#ScientistAtWork Competition Names 5 Winners From 220 Entries, Led by 2,800-Km Ibis Migration Shot
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Updated · Nature.com · Jun 9
#ScientistAtWork Competition Names 5 Winners From 220 Entries, Led by 2,800-Km Ibis Migration Shot
2 articles · Updated · Nature.com · Jun 9
Summary
Five winning images were unveiled in this year’s #ScientistAtWork contest, with student Gunnar Hartmann taking the overall prize for a photo of northern bald ibises guided by an ultralight aircraft over southern Spain.
Hartmann shot the image while volunteering on Waldrappteam’s 50-day, 2,800-kilometre migration project, which hand-raises the birds and leads them from southeast Germany to southwest Spain to support their reintroduction in Europe.
More than 220 submissions were entered from around the world, and each winner will receive £500 and publication in Nature.
The other selected images spotlight research on Red Sea coral adaptation to warming waters, whale-shark skin microbes at Ningaloo Reef, toxic algal blooms in Ontario tracked with eDNA, and fluorescent mosquito-feeding experiments at Notre Dame.