Featured Women in STEM: Rosemary Mosco
Rosemary Mosco is a naturalist and science writer who’s making biology more fun and approachable with her nature comics, art, and children’s books.
Image via Rosemarymosco.com
Early Life
Rosemary Mosco grew up in northeastern Canada, and she’s been interested in nature and art since she was a little kid. She thanks her mother for cultivating her interest in the outside world. As a child, her mom would take Mosco on hikes, flipping over rocks in search of snakes and playing with baby praying mantises. When she would get home, she would draw all the plants and animals she had seen in a big sketchbook.
One of Mosco’s favorite of her own comics, “Parts of Birds”
“Meet the Moons”
“Women Naturalists”
Career Path
Despite being told by her college advisor that she couldn’t major in both art and science, Mosco has found a way to combine her two interests. With her comic series Bird and Moon, Mosco delivers all her favorite facts about plants and animals, especially birds, wrapped up in a joke. Mosco says that, “Humor gives science wings!” and she’s always making sure she stays up to date on the latest happenings in the natural world. She goes on lots of hikes and takes notes of all that she sees, as well as attends conferences, listens to podcasts, and reads books and scholarly journals.
Rosemary Mosco’s goal is to connect both kids and adults to the natural world, and she works towards realizing her goal in a variety of ways. Mosco currently has three books on the market. She published a collection of her comics called Birding is My Favorite Video Game, wrote the graphic novel Solar System: Our Place in Space, and co-wrote the New York Times bestseller, The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid. Mosco has also written articles for Audubon and Mental Floss, blog posts for Mass Audubon, Nature Conservancy Canada, Living Alongside Wildlife, and episodes for the upcoming PBS Kids’ show Elinor Wonders Why. She’s given talks and held workshops all around the country, including Birds of Vermont Museum, the Rio Grande Birding Festival, and Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum.
Image via Rosemary Mosco’s Twitter (@RosemaryMosco)
In Her Own Words
Earlier this year, Rosemary Mosco was featured by Science Friday in a video interview. Watch Mosco talk about her work in the video below!
