NYCA, as part of their regional shorebirds research programs, conducts a survey of the Horseshoe Crab population along New York City's stretch of Atlantic Ocean coastline. Horseshoe crabs eggs are favorite foods of migratory red knots, a species classified as threatened by the EPA. The data collected here went into the larger Harbor Herons program. 

The Harbor Herons project is an ongoing shorebird monitoring project, then led by Dr. John Rowden. Nim was hired to create materials and provide training and technical leadership, to partnering organizations such as, Rocking the Boat, shown here.

 

Nim brings her science knowledge and wide-ranging skills when tackling graphic design problems. For a Hudson River Valley public signage project, she was able to go beyond the normal functions of a graphic designer: copy editing, fact checking, and correcting maps. 

 

Nim's sculptures are teaching tools for science. She sometimes makes exact replicas of nature, as she did at the American Museum of Natural History and as shown here for the Bronx Zoo, or she interprets nature, as pictured here in her reworking of the Big Mouth Sculpture in its permanent home at The Virginia Children's Museum. With interactive exhibition firm, Moey Inc., she helped  transform an existing large scale human mouth model into a interactive multi-media sculpture.  After deconstructing the model, the team retrofitted an LED monitor and an array of touch sensors.