
Magical Moment in the Field
Madeleine Wrazej
Category: Plants, Algae, & Fungi
Hornstedtia inflorescence was captured in the Modang Botanical Park, the last old secondary forest in Paser District, East Kalimantan. Hornstedtia is a genus in the ginger family native to Southern China, Southeast Asia, Queensland, and some Pacific islands.
[ { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'The Tapir and the Cable-lock', ImageName: 'the-tapir-and-the-cable-lock', url: 'tapir_cable_lock', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: '“One night, a tapir found a cable lock that held a camera trap. She wanted the cable part. So, she tugged, not once, not twice, but thrice pausing before each time. After two minutes of trying, she told herself, ‘This is just too tight!’ and walked away.” \n' + 'These images are of Baird’s tapir (Tapirus bairdii), an endangered and endemic mammal of Central America. They were captured in an infrared camera trap set up by me and my field assistants for a study to understand vertebrate habitat drivers.', FirstName: 'Keerthikrutha', LastName: 'Seetharaman', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/cholanayakar', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'Guanacaste National Park, Costa Rica', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'kskrutha@gmail.com', Date: '24th March 2019', Affiliation: 'Graduate Researcher in Srivastava Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/KSeetharaman_Tapir.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Night at the Field Station', ImageName: 'night-at-the-field-station', url: 'night_field_station', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'There is no greater motivation to understand the Earth’s biodiversity than seeing the billions of stars in our Milky Way and knowing (so far) life exists by just one. While setting up a field experiment to explore how and why plant populations diverge, I took this six-image composite of our field station.', FirstName: 'Jawad', LastName: 'Sakarchi', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/sakarchi_?lang=en', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/sakarchi_/', Location: 'McLaughlin Natural Reserve, northern California', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'sakarchi@zoology.ubc.ca', Date: 'October 7, 2019', Affiliation: 'Graduate student in Germain Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/IMG_0254.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Successful Telemetry in Dragonflies', ImageName: 'successful-telemetry-in-dragonflies', url: 'successful_telemetry', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'This picture of a blue-eyed darner (Rhionaeschna multicolor) equipped with a very light transmitter represents our successful attempt to track dragonflies at UBC farm. Using a receiver and an antenna, the dragonfly was detected flying, foraging, and fighting on multiple occasions afterward. This device helps us to understand the movement and foraging behavior of this predatory insect. Combined with feces metabarcoding, we will determine whether dragonflies play a key role in pest control.', FirstName: 'Rassim', LastName: 'Khelifa', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/rassim_kh?lang=en', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'UBC experimental ponds, Vancouver, Canada', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'rassimkhelifa@gmail.com', Date: '09/28/2020', Affiliation: 'Postdoc in Kremen Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/Telemetry-in-dragonflies.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'A Soak in the Spring Sun', ImageName: 'a-soak-in-the-spring-sun', url: 'spring_sun', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'Fresh out of hibernation, this thirteen-lined ground squirrel is taking the opportunity to begin storing fat for the next winter. Over the next four months it will forage and tidy its burrow in preparation for the long dark. With enough patience, and camouflage, one can capture a close-up like this.\n', FirstName: 'Ryan', LastName: 'Sprenger', TwitterHandle: '', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/sprenr03/', Location: 'Carman Manitoba', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'sprenger@zoology.ubc.ca', Date: 'May 2020', Affiliation: 'Graduate researcher in the Milsom Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/Photo-3.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'yes', ImageTitle: 'Rainforest Superhighways', ImageName: 'rainforest-superhighways', url: 'rainforest_superhighways', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: "Natural bridges created by fallen trees are a vital component of habitat connectivity for many terrestrial mammals... they are also great places to camera trap! This natural bridge near Osa Conservation's research station captured seven different mammal species in five days—a veritable rainforest superhighway. We use camera traps to study how elusive mammals, such as the ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) pictured, respond to variation in habitat quality and connectivity in ecosystems worldwide.", FirstName: 'Christopher', LastName: 'Beirne', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/chris_beirne', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/chris_beirne/', Location: 'Osa Biological Station, Costa Rica', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'c.w.beirne@ubc.ca', Date: 'March 18th 2020', Affiliation: 'Post-doc in the Burton Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/Ocelot-1-of-1.