These awesome pieces of artwork from The Utility Collective and Hub Strategy feature marine themes and are printed on plywood. For every purchased plywood print, $10 are donated to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a non-profit organization whose mission is to conserve and protect the ocean’s ecosystems and marine species. The four scenes depicted are a seahorse, two different whales, and a shark. 

While observing the distribution of organisms found on the seafloor, whose lives are based off of “marine snow”—organic particles that fall from larger marine organisms in the sea above, also taught to Mariana and I as “poop and dead stuff”—biologist Craig McClain and colleagues found this fantastic array of various species in one scoop of mud from the seafloor. Depending on the “snowfall”, a community of these organisms could vary extensively in just a few feet.

“It’s easy, when you get away from the coast, to think of the oceans as a homogeneous blue. It’s a lot more complex than that,” said McClain. [x]