One practice, not four separate careers.
Research, mentorship, community work, and creative practice are not adjacent activities here. They are the same inquiry, conducted at different scales.
Planetary questions don't stay planetary.
Eriita's work began in the geochemistry of ancient planetary surfaces — what conditions allow life to take hold, and where else in the solar system those conditions might exist.
Over time, the same questions about habitability kept surfacing in urban ecology, in student fieldwork, in community gardens. The research didn't branch — it deepened.
Independent practice made that coherence possible. Accountable to evidence and to the people the work affects — not to a department's research agenda.
Three principles, not three departments.
Grounded in evidence
Mentorship as method
Creative work as thinking
Every claim traces back to data, field observation, or peer-reviewed literature. Independence doesn't mean freedom from rigour — it means rigour without institutional shortcuts.
Studio practice and community projects aren't sidelines. They are a different register of the same intellectual work — one that keeps the science honest and human.
Teaching and student conversations are not service obligations. They sharpen the questions and surface assumptions the research can't see in isolation.
The research portfolios document where these questions have led — across planetary surfaces, urban field sites, and the interdisciplinary work in between.