GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist and her five parrots are currently relocating to Germany, where she will continue writing her blog while also writing a book and learning German. (Meanwhile, her parrots will continue to nibble on her extensive personal library.) If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, you can help pay her living expenses by hiring her to "blog" your conference, speak at your club or write articles for your publication (or by clicking on the Paypal button below). If you read an essay on this blog that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for inclusion in 
tags: Journey to the Center of the Earth, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife
A journey to the center of the earth (view 1, uptown stairway)
as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the NYC uptown subway stop (A-B-C)
at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash).
If you look closely, you can see fossils in the rock layers.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [wallpaper size].
A journey to the center of the earth (view 2, downtown stairway)
as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the NYC uptown/downtown subway stop (A-B-C)
at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash).
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [wallpaper size].
Read more about the AMNH tile artworks and see the AMNH tile artworks photographic archives -- with all the animals identified.
Humanities & Social Science
Comments
That is cool.
Posted by: The Ridger | January 30, 2008 9:19 PM
Simply amazing. These images alone are enough to make me want to visit NYC.
Posted by: A | January 31, 2008 9:51 PM