Helina Chin is broadly interested in science illustration, graphic design, and photography. Also, good food, good coffee, and good times.

Helina is a Graphics Communications Specialist at the University of California Museum of Paleontology at UC Berkeley. She holds a B.S. in Plant Biology and Art Studio Minor from UC Davis and Science Illustration Certificate from CSU Montery Bay. She completed an internship with Alice Tangerini at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

(Pictured: Helina with her Deeptime Depictions Mug collection. Photo credit Jordan Power, Berkeley Art Studio)

Mentions and Publications:

Juan Liu (2021) Redescription of ‘Amyzon’ brevipinne and remarks on North American Eocene catostomids (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 19:9, 677-689, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2021.1968966

Department of Botany & the U.S. National Herbarium, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Intern makes old drawings look new,  Plant Press Vol. 16 no. 4, October 2013, https://nmnh.typepad.com/the_plant_press/2013/12/intern-makes-old-drawings-look-new.html

Market Street Chinatown Progress Report, Historical Archaeology Laboratory, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University, Lead by Dr. Barbara Voss. https://marketstreet.stanford.edu/mscap-2013-2014-progress-report-final/