Tamara Clark brings a range of experiences, skills and knowledge to her work as an illustrator and designer, the scope of which has focused her vision on the importance of scientific and artistic collaboration in raising awareness about the issues facing the natural world.

Tamara received a B.A. in Biology from Goucher College in 1994 and an M.S. in Forest Ecology from the University of Maine in 1996. Her thesis was on the regeneration and growth patterns of red oak in relation to disturbance and land- use history. Following her Masters she moved to Washington DC where she was trained in traditional fish illustration at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and joined the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. She has been an active member of the Guild since 1996 and regularly participates in local and national workshops and meetings.

In the Sciences, Tamara has worked as a field assistant with common terns (Great Gull Island Project), collected foresty data for a long-term ecological research station (University of Maine and the Holt Research Forest), and measured carbon flux in arctic tundra plants for the the Ecosystems Center at the MBL. In education, she's worked with middle school children as a naturalist and taught scientific illustration to young adults. In design, Tamara was employed as a reprographics technician for the MBL, as a web designer and database manager for the BioCurrents Research Center (MBL), and as a freelance illustrator for the Smithsonian and many other institutions, labs and non-profit groups.

Tamara also produces a line of cards and prints of local marine life and threatened species from around the world which highlight their unique beauty and describe their ecological role in the interconnected web of life. >> view cards and prints. She now makes her home on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.