Category: 2024
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Creepy Salts
Label Creepy Salts Artist Semhare Tekle Description When saturated salt solutions dry on glass slides, many beautiful patterns can emerge, but also some creepy ones. Here, such salts assemble into a scary collection of abstract shapes: face (K2SO4), vulture (NaNO3), headshot (Na3PO4) and scarecrow (KNO3). Type Camera Artist Affiliation Undergraduate Student Department Department of Chemistry…
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Proximity: At the Edge of Divergence
Label Proximity: At the Edge of Divergence Artist Lara Haroun Description The chemical reaction of copper with silver nitrate yields intricate depositions known as fractals. The dynamics of their growth as well as the purity of the copper lead to the creation of colorful macroscopic patterns. Proximity is a piece that depicts the electrochemical reaction…
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A Beginning
Label A Beginning Artist Meagan Marowski Description This is an image of a Drosophila egg chamber, marked with fluorescent proteins, illuminating the border cells, follicle cells, and Nurse cells. By studying how the different cells in the egg chamber interact and move with each other, we can apply the mechanisms to similar moving cells, such…
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Magnificent Mangroves
Label Magnificent Mangroves Artist Rachel Biton Description A photograph of black mangroves (Avicennia germinans) located at the fringe edge of Dog Island in Apalachicola Bay, Florida. Type Camera Artist Affiliation Graduate Student Department Department of Biological Science Area of Research Coastal Wetland Ecology Research Group Site Breithaupt Lab Date 2022
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The Florida Bay Scallop
Label The Florida Bay Scallop Artist Morgan Hawkins Description Close-up image of the stunning, alien-like bay scallop that inhabits our shallow seagrass meadows. Type Camera Artist Affiliation Graduate Student Department Department of Biological Science Area of Research Shellfish Restoration Aquaculture Research Group Site Apalachicola Bay System Initiative Date 2022