Junior Bat Biologist

Allow me to present Junior Bat Biologist, an all-ages educational activity book, which I had the special honor of contributing to over at that place I work, Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Many park rangers put a whole lot of work and love into this book, with culminating efforts happening in 2018 and 2019. My heartfelt thanks goes to Toni Gould Nelson for roping me into this project. It’s a thrill when we get to make the office into an art studio. We’ll receive our first stack of print copies in August, and you can download the PDF here: https://www.nps.gov/cave/learn/kidsyouth/upload/Junior-Bat-Biologist-reduced-file-size.pdf. Learn the way of the bat!

NPS illustration by yours truly, public domain

Journey Into Rock

A post I made for the Carlsbad Caverns National Park Facebook page:

“The ultimate aim of all science... to penetrate the unknown. We know less about our earth than about the stars and outer space. The greatest mystery is right here under our feet,” said the geologist-explorer Oliver Lindenbrook (James Mason) in the 1959 fantasy film Journey to the Center of the Earth, which was based on the 1864 novel by Jules Verne, and filmed in Carlsbad Cavern.

These words still ring true, as cavers continue to discover hitherto-unknown chambers and tunnels, in Carlsbad Caverns National Park and all over the world! 

NPS / Ross Studlar