John Valadez
John Valadez is a painter and muralist who takes as his subject the urban landscape and people of Los Angeles. In Conversations John Valadez celebrates the delicate beauty of Crustacea, the ocean's architects.
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Jody Martin
Jody Martin is Curator of Crustacea and Chief of the Division of Invertebrate Studies. His research interests include the morphology (shape, function, and adaptation), natural history, and evolutionary relationships of crabs, lobsters, and shrimps.
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Crustacea
In Conversations, John Valadez's Crustacea Oceana finds a model canoe, submarine model motion picture prop and Heermann's Gull among the beauty of Crustacea.
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