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Trawling: The destruction of marine biodiversity', ImageName: 'trawling-the-destruction-of-marine-biodiversity', url: 'trawling', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'This photo was captured on the island of Koh Sdach in Cambodia on an exploratory field trip to try and scope out how fisheries and seahorse trade had impacted Cambodia’s seahorses. The photo shows an otter trawler located off the coast of Koh Sdach in a protected area. Therefore, the photo shows the destructive impact on marine biodiversity and represents how—in order to deliver effective marine conservation—social, economic, and ecological work must be done to end bottom trawling.', FirstName: 'Adam', LastName: 'Hicks', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/Adam_D_Hicks', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/sticks01/', Location: 'Koh Sdach, Cambodia', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'sticks01@mail.ubc.ca', Date: 'February 2020', Affiliation: 'Graduate student in Project Seahorse', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/AH2020FEB_018.JPG', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Hiding Spot', ImageName: 'hiding-spot', url: 'hiding_spot', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'A decorated warbonnet hides in one of the iconic glass sponge reefs in Howe Sound. I took this photo while diving at a depth of about 25 metres. Although they have bodies up to 42 centimetres long, often you can see only their distinct faces poking out of sponges or cracks.', FirstName: 'Nicole', LastName: 'McEwan', TwitterHandle: '', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/nicole.mcewan/', Location: 'Howe Sound, BC', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'nmcewan94@gmail.com', Date: 'November 15, 2020', Affiliation: 'MSc Student in EOAS', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/PB153265_editted.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Rainbows at Nightfall', ImageName: 'rainbows-at-nightfall', url: 'rainbows_nightfall', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'The work of postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Jared Grummer, investigates recreation and climate effects on rainbow trout. The retrieval of temperature loggers placed in lakes and rivers within Kelowna, BC helps to monitor annual temperature changes. A roaring fire illuminated the trees and tents and a camera light blinked in the distance, capturing a clear night sky. The shimmer of rainbow scales danced through my mind, watching the stars in a sunset sky.', FirstName: 'Carla', LastName: 'Di Filippo', TwitterHandle: '', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/cadventureecology/', Location: 'Graystoke Lake, BC', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'm.carladifilippo@gmail.com', Date: 'August 10, 2020', Affiliation: 'Recent MSc graduate from the Tseng Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/Rainbows_at_nightfall_Carla_Di_Filippo.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Syrphidae', ImageName: 'syrphidae', url: 'syrphidae', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'This is a photo of a hover fly, otherwise known as a flower fly or a syrphid fly. This one was hovering around a group of salal bushes, likely pollinating or maybe just posing for the camera!', FirstName: 'Matt', LastName: 'Tsuruda', TwitterHandle: '', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/matt_tsuruda/', Location: 'Pacific Spirit Park, British Columbia', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'tsuruda@mail.ubc.ca', Date: 'June 10, 2020', Affiliation: 'Graduate Researcher in Land and Food Systems, Carrillo Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/IMG_2826.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Unsuspecting Prey', ImageName: 'unsuspecting-prey', url: 'unsuspecting_prey', ImageOrientation: 'vertical', Description: 'This is a photo of parasitoid wasps on sweet alyssum gathering nectar and pollen. Meanwhile, a large well-camouflaged spider lays in wait for the wasps to be within reach for it to strike and get a meal. The photo was captured for the raspberry/sweet alyssum trials at the UBC Farm. Intercrops, such as planting with sweet alyssum, have been shown to increase insect species richness and diversity by providing diverse microclimates and food sources needed by the natural enemies of insect pests.', FirstName: 'Jennifer', LastName: 'Lipka', TwitterHandle: '', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'UBC Farm', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'jlipka00@mail.ubc.ca', Date: 'September 18, 2019', Affiliation: 'Graduate