{"id":29,"name":"Val Kells","url":"","description":"Val Kells is an author and highly regarded Marine Science Illustrator whose specialty is marine and brackish water fishes. Her work is precise, highly detailed and scientifically accurate.\r\n\r\nVal recently illustrated, designed and co-authored \u201cA Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: from Alaska to California.\u201d This four-and-a-half year project includes almost 700 species descriptions and over 950 illustrations of Pacific coast fishes that occur from the border of Canada to the border of Mexico. This important book is the companion to \u201cA Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: from Maine to Texas,\u201d which she also co-authored and designed and for which she produced 1,079 full-color illustrations. Other notable books that feature her work include \u201cField Guide to Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay\u201d and the forthcoming \u201cTunas and Billfishes of the World.\u201d\r\n\r\nVal has also developed and produced thousands of full-color, black-and-white and mixed-media identification and interpretive illustrations for permanent and temporary displays at over 30 public aquariums, museums and nature centers both in the US and abroad.\r\n\r\nVal received her degree in Environmental Science and Science Communication and Illustration from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1986. An avid fisherman and naturalist, Val loves exploring and spending time on the water with family and friends.\r\n\r\nFor more about Val please visit:\r\nwww.coastalfishes.com\r\nwww.valkellsillustration.com","link":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/author\/val_kells\/","slug":"val_kells","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/12\/Val-Kells-Quick-Reference-author-pic1-2-e1525131489847.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/12\/Val-Kells-Quick-Reference-author-pic1-2-e1525131489847.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/12\/Val-Kells-Quick-Reference-author-pic1-2-e1525131489847.jpg"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickreferencepublishing.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}