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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.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Incredible images showcase scientists at work
A biologist tracking whales in the Norwegian fjords, a vast telescope pictured below breathtaking skies and a scientist holding tiny froglets all feature in the top images from this year's Nature Scientist at Work competition. Six winners were selected from the more than 200 entries submitted to the competition, which showcases the diverse, fascinating and challenging work that scientists carry out all over the world. Now in its sixth year, the contest is judged by a jury made up of staff from the journal Nature, which runs the competition. The overall winning image was taken by Emma Vogel, a PhD student at the University of Tromsø. It features biologist Audun Rikardsen scanning the water around fishing trawlers in northern Norway for whales while holding an airgun, which he uses to deploy tags that track the marine animals. 'You could smell their breath,' Vogel said of the whales in a competition press release Tuesday. 'And you could hear them before you can see them, which is always quite incredible.' The winning images show scientists in cold and warmer climates. One features researchers boring an ice core in the archipelago of Svalbard, while another shows a biologist holding tiny froglets in California's Lassen National Forest. A scientist is pictured next to a weather balloon in the fog on Mount Helmos in Greece in a separate image, while another shows the vast South Pole Telescope at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole station lit by an aurora overhead. The final winning picture shows the silhouette of a man entering a cabin against the dark backdrop of a starlit sky in eastern Siberia. His colleague, photographer Jiayi Wang, said that, while the remote location where they worked can be beautiful, long periods of time spent there can also be tedious. 'There's no network there. And the only thing you can do is watch the rocks,' he said in the press release.
CNN
13-05-2025
- Science
- CNN
Incredible images showcase scientists at work
A biologist tracking whales in the Norwegian fjords, a vast telescope pictured below breathtaking skies and a scientist holding tiny froglets all feature in the top images from this year's Nature Scientist at Work competition. Six winners were selected from the more than 200 entries submitted to the competition, which showcases the diverse, fascinating and challenging work that scientists carry out all over the world. Now in its sixth year, the contest is judged by a jury made up of staff from the journal Nature, which runs the competition. The overall winning image was taken by Emma Vogel, a PhD student at the University of Tromsø. It features biologist Audun Rikardsen scanning the water around fishing trawlers in northern Norway for whales while holding an airgun, which he uses to deploy tags that track the marine animals. 'You could smell their breath,' Vogel said of the whales in a competition press release Tuesday. 'And you could hear them before you can see them, which is always quite incredible.' A reindeer roaring through the rain, pigeons eyeing a bag of fries -- see the photos shot by photographers of all ages that won this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards. Lynda Kinkade reports. The winning images show scientists in cold and warmer climates. One features researchers boring an ice core in the archipelago of Svalbard, while another shows a biologist holding tiny froglets in California's Lassen National Forest. A scientist is pictured next to a weather balloon in the fog on Mount Helmos in Greece in a separate image, while another shows the vast South Pole Telescope at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole station lit by an aurora overhead. The final winning picture shows the silhouette of a man entering a cabin against the dark backdrop of a starlit sky in eastern Siberia. His colleague, photographer Jiayi Wang, said that, while the remote location where they worked can be beautiful, long periods of time spent there can also be tedious. 'There's no network there. And the only thing you can do is watch the rocks,' he said in the press release.
CNN
13-05-2025
- Science
- CNN
Incredible images showcase scientists at work
A biologist tracking whales in the Norwegian fjords, a vast telescope pictured below breathtaking skies and a scientist holding tiny froglets all feature in the top images from this year's Nature Scientist at Work competition. Six winners were selected from the more than 200 entries submitted to the competition, which showcases the diverse, fascinating and challenging work that scientists carry out all over the world. Now in its sixth year, the contest is judged by a jury made up of staff from the journal Nature, which runs the competition. The overall winning image was taken by Emma Vogel, a PhD student at the University of Tromsø. It features biologist Audun Rikardsen scanning the water around fishing trawlers in northern Norway for whales while holding an airgun, which he uses to deploy tags that track the marine animals. 'You could smell their breath,' Vogel said of the whales in a competition press release Tuesday. 'And you could hear them before you can see them, which is always quite incredible.' A reindeer roaring through the rain, pigeons eyeing a bag of fries -- see the photos shot by photographers of all ages that won this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards. Lynda Kinkade reports. The winning images show scientists in cold and warmer climates. One features researchers boring an ice core in the archipelago of Svalbard, while another shows a biologist holding tiny froglets in California's Lassen National Forest. A scientist is pictured next to a weather balloon in the fog on Mount Helmos in Greece in a separate image, while another shows the vast South Pole Telescope at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole station lit by an aurora overhead. The final winning picture shows the silhouette of a man entering a cabin against the dark backdrop of a starlit sky in eastern Siberia. His colleague, photographer Jiayi Wang, said that, while the remote location where they worked can be beautiful, long periods of time spent there can also be tedious. 'There's no network there. And the only thing you can do is watch the rocks,' he said in the press release.