Researching in PIEE Lab - Dr. Juli Carrillo', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/Unsuspecting_Prey.JPG', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Californian Guano Rock', ImageName: 'californian-guano-rock', url: 'guano_rock', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'While on the lookout for harbour seals along the coastline of California’s oldest state park, I stumbled upon very few seals, but a lot of seabirds. While the guano-covered rock itself offers a rather harsh and barren surface, hundreds of pelicans, seagulls, shorebirds, and cormorants flocked to it taking a break from the stormy waters gushing around it. ‘What an abundance and diversity,’ I thought to myself.', FirstName: 'Veronica', LastName: 'Relano', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/relano_ecija', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'Coast of Big Basin Reedwoods State Park (oldest state park in California)', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'v.relano@oceans.ubc.ca', Date: '25th December 2019', Affiliation: 'PhD Researcher', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/GuanoRock_RELANO.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Beacon of Light...Pollution', ImageName: 'beacon-of-light...pollution', url: 'light_pollution', ImageOrientation: 'vertical', Description: 'This eelgrass bed(time) photo juxtaposes the concept of a beacon of light being hope, when in fact it’s light and energy pollution from a greenhouse contributing to climate change. The eelgrass bed, a symbol of coastal biodiversity and productivity, shown in the foreground is countering climate change and sequestering carbon. Research of this iconic coastal habitat will inform natural climate solutions; working with nature and biodiversity to combat global warming.', FirstName: 'Matt', LastName: 'Christensen', TwitterHandle: '', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'Tsawwassen, British Columbia', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'mattch85@gmail.com', Date: 'December 6, 2020', Affiliation: "Graduate Research in O'Connor Lab", PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/Eelgrass-bed-time-nightlight.jpeg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Self Portrait of a Troubled Moose', ImageName: 'self-portrait-of-a-troubled-moose', url: 'troubled_moose', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'This moose (Alces alces) was "captured" in a camera trap survey in northeastern Alberta. It has a hauntingly beautiful look, but due in part to suffering from hair loss and whitening caused by winter tick infestation. These external parasites can affect moose thermoregulation and thus survival in the cold boreal winters, and may be increasing under climate change.', FirstName: 'Cole', LastName: 'Burton', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/cole_burton', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/cole4wild/', Location: 'Boreal Forest, Northeastern Alberta', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'cole.burton@ubc.ca', Date: '2019-04-13', Affiliation: 'Faculty', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/GhostMoose.JPG', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Unlikely Friends', ImageName: 'unlikely-friends', url: 'unlikely_friends', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'A busy nest-searching bumble bee queen stumbles across an eastern garter snake, no bother, the search must continue.', FirstName: 'Amanda', LastName: 'Liczner', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/aliczner', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/amanda.the.ecologist/', Location: 'Hilton Falls Conservation Area, Ontario', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'amanda.liczner@ubc.ca', Date: 'May 31, 2019', Affiliation: 'BRAES postdoctoral fellow in landscape ecology at UBCo', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/UnlikelyFriends.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Sunrise Through the Seasons at my Vancouver Fieldsite', ImageName: 'sunrise-through-the-seasons-at-my-vancouver-fieldsite', url: 'sunrise_seasons', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: "As COVID-19 swept down around us, many of us have been forced to rethink our far-flung fieldwork plans. Thus, since June 2020, I've been conducting bird surveys locally in Vancouver. I thought that it might get boring, stuck doing surveys on random residential city blocks. But every time it's so different. Different birds, different weather, different experiences, and sometimes a sunrise. I'm excited to see what February brings.\n", FirstName: 'Harold', LastName: 'Eyster', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/haroldeyster', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/eysterart/', Location: 'Vancouver, BC', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'haroldeyster@gmail.com', Date: 'June 1, 2020 through January 7, 2021', Affiliation: "PhD candidate, Kai Chan's Lab", PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/MK_fieldsite_timelapse.