Polar Week Photo Competition Spring 2017

During the APECS International Polar Week 20 - 26 March 2017, we are organising a photo competition, PolarPeople, where everyone will be able to vote for the best photo in three different categories

• 1- PolarPeople in action;
• 2- PolarPelople at home;
• 3- PolarPeople & wildlife.

Thank you to the photographers for submitting so many great photos!. And now it is time to:

Vote for your favourite photos!

Look up the photo numbers and the names of the photographers of the photos that you like best in the three categories. And then submit your vote in the polls below:

• PolarPeople in action: https://goo.gl/r09qlg
• PolarPeople at home: https://goo.gl/LorTId
• PolarPeople & wildlife: https://goo.gl/tWNfdQ

You can vote for one photo per category.

Voting deadline is Tuesday 28 March 2017 at 21:00 GMT. The photographers of the best photo in each category will win 100 Euros towards travel to a conference of their choice. The winners will be announced after the voting deadline.

Rules and Regulations

• 1. Eligibility

  1.1. The competition is open only to APECS International members, if you’re still not a member please join before submitting any picture.

  1.2. Pictures that have won prizes in prior competitions, or have been used for commercial purposes will not be eligible.

• 2. Submission of Entries

  2.1. Pictures must be submitted by email to info@apecs.is with the subject “Photo_competition your name” (e.g. Photo_competition José Seco)

  2.2. The picture has to feature people, at least one Homo sapiens sapiens and to fit in one of the three categories: 1- PolarPeople in action; 2- PolarPeople at home; 3- PolarPeople & wildlife. PolarPeople in action includes conducting field work or doing activities, PolarPeople at home should include a resident of the poles, and PolarPeople & wildlife must include a person with either polar flora or fauna.

  2.3. The submission email as to have: Name, affiliation and email address of the photographer; Where and when the photo was take; Small description about the picture; what is the category that you want to submit you picture (1- PolarPeople in action; 2- PolarPeople at home; 3- PolarPeople & wildlife)

  2.4. Each participant can submit up to two (2) pictures.

  2.5. Pictures has to be in JPEG format and without any watermark that will identify the photographer.

  2.6. Digital manipulation that distorts the reality of the images will not be allowed. Only basic enhancements such as sharpening, contrast adjustment, or simple cropping will be allowed.

  2.7. The file name for each image should be clearly labelled with the participant's name

  2.8. The submission deadline is 22th of March.

  2.9. The organization reserves the right to reject images with incomplete details or that doesn’t respect the theme of the competition.

• 3. Copyrights and Intellectual Property

  3.1. Each Image submitted must be original and unpublished for commercial purposes.

  3.2. The participant shall retain the copyright to the picture entered for the competition.

  3.3. By submitting a picture for the competition, the participant will be regarded as having accepted and agreed to be bound by the rules and regulations of the competition and granted the organiser, APECS, royalty-free permissions to use the picture(s) for promotional or educational purposes (e.g. website, flyers, postcards). APECS will credit the author for any use of the pictures.

  3.4. People featured in the picture must also accept and agree with the rules and regulations of this competition. It is the entire responsibility of the participants in the competition to inform and to get the permissions of all the people photographed in the submitted pictures.

• 4. Judging and Results

  4.1. The pictures will be uploaded, by the organiser, to the APECS website, where a public online voting poll will be held, during the polar week (23th to 26th of March 2017).

  4.2. The picture with most votes in each category will be the winner.

  4.3. Each participant can only win one category. In the case that a participant has the most votes in more than one category, the second participant with most votes will be the winner in one of the categories.

  4.4. Results of the competition will be posted on the APECS website and the winners will also be notified via email at the end of the Polar week (26th March 2017)

• 5. Prizes

  5.1. APECS will award a prize to the first place winner of each category.

  5.2. The winner of each category will win a prize of €100 (Hundred euros). These funds can be only used towards travel costs to a polar or cryosphere related conference of your choice within 1 year of the date of the award.

  5.3 After the release of results the winners will be contacted by the APECS International Directorate Office with instructions for claiming the prize

