2023 PSECCO Photo Contest Winners Announced!

Date

Dec 8, 2023

PSECCO hosted a photo contest in the fall of 2023 to showcase the beauty of the polar regions and to feature early career scientists who work in them. We invited photos of fieldwork, research stations and sites, communities and daily life, wildlife, and natural and cultural landscapes. We judged photo submissions on composition, originality, use of color, and artistry.

We plan to use the submitted photos for outreach, engagement, and communications coming from the community office. Be on the lookout for these photos in upcoming newsletters, on our website and in other promotions!

We received a wide variety of spectacular photos, and it was difficult to only choose 10 winning photos among them! Below is the list of this year’s three photo contest winners and seven honorable mentions. Congratulations to these photographers for their unique and spectacular photos, and thank you to every one of you who submitted photos to this year's photo contest!

First Place: Dylan Bodhi Beard - Impacts of Our Actions
Second Place: Sappho Gilbert - Balanced Growler in a Still Moment of Reflection
Third Place: Maria Monakhova - Local Holding a Salmon

Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):

Jona Silberberg - Longyearbyen, Spring 2023
Brandon Samuel Whitley - Ilulissat Stormy
Camryn Kluetmeier - Spring High Water
Laura Larocca - Quvnerit Lake
Brandon Samuel Whitley - Scenic Greenland
Meghan A. Sharp - Twisted Dryas
Sappho Gilbert - Handprint-kissed Rusted Oil Drum in Nunavut

First Place: Dylan Bodhi Beard - Impacts of Our Actions