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Portrait of a Palm', ImageName: 'portrait-of-a-palm', url: 'portrait_palm', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'Postelsia palmaeformis, commonly known as the sea palm, is a species of kelp that can only be found on the west coast of North America in highly wave-exposed rocky intertidal zones. This charismatic brown alga has evolved a unique set of biomechanical traits that allow it to survive constant battering by waves that often exceed velocities of 2 metres per second. These traits include highly flexible and extensible tissues that are very resistant to wave-induced damage.\n', FirstName: 'Liam', LastName: 'Coleman', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/kelpfiction', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/ljmcoleman/', Location: 'Botanical Beach, British Columbia', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'liam.coleman@botany.ubc.ca', Date: 'July 8, 2020', Affiliation: 'Graduate researcher in Martone Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/LJC6708.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Stopping to Smell the Wildflowers', ImageName: 'stopping-to-smell-the-wildflowers', url: 'wildflowers', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'A curious black bear inspects a camera trap while wading through a field of wildflowers in Cathedral Provincial Park. Our research in the park investigates the relationships between human recreation and animals using non-invasive camera traps, via photos such as this!\n', FirstName: 'Mitchell', LastName: 'Fennell', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/fennell_mitch', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'Cathedral Provincial Park (Syilx Nation Territory)', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'mitchell.fennell@gmail.com', Date: 'August 8, 2019', Affiliation: 'Graduate Researcher in the Burton (WildCo) Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/RCNX0425.JPG', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Galapagos Forest Dweller', ImageName: 'galapagos-forest-dweller', url: 'forest_sweller', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'It was my first field outing with my supervisor, where I could finally put to practice the many bird songs I had been studying over the past few months. We left for the highlands at the crack of dawn, as all birding work requires. As the sun was rising and we were slowly making our way through thick forest, we chanced upon this ray of hope: a young Galapagos woodpecker finch, a rare sighting in the small patch of remaining Scalesia forest on Santa Cruz Island in Galapagos.', FirstName: 'Ilke', LastName: 'Geladi', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/ilke_geladi', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/ilke_geladi/', Location: 'Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos, Ecuador', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'ilkegel@student.ubc.ca', Date: 'February 11th 2019', Affiliation: "PhD student in the WorCs Lab (Claire Kremen's Lab)", PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/LRG_DSC08250.JPG', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Dome Web of a Linyphiidae Spider', ImageName: 'dome-web-of-a-linyphiidae-spider', url: 'dome_web', ImageOrientation: 'vertical', Description: 'This is the web of an adult Linyphiidae spider that I found during my first day of field work in Pacific Spirit Park. While I was initially disappointed to not be doing research in the Ecuadorian rainforest, as was originally planned, it was fascinating to discover the diversity of spiders that exist within my own community, just steps away from UBC campus. Sheet webs, such as this one, provide spiders with protection from predation at the expense of increased energy and resource investment.', FirstName: 'Robin', LastName: 'Glover', TwitterHandle: '', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'Pacific Spirit Regional Park, Vancouver, British Columbia', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'robinglover21@gmail.com', Date: 'July 6, 2020', Affiliation: 'Honours Student in Aviles Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/dome_web_robin_glover_2020.jpeg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Hold your Enemies Closer', ImageName: 'hold-your-enemies-closer', url: 'hold_your_enemies', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'A hairy hermit crab (Pagurus hirsutiusculus), removed from its shell home, gently holds the reproductive sac of the parasitic barnacle (an undescribed Rhizocephalan) by which it is infected.\n', FirstName: 'Alyssa', LastName: 'Gehman', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/alyssamina', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'Calvert Island, BC', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'gehman@zoology.ubc.ca', Date: '2020-08-25', Affiliation: 'Postdoctoral Research Fellow', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/2020-08-25-15.48.33.