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2	Sinan Yirmibesoglu	ITU Polar Research Center (PolReC)	teamwork	Date: 22.03.2017 Location: Antarctic Peninsula Description: Scientists of Turkish Antarctic Expedition were studying ecotoxicology and geodesy They were reaching to shore with zodiac boat while some of them taking photos with unique animals.			View
5	Steven Franke	Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research	teamwork	A 14 month wintering in Antarctica can become boring very quickly. In order to mix it up and push our team spirit, I pulled our colleague to his air chemistry observatory (two times 1.5 kilometer), it was the only day, he didn't have to walk there. The picture was taken on March 23rd 2016, the birthday of my colleague.			View
8	Giuseppe Suaria	CNR-ISMAR (Institute of Marine Science - Italian Research Council)	teamwork	Date: March 4th, 2017 Location: St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia. Description: St. Andrews Bay in South Georgia is home to the largest King Penguin's (Aptenodytes patagonicus) colony in the world. It is estimated that between 100 and 300 thousands penguins breed in this noisy and crowded colony that looks out on the surrounding hills, while great skuas are patrolling from above. In this picture, researchers are collecting sand cores among the prying eyes of a curious penguin. The sand samples will be analysed to study microplastic pollution on Antarctic and sub-antarctic beaches, an activity which was part of a much wider project about plastic pollution around Antarctica, carried out during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition in 2016/2017. The research vessel "Akademik Tryoshnikov" is at anchor in the background.			View
12	Sasha Leidman	Rutgers University	teamwork	Taken in 2014 of my research team hiking up Observation Hill with McMurdo Station in the background on a stormy spring day.			View
13	Sasha Leidman	Rutgers University	teamwork	Taken in 2014 at Lake Joyce in the McMurdo Dry Valleys as my research team walks back to camp after a way of drilling of microbial samples in the lake.			View
25	Maria Monteiro	School of Science, University of Waikato	teamwork	December 2016, Lake Vanda in Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys Sampling soil and microbial mats at Lake Vanda, Wright Valley			View
26	Tobias Staal	University of Tasmania	teamwork	Picture taken November 2016 in Windmills Islands, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica. "When drilling for lake sediment cores it really helps to be three: One holding, one pressing and one cheering and taking pictures. "			View
28	George Hademenos	Richardson High School	teamwork	I took this photo on Wednesday, November 22, 2017 while Carol was atop the tower completing instrument installation on an Automatic Weather Station at Phoenix Airfield.			View
31	Neelu Singh	NCAOR, Goa	teamwork	Taken during 28th Indian Antarctic Expedition in the year of 2009. This picture was clicked when the installation of the windmill was going on in Larsemann Hills. This picture showing the glimpse of group efforts of Indian scientists.			View
32	Christopher Jones	FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town	teamwork	An incubating Northern Giant Petrel surrounded by five seabird field researchers on Marion Island. Northern Giant Petrel prefer nesting next to lava outcrops that shield them from prevailing winds. This means that surveying the breeding population is easier with good teamwork as one needs to look behind every lava outcrop within their nesting habitat in order to complete a census.			View
34	Marie McLane		teamwork	"West Antarctic Recovery" was taken at Pine Island Glacier on November 24, 2014 and shows two members of our 4 person team after digging out the front of a buried Tucker Snowcat.			View
35	Marie McLane		teamwork	"West Antarctic Traverse" was taken in December 2014 at the mid-point between Byrd field camp and WAIS Divide field camp in West Antarctica.			View
37	Andrea Herbert	Gateway Antarctica/University of Canterbury	teamwork	The picture was taken during the Postgraduate Certificate of Antarctic Studies (PCAS) at our camp near Scott Base in late December 2016. Student teams are doing work in snow pits that we had dug during the morning. We measured snow fall and snow crystal composition as part of an introduction into glaciology.			View
38	Andrea Herbert	Gateway Antarctica/University of Canterbury	teamwork	The picture was taken during the Postgraduate Certificate of Antarctic Studies (PCAS) at our camp near Scott Base in late December 2016. Student teams are doing work in snow pits that we had dug during the morning. We measured snow fall and snow crystal composition as part of an introduction into glaciology.			View
39	Ursula Rack	Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury	teamwork	The photo was taken on 23 December 2015 at the PCAS field course (Postgraduate Certificate of Antarctic Studies). We just finished the work on listening to seals under water. The students on the picture were bringing back the equipment to the meeting point on the ice.			View
41	Rakesh Rao	NCAOR/Enscitec Production	teamwork	December 2012, Near Maitri Station, Antarctica Description: Team of Geologist during geological survey near the Indian Research station, Maitri, taking time off to appreciate the amazing, Vast and cold Landscape on Antarctica.			View
43	Roseline C. Thakur	National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa	teamwork	The pic was taken by me from the bridge of Ivan Papanin which was embarked at the ice shelf of East Antarctica which is around 100km from the second Indian station Maitri. The pic was taken during the summer (March) of 2014. Description:Arduous teamwork of Indian Scientists and Logistic personnel on the ice shelf of east Antarctica to unload the cargo on the ice shelf and transport the necessary ration, fuel and scientific equipment to the permanent Indian base, Maitri, in vehicle convoys. The excellent coordination and hard work of the team ensures the sustenance of the Station and ensures the smooth functioning of the scientific activities throughout the harsh winter of this frozen continent.			View
46	Daleen Koch	Australian Antarctic Division	teamwork	Davis Station, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica on 19 November 2017 Measuring the sea ice thickness outside Davis Station			View
47	Nadya Yanakieva	APECS Bulgaria	teamwork	Both pictures are made during the last antarctic season (2016-2017) on the Perunika glacier, near Bulgarian Antarctic Base, Livinston island, Antarctica and show the process of mapping this area			View
48	Nadya Yanakieva	APECS Bulgaria	teamwork	Both pictures are made during the last antarctic season (2016-2017) on the Perunika glacier, near Bulgarian Antarctic Base, Livinston island, Antarctica and show the process of mapping this area			View
49	Manuel Novillo	Instituto Antártico Argentino. MACN-CONICET	teamwork	12 st of December 2016, Argentinian Antarctic Station "Carlini" (Formerly known as "Jubany") - Potter Cove, Isla 25 de Mayo/King George Island, South Shetland Islands. The Argentian Antarctic Ichthyology Research Group on a 15 minutes ride on rubber boats towards the sampling area. Meanwhile, snow, wind and funny conversations joined us in the road.			View
51	Eugenia Moreira	Instituto Antártico Argentino	teamwork	January 2009, Argentinian Antarctic Station "Carlini" (Formerly known as "Jubany") - Potter Cove, Isla 25 de Mayo/King George Island, South Shetland Islands. The Argentian Antarctic Ichthyology Research Group fishing from rubber boats on the sampling area. It was midnight and we had the company of a shining moon, and the Cerro Tres Hermanos (Three Brother Hill).			View