For the second year there will be a Photo Competition at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011. The finalists are below. To vote in the competition visit The Crystal Lounge, on the Green Level, First Floor of the ACV. In The Crystal Lounge you can view posters of the images and vote at the electronic voting terminals. The winner will be announced in the Crystal Lounge on Friday lunchtime.
Water Angel:A “water angel” seems to appear in the upper part of the Trift Glacier Lake in the Swiss Alps.
A tropical palm tree hit by heavy storm.
The Tempest: Measuring the aurora. This picture was taken while doing an optical/radar coordinated campaign in Svalbard, Norway, near the settlement of Longyearbyen.
Soil Forest: The geological landscape located in Yunnan Province, China is called either the ‘Earth Forest’ or ‘Soil Forest’ and formed by geological movement and soil erosion one or two million years ago.
Oasis Valley
Strong eruption of Karymsky volcano at July 13, 2004, Kamchatka
Geysir (from which the English word, geyser, is derived) in the Haukadalur valley, Iceland. The photograph was taken just before the geyser ‘blew’; you can see the air bubbles rushing towards the surface within the mounting dome of water.
Flow: Folded Cretaceous Calcarenite layers.
Carboniferous arachnid Eophrynus prestvicii: A 3D reconstruction of the 312 million year old arachnid Eophrynus prestvicii, from a CT scan of the fossil. Arachnids such as this – members of the Trigonotarbida – were amongst the first terrestrial predators.
