Visual documentation of conferences
Starting in 2017, I started sharing my conference notes on Twitter using my @ terngirl handle. I doodle as I listen to conference presentations anyway, so I thought, why not pretty them up a bit (hello colour!) and post them live as a way of letting others see presentations as I see them!
Dr Maggie Watson – Conference Cartoonist Extraordinaire
Australian Ornithological Conference 2023 conference, 28–30 November, 2023, Brisbane/Meeanjin, QLD, #AOC2023
Ecological Society of Australia 2023 Conference, 3–7 July, 2023, Darwin, NT, #ESAus23
Ecological Society of Australia 2022 conference, 28 November–02 December, Wollongong, NSW, #ESASCBO2022
Australian Society for Fish Biology 2022 conference, 6–10 November, Surfers Paradise, QLD, #ASFB2022
Ecological Society of Australia 2019 conference, 24–29 November, Launceston, TAS, #ESAus19
Australian Society for Fish Biology 2019 conference, 14–17 October, Canberra, ACT, #ASFB2019
Ecological Society of Australia 2018 conference, 25–29 November, Brisbane, QLD, #ESAus18
Australian Society for Fish Biology 2018 conference, 7–11 October, Melbourne, VIC, #ASFB2018
22nd International Symposium on Freshwater Crayfish, 9–13 July 2018, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, #IAA22
Ecological Society of Australia Ecological Society and the New Zealand Ecological Society 2017 conference, 25November–01 December, Hunter Valley, NSW, #EcoTAS17
Australian Society for Fish Biology 2017 conference, 22–24 July, Albany, WA, #ASFB2017
Illustrations for publications
Figure 1: Schematic representation of direct contributions of mistletoe and indirect contributions mediated via visiting animals. In DM Watson 2016. Fleshing out facilitation—reframing interaction networks beyond top-down versus bottom-up. New Phytologist 211: 803–808.
Figure 1: Position of a crested tern chick while pipping, in cross-section while pipping and during blood collection. In MJ Watson 2012. A blood sampling technique for prehatched chicks. Journal of Field Ornithology, Vol. 83, No. 4, pp. 406–410.
Figure 1: Schematic representation of the formation of a generic islands de novo and by fragmentation. In DM Watson 2009. Continental Islands, pp. 180–188 in Encyclopaedia of Islands (R Gillespie, D Clague, eds.). University of California Press, Berkley.
Figure 1: Illustration of a grey go-away bird building a nest within a mistletoe clump in an acacia; Figure 10-4. Diagrams of host and mistletoe leaves in the Australian genus Amyema.; and Figure 10-5. Examples of white spruce trees with and without dwarf mistletoes In DM Watson 2004. Mistletoe—a unique constituent of canopies worldwide, pp. 212–223 in Forest Canopies, 2nd Edition (M Loman, B Rinker, eds.). Academic Press, New York.
Comics for Austral Ecology
A new initiative at Austral Ecology is to pair pre-published papers with illustrators to make a sort of “visual abstract” but in comic form. Below is one of the comics I did and the link to the paper. Unfortunately I don’t do this anymore… not enough time!
Mellado, A., Hobby, A., Lázaro‐González, A., & Watson, D. M. (2019). Hemiparasites drive heterogeneity in litter arthropods: Implications for woodland insectivorous birds. Austral Ecology.
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