Better Learning Through Botany explores the use of visual science communication to increase public participation in conserving one of Oregon’s most diverse and threatened ecosystems. Utilizing scientific illustration and translating complicated botanical terminology, this project aims to remove common communication roadblocks that have caused a disconnect between these dynamic habitats and the people living around them.
From 2015 to 2017, Emily-Bell Dinan worked to complete over 60 hand-drawn pen and ink drawings depicting the many plant families and individual species found in Eugene, Oregon’s endangered wetland prairies.
