on paper - Patella Vulgata (the common limpet)

My best friend analyzed rare earth element patterns in a series of shells - including one from the common limpet - for her bachelor thesis, this is an illustration I made for her presentation :)

inspired by Ludovic Florent´s series "stardust"  - oil on paper

Pterois antennata 

watercolour illustration 

when it seems like everything is grey and dull - remember to let the colours in. The world is beautiful and so are you; happy holidays everyone! 

Apis Mallifera - La vie est trop courte pour qu´on soit pressé 

“Denk nicht daran, wieviel zu tun ist, welche Schwierigkeiten zu bewältigen sind oder welches Ziel erreicht werden soll, sondern widme dich gewissenhaft der kleinen Aufgabe die gerade ansteht, und lass das für heute genügen.” (Sir William Osler

Pseudocythus maculatus  original illustration in “Fishes of the southern ocean”