Kate LoMedico Marriott, the 29-year-old artist behind history’s most exhaustive reconstructions of heteromorph ammonites and multiple visual conservation projects, has been inducted into the world’s most elite alliance for ocean artists, the Ocean Artists Society.

The Ocean Artists Society, or OAS, was founded by legendary ocean painter Wyland, whose breathtaking murals of whales are known and loved around the world. It exists as a highly elite professional network of diverse artists whose work aims to garner public support for conservation efforts.