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Exposed - Aerial Exploration', ImageName: 'exposed-aerial-exploration', url: 'exposed', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'From the air, forests look different. I took this photo on a routine drone flight above my field site to capture photos of the forest canopy. Even though I walked through my field site many times, I had never seen this pond. Aerial photos expose beautiful places that you may not find while traipsing about the field. As field scientists, we learn our field sites so well, but an aerial view gives an entirely new perspective.', FirstName: 'Sarah', LastName: 'Smith-Tripp', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/smithtripp21', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/sarahsmithtripp/', Location: 'Williams Lake, British Columbia', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'sarahsmith.tripp@alumni.ubc.ca', Date: 'June 26th, 2020', Affiliation: 'Graduate Researcher in Schwartz Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Not Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/100_0005_0027-2.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Arapaima', ImageName: 'arapaima', url: 'arapaima', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'Histology offers insight into the inner workings of organisms, sometimes revealing bizarre and beautiful structures. This is a 1 micrometer-thin section through the gills of a larval Arapaima gigas. At home in the Amazon, this giant fish is an obligate air breather—an adaptation to seasonal hypoxia. Its larvae, however, hatch as water breathers. This picture is part of a study on the modifications of the gills and swim bladder throughout their development from water to air breathing.', FirstName: 'Andrea', LastName: 'Frommel', TwitterHandle: '', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'Bioimaging Facility, UBC', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'afrommel@zoology.ubc.ca', Date: '2019', Affiliation: 'Postdoctoral Researcher in Brauner lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2021/01/Arapaima.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Aggregating Sea Anemone Goes Solo', ImageName: 'aggregating-sea-anemone-goes-solo', url: 'sea_anemone', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'Anthopleura elegantissima, commonly known as the aggregating anemone, can be found matting the rocky intertidal of British Columbia. This individual’s striking pink center is comprised of contracted tentacles, while its vibrant green colour comes from symbiotic algal cells that are present in its tissues. I captured this image at Pachena Bay in Bamfield, BC during a study on the distribution and abundance of bleached anemones in 2019.\n', FirstName: 'Miranda', LastName: 'Andersen', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/mirandanders', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'Bamfield, British Columbia', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'miranda.andersn@gmail.com', Date: 'May 11, 2019', Affiliation: 'Undergraduate Researcher in Harley Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2020/12/aggregating-sea-anemone-goes-solo.jpeg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'yes', ImageTitle: 'Intimacy Between Parasitoid and Host', ImageName: 'intimacy-between-parasitoid-and-host', url: 'intimacy', ImageOrientation: 'vertical', Description: 'An intimate capture of a larval parasitoid, Leptopilina japonica, inside a raspberry probing with its ovipositor for its host, the spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii), which is a global pest.', FirstName: 'Warren', LastName: 'Wong', TwitterHandle: '', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'Agassiz, Canada', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'warren.h.l.wong@gmail.com', Date: '2019-11-06', Affiliation: 'Graduate Researcher in Carrillo Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2020/12/WHLW_Leptopilina_japonica.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Early Bird Catches the Worm', ImageName: 'early-bird-catches-the-worm', url: 'early_worm', ImageOrientation: 'vertical', Description: 'A light lunch at Boundary Bay Regional Park.', FirstName: 'Inez', LastName: 'Luk', TwitterHandle: '', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'Boundary Bay', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'fionn.w@hotmail.com', Date: 'November 1, 2020', Affiliation: 'No Affilliation', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2020/12/123452654_5193435777348535_2962134698484692945_o.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Touch my Fluffy Ears...I Dare You', ImageName: 'touch-my-fluffy-ears...i-dare-you', url: 'fluffy_ears', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'We set up this camera trap in a second-growth forest in the east Kootenays of BC. This cougar happened to prowl along right in front of the camera in the dead of night. The definition in the whiskers, muscles, and vertebrae blew our minds!