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9 News
16-05-2025
- Science
- 9 News
Stunning photography shows what working as a scientist can look like
1 of 7 Attribution: Aman Chokshi/Dagmara Wojtanowicz The Scientist At Work competition is now in its sixth year and invites Nature readers to capture the colourful work that scientists do around the world. Six winners were revealed and one was deemed the overall winner. The winners were selected by a jury of Nature staff.
SBS Australia
13-05-2025
- Science
- SBS Australia
Tiny frogs and fjords: Australian student features in Nature's Science photo competition
Navigating rough seas, boring into ice cores, and a stunning aurora are some of the subjects of stunning photographs highlighting science and discovery. Each year, the academic journal Nature selects its favourite photos for its Scientist At Work competition. This year, a PhD student from the University of Melbourne was one of the six winners announced on Wednesday morning, but the overall prize went to a photo of a scientist braving choppy Norwegian waters on the search for whales. This photograph by Emma Vogel was the best of the over 200 entries and shows biologist Audun Rikardsen. Vogel, his PhD student, captured the scientist conducting fieldwork with a backdrop of Norwegian fjords and sea birds. Rikardsen is holding an airgun with satellite tags that track the movement and behaviour of whales. Another entry from Norway shows two figures on an ice sheet surrounded by impenetrable black. Dagmara Wojtanowicz captured the boring of an ice core by geobiologist James Bradley and microbiologist Catherine Larose in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. The photograph of the massive South Pole Telescope in Antarctica was taken when Aman Chokshi was a PhD student at the University of Melbourne. Chokshi was staying at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole research station when he captured the colourful aurora lighting up the sky. The competition also featured two-time consecutive finalist Ryan Wagner. His image of a cheerful woman, Kate Belleville, shows her holding a small group of froglets in her hands in California's Lassen National Forest.
