Scientific illustration · PAPIME 2025

Ocean Literacy

Visualizing the Ocean for Education

Cultura oceánica: Visualizando el Océano para la educación is a 2025 educational project of the Support Program for Projects to Innovate and Improve Education (PAPIME, PE207024) at UNAM, led by Dr. Elva Escobar Briones.

Enya joined the team as scientific illustrator. Her watercolors of deep-sea species are the core of a series of educational sheets in Spanish, which pair each painting with scientific information about the species, its life in cold-water coral ecosystems and the impact of bottom trawling.

The watercolors also circulate as #CulturaOceánica para llevar pieces, each with a QR code.

Watercolors

6 pieces

Shrimp, by Enya Santamaría — Fig. 01Shrimp2025 · Watercolor · #CulturaOceánica

Squid, by Enya Santamaría — Fig. 02Squid2025 · Watercolor · #CulturaOceánica

Porcupinefish, by Enya Santamaría — Fig. 03Porcupinefish2025 · Watercolor · #CulturaOceánica

Squat lobster, by Enya Santamaría — Fig. 04Squat lobster2025 · Watercolor · #CulturaOceánica

Crab, by Enya Santamaría — Fig. 05Crab2025 · Watercolor · #CulturaOceánica

Orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus, by Enya Santamaría — Fig. 06Orange roughy, *Hoplostethus atlanticus*2025 · Watercolor · #CulturaOceánica

Educational sheets

In Spanish · PDF

Deep-sea squat lobsters, Chirostyloidea, by Enya Santamaría — Fig. 07Deep-sea squat lobsters, *Chirostyloidea*Prepared by Adriana Gaytán-Caballero, Paola Flores Solís and Elva Escobar Briones · Painting: Enya SantamaríaOpen PDF ↗