Dischmabach catchment, Davos, Switzerland. Credit: Harsh Beria

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_Tree Water_ debuted in the _WILDLAND_ exhibition in early 2025 at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, Calif. It used four video projectors with layered soundscapes to spatially represent a grove of trees and a creek bed. In the darkened space, footage of pigments flowing in water artistically animated the process of rainwater entering soil, roots, branches, and eventually,…

Drilling takes place in 2014 at Lake Magadi, a playa lake in southern Kenya along the East African Rift, during the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project. The project collected cores to help scientists understand the environmental conditions in which humans evolved. Evaporating water leaves behind trona crystals (foreground) on the lake bed. Credit: Robin Renaut