2003 Contest Winners

Photography Contest

Tengar Caldera at Mt. Semeru in Indonesia.
ESW 2003 Contest Photography Winner (Ben Kennedy)

Ben Kennedy of McGill University is this year’s winner of the Earth Science Week photography contest. Ben’s photograph is of the Tengar Caldera and Mt. Semeru in Indonesia.

This year’s theme is “Living on a Restless Planet,” which will correspond with the theme for next year’s Earth Science Week. Photos should capture some aspect of natural hazards at any time scale or size. The winning photo will be used in the 2004 Earth Science Week Logo.

Finalists

Flooded Neighborhood.
ESW 2003 Contest Photography Finalist (Matthew Crabtree)

Geyser.
ESW 2003 Contest Photography Finalist (Matt Dinkle)

Pompeii with Vesuvius in the Background.
ESW 2003 Contest Photography Finalist (Mary Leech)

Torres del Paine National Park.
ESW 2003 Contest Photography Finalist (Betsy Mason)

Ocean Waves.
ESW 2003 Contest Photography Finalist (Rhonda Spidell)

Fallen Tree.
ESW 2003 Contest Photography Finalist (Jordan Strausbaugh)

Karymsky Volcano; Kamchatka, Russia.
ESW 2003 Contest Photography Finalist (Lois Wardell)

Powerful Water.
ESW 2003 Contest Photography Finalist (Nicole C. Zaunar)

Visual Art Contest

Keeping an Eye on Our Earth.
ESW 2003 Contest Visual Art Winner (Christina Gill)

Congratulations go out to Christina Gill of Herndon, Virginia! Her poster, Keeping an Eye on Our Earth, is this year’s visual arts contest winner.

The visual arts contest theme is “Earth Science in Your World”. This theme is designed to get students thinking about how Earth science affects their everyday lives.

Essay Contest

Who is a Volcanologist and what do they do?

Does it ever make your brain corrupt
Just wondering how a volcano erupts.

Volcanologists study this process
So you don’t have to guess.

First, …

Jessica Taylor

Jessica Taylor of Cary, North Carolina is the winner of this year’s essay contest. Click on the excerpt to read her poem on volcanologists and what they do.

The topic of the essay is “Your Career as an Earth Scientist.” Students in grades 5-12 can write about a career they might like to have as a geoscientist. Essays can be either fiction or nonfiction and should be no more than 500 words in length.

The views and assertions presented in essays are neither endorsed by nor reflect the positions the American Geosciences Institute.

Finalists

My Life as a Geoscientist

A paleoecologist tells her story

You may wonder what the purpose of a paleoecologist is. You might be asking why people like me would devote their lives to studying and …

My Career as an Earth Scientist

Being an Earth Science Teacher at Bay Shore Middle School is such a great career. Not only do I get to stay current with all the changes and discoveries made in this …

Hurricane Hunters

from the eyes, it read. It was my first flight into a hurricane as a meteorologist. I was thoroughly trained and knew almost everything you could know about hurricanes. The plane was …

The Science of Geophysicists

Today had been one of the most stressful days of Andrea’s life. She was a senior in college and was ready to get a job and move on, she hoped that this project would …

Indiana Jones, Professor Gierke, and Me

Indiana Jones slowly trudged across the barren desert. His canteen dangled, dry and dusty, at his side. Thousands of miles away, Professor Gierke slowly trudged …

Contest winners from other years