\n', FirstName: 'Alexia', LastName: 'Constantinou', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/wildlife_alexia', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/alexiacatherine/', Location: 'East Kootenays, BC', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'alexia.constantinou@icloud.com', Date: 'March 25, 2020', Affiliation: 'Graduate student in Burton Lab (WildCo)', PromotionalConsent: 'Not Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2020/12/E127AF05-C481-47AC-9D1E-E80C9510892A_1_201_a.jpeg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Huckleberry Guardian', ImageName: 'huckleberry-guardian', url: 'huckleberry_guardian', ImageOrientation: 'vertical', Description: 'Vaccinium deliciosum are delicious, and are a special treat among the subalpine meadows of the Cascades in August and September. However this particular berry has been claimed.', FirstName: 'Elise', LastName: 'Pletcher', TwitterHandle: '', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'Central Cascades', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'elisepletcher@gmail.com', Date: 'September 2019', Affiliation: 'Graduate Researcher Schwartz lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2020/12/IMG-1700.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Old-Growth Sunshine', ImageName: 'old-growth-sunshine', url: 'old_growth', ImageOrientation: 'vertical', Description: 'A rare beam of sunlight breaks through the thick old-growth canopy and two giant red cedar snags at the Forest MacroSystems site in Capilano Watershed. The vast majority of old-growth forest in the Lower Mainland has been logged extensively, so getting to work in and advance our understanding of this unique temperate rainforest ecosystem is an incredible opportunity.', FirstName: 'Isaac', LastName: 'Borrego', TwitterHandle: '', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'Capilano Watershed, Vancouver, BC', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'isaac.borrego@botany.ubc.ca', Date: 'July 30, 2020', Affiliation: 'Graduate Researcher in Michaletz Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2020/12/IMG_20200730_151348.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'The King of Malcolm Knapp', ImageName: 'the-king-of-malcolm-knapp', url: 'the_king', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: 'The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in closures of parks, universities, and public spaces worldwide. Luckily we had already deployed remotely triggered cameras throughout Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, as well as the adjacent Golden Ears Provincial Park, to monitor how wildlife respond to recreational activity. Now, our research is honing in on understanding exactly how recreational activity—or a sudden lack of it—might affect where and when wildlife, such as this black bear, will come out to play.\n', FirstName: 'Michael', LastName: 'Procko', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/xprockox', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/xprockox/', Location: 'Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, BC', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'xprockox@gmail.com', Date: 'May 1, 2020', Affiliation: 'Graduate Researcher in Burton Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2020/11/RCNX1932.JPG', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'no', ImageTitle: 'Freerider', ImageName: 'freerider', url: 'freerider', ImageOrientation: 'horizontal', Description: "A non-photosynthetic dinoflagellate, Blastdinium sp. (a white mass), is found in the gut of a copepod caught in a plankton tow. The tiny cell swallowed by the animal grows to form a large multicellular trophocyte as shown here; upon maturation, hundreds of the new-born sporocytes will be released eventually from the animal's rear end.\n", FirstName: 'Noriko', LastName: 'Okamoto', TwitterHandle: 'https://twitter.com/noricorino', InstagramHandle: 'https://www.instagram.com/noricorino_/', Location: 'Quadra Island, BC, Canada', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 'okamoton@mail.ubc.ca', Date: '2020.11.24', Affiliation: 'Honorary Research Associate in Keeling Lab', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2020/11/Blast2_005_small.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 }, { Award: 'yes', ImageTitle: "A Cougar's Gaze", ImageName: 'a-cougars-gaze', url: 'cougars_gaze', ImageOrientation: 'vertical', Description: 'I photographed this 1.5-year-old female cougar (Puma concolor) during field work for my PhD project on cougar ecology. I am fitting GPS collars on adult cougars across southern British Columbia to learn about their elusive lives. I study where they go, what they eat, and whether human modifications to their habitat (e.g. roads, forest clearcutting) are impacting their behaviour and survival to inform conservation and management of the species.', FirstName: 'Siobhan', LastName: 'Darlington', TwitterHandle: '', InstagramHandle: '', Location: 'Okanagan, British Columbia', 'Alt-Tag': 'alt tag needed', Email: 's.darlington@ubc.ca', Date: 'November 11 2020', Affiliation: 'PhD student, WiRE & Hodges Labs', PromotionalConsent: 'Checked', RulesConsent: 'Checked', UploadSubmission: 'https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/files/gravity_forms/25-779ae20e39ba47601ff8236fa8d08324/2020/11/SDarlington_PhotoEntry_Cougar.jpg', 'competition-year': 21 } ]