Nice to meet you!

My name is Jessica. I am a scientist, artist, and communicator here to share my awe of plants and the natural world - and our interactions with them.

As a teenager, I often found myself torn between my curiosity for science and my love of the creative arts. Concurrent undergraduate studies in Plant Science and Philosophy enabled me to indulge these interests and discover points of intersection between them.

The incredible intricacy of natural systems - particularly the diversity of plant morphology - indelibly invoked my curiosity to understand, at the scientific level, how things come to be. I gained an aesthetic appreciation for the patterns and structures that arise from these phenomena, and the way that creative representation through art can be used to communicate about nature and our engagement with it.

Science

Thus far in my scientific career I have had the fantastic opportunities to work within herbaria, describe fungal diversity, and study plant morphology through plant developmental genetics research.
I recently completed my BSc (Honours) research, a one-year focus on mechanisms driving growth and development in an early-diverging land plant called Marchantia polymorpha.

These experiences have made me passionate about cryptogam diversity broadly (fungi, bryophytes, etc) and the philosophy of science; the human aspect of biological discovery and knowledge. I look forward to beginning PhD studies in the future, and continuing to use my art to communicate.

Admiring a Stylidium graminifolium 'trigger plant' flower

Communication

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