This year we are having a friendly photo competition, with winners being announced at the Graduate Student Spring Symposium. Each EEB graduate student can enter one biological photo they have taken, with a short caption including relevant details and the significance of the photo. To enter, send your photo and caption to Frank W. Smith (frank.smith@uconn.edu). A few days before the Spring Symposium (March 19), I'll send a link to the eeb-grad list to an on-line voting site.
2011 Photo Entrants
This is a photo of a flower bud from Eucalyptus macrocarpa, an odd eucalyptus species with very large leaves and flowers. The bud is about the size of a large grapefruit, and the bright red peeking out is the stamens--the flower has no petals. I took this photo in Kings Park in Perth, Western Australia, where it is native but rather uncommon. - James Mickley
This is my favorite photo from my recent trip to Ecuador. A member of our group captured this little treefrog (unsure of the species) and brought it to me to photograph. It hopped away and huddled under some rocks, providing the perfect pose. - Brigette Zacharczenko
Working on the CT coast, it is hard to escape the influence of humans. Here, a herring gull, a "trash bird," pics up a piece of trash, yet the scene is somehow beautiful. I took this photo shortly after dawn at the Barn Island boat launch, which is is adjacent to one of my salt marsh field sites. - Alyssa Borowske
This is probably one of the most boring species of hummingbirds (in terms of the bright iridescent colors you would like to see in a picture), but I love it because only males have the crazy hook at the very tip of the beak. And no one knows why! My hypothesis: Sexually-dimorphic weapons. I took it in southern Brazil, last year. - Alejandro Rico Guevara
This photo is a picture of a baby two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) taken in La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. - Laura Cisneros
I took this photo on my OTS plant systematics course in 2008. At this point, we are in the Costa Rican páramo, close to the remote field station, Cuerici. I was experimenting with my camera's macro option when I got this shot of mushrooms growing out of a tree. - Vanessa Boukili
It's a snapping turtle from the Fenton. - Bill Ryerson
Killdeer. Housatonic River, spring 2008. - Sue Meiman
This is a photo of the moss Leucobryum albidum growing here in Connecticut. This moss can grow in patches that are large enough to sit upon. When you touch the top of this moss cushion it feels soft and dry. However all of the individuals packed together function as a sponge and store water within the colony. In that way there is moisture available for the moss to undergo photosynthesis even when it is dry on the outer layers. So beware having seat on this mossy cushion, you could end up quite wet. - Jessica Budke
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