The Efficiency Solution ROLE: art direction and graphic; PRODUCT: VIEW department page, Scientific American Earth3.0, June 2009; source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy; spread © Scientific American

Mekong Peril ROLE: box design and graphic PRODUCT “Casualties of Climate Change,” By Alex de Sherbinin, Koko Warner and Charles Ehrhart, Scientific American January 2011(sources: CIESIN; IFPRI; World Bank; CIAT; 2009 GRUMP, Beta Version: Population Density Grids; SEDAC (population density); Navin Ramankutty et al.; 2010, Global Agricultural Croplands, 2000; SEDAC, http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/es/aglands.html (area under cropland); AndrewJarvisetal.; 2008, SRTMthe globe Version 4, CGIAR-CSI SRTM90m Database, http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org (projected flooding area) © Scientific American

Water Consumption ROLE: page design and graphic; PRODUCT: “Water In, Water Out,” by Mark Fischetti; Graphic Science department page, Scientific American, June 2012 © Scientific American

Rare Earths and Critical Minerals ROLE: box design and graphics; PRODUCT: “Global Demand Stresses Limited Supply,” by Mark Fischetti, a sidebar in “Afghanistan’s Buried Riches.” by Sarah Simpson, Scientific American, October 2011 © Scientific American

Planned Cuts in Emissions ROLE: design and graphic; PRODUCT: “All Climate Is Local,” by Cynthia Rosenzweig, Scientific American September 2011 SOURCE: CARBON DISCLOSURE PROJECT, KPMG ADVISORY N.V. © Scientific American

El Niño and La Niña ROLE: art direction and research; PRODUCT: “El Niño, La Niña: Nature’s Vicious Cycle,” By Curt Suplee, National Geographic, March 1999; illustration © Heidi Merscher; spread © National Geographic

Colossal Coup ROLE: art direction and graphic; PRODUCT: “Triumph of the Titans,” by Kristina A. Curry Rogers and Michael D. D’Emic, Scientific American, May 2012; illustration © Raul Martin, spread ©Scientific American

Three Promising Vaccine Strategies ROLE: art direction and research; PRODUCT: “Halting the World’s Most Lethal Parasite,” By Mary Carmichael; Scientific American, November 2010; illustration © Peter and Maria Hoey; spread © Scientific American

How to See Neutrinos ROLE: art direction and design PRODUCT: “Through Neutrino Eyes,” by Graciela B. Gelmini, Alexander Kusenko and Thomas J. Weiler, Scientific American, May 2010; illustration © George Retseck; scale icons © Jessica Huppi; photograph: courtesy of Reina Maruyama, National Science Foundation; spread © Scientific American

Aging Fleet under Review ROLE: art direction, box design, and graphics; PRODUCT: “Planning for the Black Swan,” by Adam Piore, Scientific American, June 2011; reactor illustrations and map © Don Foley; sources: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Nuclear Energy Institute; USGS (earthquake risk map pattern overlay); spread © Scientific American

A Precocious Peopling ROLE: box design and art direction; PRODUCT: “The First Americans,” by Heather Pringle, Scientific American November 2011; illustrations © Tyler Jacobson, map © XNR Productions; sources: courtesy of Jon M. Erlandson, University of Oregon (Santa Rosa spearhead); courtesy of Michael R. Waters, Texas A&M University (Clovis and Friedkin spearheads); from “The Late Pleistocene Dispersal of Modern Humans in the Americas,” by Ted Goebel et al., in Science, vol. 319; March 14, 2008 (timeline: glacial maximum and corridor opening dates have been updated with other sources); Consultants: Kennedy Munyikwa, Athabasca University and Michael R. Waters (ice sheets); Quentin Mackie, University of Victoria (coastal route vignette); Stuart J. Fiedel, Louis Berger Group and Ben Potter, University of Alaska Fairbanks (land route); spread © Scientific American

Breaking the Deep-Space Barrier ROLE: art direction; PRODUCT: “This Way to Mars,” by Damon Landau and Nathan J. Strange, Scientific American, December 2011; illustration © Pitch Interactive; sources: NASA (Earth and moon imagery); spread © Scientific American

Different Species for Different Reasons ROLE: art direction; PRODUCT: “The Ultimate Social Network,” by Jennifer Ackerman, Scientific American, June 2012; illustration © Bryan Christie; Source: “Inside the Microbial and Immune Labyrinth: Gut Microbes: Friends or Fiends?” by Warren Strober, in Nature Medicine , VOL. 16; 2010 (B. fragilis case study) ); spread © Scientific American

Why We Die ROLE: art direction and graph set-up; PRODUCT: “How We All Will Live to Be 100,” by Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, September 2012; illustration © Chad Hagen; Source: OECD Health Data 2011

Sponge Earth photograph by Cary Wolinsky, earth satellite image from NASA (the Visible Earth), digital manipulation and compilation by Jen Christiansen; © Cary Wolinsky (trilliumstudios.com).

Space-Time Einstein photograph by Cary Wolinsky, digital manipulation and space-time distortion by Jen Christiansen; © Cary Wolinsky (trilliumstudios.com)

Colony Collapse Disorder ROLE: illustration and page design; PRODUCT: “Saving the Honeybee,” By Diana Cox-Foster and Dennis VanEngelsdorp, Scientific American, April 2009; © Scientific American; (associated photos from top to bottom: Heidi and Hans-Jurgen Koch, Minden Pictures; Andrew Syred, Photo Researchers, Inc.; Central Science Laboratory, Photo Researchers, Inc.; Courtesy of Barton Smith, Jr. USDA Bee Research Laboratory)

The Chemistry of Thickening and Gelling illustration by Jen Christiansen; PRODUCT: Modernist Cuisine; The Art and Science of Cooking, by Nathan Myhrvold, with Chris Young and Maxime Bilet, Volume 4; 2011, © The Cooking Lab, LLC

The Avian Advantage ROLE: art direction and illustration; PRODUCT: “What Birds See,” By Timothy H. Goldsmith, Scientific American, July 2006; illustration © Jen Christiansen.

Batodonoides vanhouteni A reconstruction of the smallest known non-flying mammal (left), with a modern Etruscan shrew (right) for scale; illustration © National Geographic

The Immune Paradox ROLE: art direction and illustration; PRODUCT: “The Malignant Flame,” by Gary Stix, Scientific American July 2007; illustration © Jen Christiansen

Recipe for Nanobacteria ROLE: art direction and illustration; PRODUCT: “The Rise and Fall of Nanobacteria,” by John D. Young and Jan Martel, Scientific American, January 2010; illustration © Scientific American; associated photos by John D. Young and Jan Martel (top three micrographs); “Putative Nanobacteria Represent Physiological Remnants and Culture By-Products of Normal Calcium Homeostasis,” by John D. Young et al., in PLOS ONE, Vol. 4, No. 2; February 9, 2009 (bottom two micrographs).

Tumor Pathways ROLE: art direction and illustration; PRODUCT: “Gaining Ground on Breast Cancer,” by Francisco J. Esteva and Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, Scientific American, June 2008; illustration © Scientific American