Elena @ ELabArts

I created this little earthquake explainer for Scientific American (@SciAm@flipboard.com )
I loved making cross sections in this art style

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Fission and Fusion are both nuclear reactions that release energy but they aren't the same. One happens in the sun and one usually happens on Earth in nuclear power plants.

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Common eye traits among prey and predator animals. I made this graphic for a Newsela article.

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A graphic showing an atmospheric river. Illustration made for @newsela

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I really liked drawing these neurons in this fun cartoon style!

Created for Newsela

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I created these carbon macromolecules for Scientific American several years ago (and am just getting around to posting now 🤣 )

The fullerenes (the buckyballs, C70 and C60) were extremely fun to map out and render.

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I created this figure for Dr. Jilling at the University of South Carolina to show how mineral associated organic matter (MAOM) can sequester carbon and nutrients in soil. Had a great time working on this figure with Dr. Jilling and learned so many cool things!

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I'm always excited to work on thumbnails for New Nature's videos since they always involve cutting some earth in half.

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Graphite and diamonds are made of the same element, carbon, just arranged differently.

Illustration made for Newsela.

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I created this cross section for the Fiber Lab at UW!

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It's difficult to picture how big some animals in the ocean are. Especially fish! This is a graphic showing the size of the largest sunfish ever found.

Created this for Newsela

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At the start of the pandemic, Newsela published articles relating to social distancing and health. I created this graphic to show that cloth masks, while not as effective as N95s, still offered protection against contaminated aerosols.

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I absolutely loved working on the figure on microbial dormancy for researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory.

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I worked on this figure with Dr. Bowles at the University of Berkeley, California, who is always fantastic to work with. I had a lot of fun illustration directly on top of these graphs.

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@agatesfrommexico I did not know that! Would love to illustrate that one day!

Was so thrilled to receive a copy of Bay Nature Spring 2026 issue and see my illustration in it. I created a close up of the Dodder plant and pickleweed interaction for the article "Sensing is Becoming" by Jules Litman-Cleper

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@agatesfrommexico I often find earthquakes somewhat difficult to illustrate clearly (since they are so intuitive to me so it's hard for me to think from the perspective of someone who knows little about them) - especially showing the differences in the waves that result and why each type of wave is important to understand.

The @soilbiome lab has always been a joy to work with over the years!

I have been slow to post some of the projects I've worked on with them because I am allergic to social media 🤣 but late is better than never!

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