artic fox in Sassendalen, Svalbard (Norway)

 

Arctic Fox by Xavier Comas, Ph.D., was one of almost 150 submissions in the 2019 Art of Science photo contest. Comas is a professor in the department of of geosciences in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. Arctic Fox was taken while Comas was in Sassendalen, Svalbard, Norway, one of the world's northernmost inhabited areas, during a geophysical campaign in the Arctic in August 2019 to characterize carbon accumulation using geophysical methods. The campaign collaboration was funded by the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.

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It’s Time to Submit your Photographs to the 2020 Art of Science

Welcome to the second annual Division of Research Art of Science photography contest, an opportunity to showcase the cutting-edge research, scholarship and creativity happening across all the colleges.

Last year, almost 150 photographs highlighted research across a variety of disciplines. Your photographs help educate others in all the unique research taking place at FAU – in the field, in the lab and everywhere in between.

Arctic Fox, above, by Xavier Comas, Ph.D., is an example of just one of the many submissions last year. Comas is a professor in the department of geosciences in Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.

Open to all members of the FAU community – students, faculty and staff – the Division of Research is accepting new photograph submissions through Oct. 15, 2020.

In addition to prizes like an iPad, top photographs may also be published in an upcoming issue of Owl Research and Innovation magazine.

Check out all the contest details and submit today at woobox.com/8nqc3m.

If you would like more information, please contact us at dorcommunications@fau.edu.