Category: 2026
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Two Blue Herons
Label Two Blue Herons Artist Lauren Pinder Description Two blue herons build their nest in the Wakodahatchee Wetlands Nature Preserve in Palm Beach County, Florida. Type Canon EOS 30D camera Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science Date 2025
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Patience
Label Patience Artist Lauren Pinder Description A blue heron takes extreme caution to stalk its prey in the Wakodahatchee Wetlands Nature Preserve in Palm Beach County, Florida. Type Canon EOS 30D camera Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science Date 2025
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Return to the Earth
Label Return to the Earth Artist Ava Osborne Description Skull of a deer found in Tennessee. Organic shapes in the grooves of the skull are highlighted to show beauty in death comparable to life. Type Canon camera Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science Area of Research Geology and environmental…
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Concrete Dweller
Label Concrete Dweller Artist Ava Osborne Description Invasive Bulimulus bonariensis found on concrete. This photograph focuses on the duality of invasive species in human habitats and their beauty. The lack of natural habitat forces them into human spaces, and introduces humans to a new world. Type Canon camera Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of…
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Filtration
Label Filtration Artist Eva Mustian Description Photographed are Sargassum leachate filters. Each filter contains dissolved organic matter derived from Sargassum leachate. The brown coloration reflects the concentration and composition of organic compounds retained on the membrane, with darker tones indicating greater accumulation of carbon-rich material. Type iPhone 16 camera Artist Affiliation Graduate student Department Department…
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Anthropogenic Constellations
Label Anthropogenic Constellations Artist Chanice Brown Description This photograph captures the way cities come alive after dark. Nighttime lights reveal the hidden structure of a city, illuminating roads, neighborhoods, and the rhythms of day-to-day life. Through the lens of Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing, this glow becomes a spatial story of human activity, giving…
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Butterfly Proboscis
Label Butterfly Proboscis Artist Catherine Fidd Description This is a scanning electron microscope image of a butterfly’s proboscis, the feeding tube used to ingest liquids. The flexible tube has a complex topography, imperceptible to the naked human eye. Humans’ current manufacturing abilities are still inferior to animal microstructures designed over millions of years of evolution.…
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Cycle of Rebirth
Label Cycle of Rebirth Artist Angela Espenscheid Description From death springs new, resilient life. How does biology stimulate this cycle of life and death? Type Graphite illustration edited in Adobe Photoshop Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of Art History Area of Research Museum studies Date 2023
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Sodalite Crystal
Label Sodalite Crystal Artist Jennifer Scheckowitz Description A sodalite crystal under a Keyence VHX-7000 microscope at 500x magnification. Type Keyence VHX-7000 microscope Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of Physics Area of Research Chemical engineering Date 2026
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Biotite Schist under UV Light
Label Biotite Schist under UV Light Artist Jennifer Scheckowitz Description Biotite schist under a Keyence VHX-7000 microscope at 80x magnification under a UV light source. Type Keyence VHX-7000 microscope Artist Affiliation Undergraduate student Department Department of Physics Area of Research Chemical engineering Date 2026