FRSES 2007 - Photo Contest

2007 Photo Contest Winners:

Best Overall
Best Study Organism
Joshua Colt Gambrel - I was living near this area with a Mongolian family as I researched traditional conceptions of ecosystem interference as a part of a project focusing on animistic conceptions of environmental philosophy.   Elliott Spencer - This is a burrowing owl juvenile who didn't like having its photo taken after we released it.
     
Best Research-in-Action
Best Scene
Chrissina Burke - Research continues in the lab, measuring bison skeletal elements in the spring of 2007.   Charlie Blackburn - Alpine day at the Pingree Park Campus. Looking back towards Fort Collins from the Mummy Range.

More 2007 Photo Contest Entries:

   

Joana Roque de Pinho
This is the vehicle I used during my PhD fieldwork on people-wildlife interactions in Maasailand. It also served other purposes, e.g. ambulance, school bus, livestock transportation, accommodation etc.

 

Mark Oetting
Eagle, at Dowdy Lake (after eating a Trout), Redfeather Lakes, CO.

 

Madeline Scheintaub
Flames in Blue Grama (Bouteloa gracilis)

         
   

Emily Spencer
The Yampa River winds its way through a maze of Weber sandstone before joining the Green River at Echo Park. I caught the last bit of light as the sun was setting on the cliffs.

 

Abby Korte
My field assistant, Kona running along a down Giant Sequoia where we stopped for lunch during one of the many long days of field work in the Sierra National Forest.

 

Josh Metten
This picture was taken while visiting a cat sanctuary in Costa Rica last fall. Larger cats such as this ocelot are becoming more and more rare in the wild as habitat for their large ranges is lost.

         
   

Jeff Derry
Photo taken on North Slope Alaska while taking water samples and surveying lake water levels for the ongoing North Slope Lakes project.

 

Christina Crowther
A young 21 day old Cariolla perspicillata fondly referred to as "Arthur." An avid "watch-bat," he maintained a clear look out while others gorged themselves on melons and bananas.

 

Andrew Don Carlos
Sunset on Lake Kabetogama, Voyageurs Nat. Park, Minnesota. I was working with Joanna Rosendahl (in photo) of the Univ. of Minnesota Coop. Park Studies Unit to estimate summer visitor use patterns.

         
   

Connie Uliasz
More than the usual trouble to find a good parking spot.

 

Ben Horne
Sotol plant, The central stalk has been harvested for basket weaving by Tarahumaran natives.

 

Sara Svatos
The photo was taken while conducting archaeological fieldwork. We knew about the forest fire all summer, but it shifted the day the photo was taken. The reflection of the flames is seen in the clouds.

         
   

Jonathan Straube
Sampling in Hall's Creek, or being sampled.

 

Josh Baker
At the time, I was at the park for a mushroom identification class. I decided to get to the park early to take some pictures before I started looking for mushrooms and ended up with this beautiful shot.

 

Matt Burton
Eat My Beetle! Yellowstone cutthroat trout caught on a size 16 foam beetle.

         
       

 

 

Apple Snider
A western long-eared bat escaping from her "bat burrito" (cloth bag she was resting in after having a radiotransmitter attached to her back).

 



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