Study Subject - First Place
Photographer - Warren Wong
An image of a male Leptoplina japonica parasitoid that is facing its species host, the female spotted-wing drosphila (Drosphilia suzukii), on top of a blueberry.

Study Subjects - Second Place
Photographer - John Reynolds
I found this moss on a split rail fence, and was able to use the warm afternoon sunlight instead of needing a flash.

Study Subject - Third Place
Photographer - Kris Cu
A river otter peers out of a frozen lake. One of the many local residents we encountered during my co-op term at the Summerland Research and Development Centre.

Life Under the Lens - First Place
Photographer - Taegan McFarlane
A microscope photo I took a couple of years ago in my first semester at SFU. It's looking at the wing muscle of a dronefly under polarized light. I believe the structures are tracheoles, part of the respiratory system. To the best of my knowledge, the vibrancy of the images is due to the birefringent properties of collagen.

Life Under the Lens - Second Place
Photographer - Aaron Dhanda
HeLa cells infected with pathogenic Listeria monocytogenes showing the bacteria spreading from cell-to-cell. The sample was stained with phalloidin to label filamentous actin (Green), DAPI to label the DNA in the host cell nuclei as well as the bacteria (Blue), and transfected with CD147 (Magenta) in the host cell initiating the bacterial spreading event.

Life Under the Lens - Third Place
Photographer - Abigail Feresten
The green and red lines are axons. In healthy worms, all the lines are very straight and overlapping, so that the axons can exchange information. This worm's axons do not do this, because of the mutations I gave it. This individual's AVG axon has wandered away from the other axons, but it came back.

Science in Action - First Place
Photographer - Rachel Munger
Collecting seagrass and sediment samples along a transect at one of my study sites in Rock Sound, Bahamas.

Science in Action - Second Place
Photographer - Sherry Young
"Going to the Bathroom" she said. In the high mountains of Central Asia, this aspect of field work sometimes requires a long walk before getting some privacy.

Science in Action - Third Place
Photographer - Tara Anne Mulloy
Nutrient addition with and without sheep grazing in eroded area in Icelandic highlands. They are from the field season for my master's project looking at nutrient addition and sheep grazing in the highlands of Iceland.

Wild Card - First Place
Photographer - Bernie Roitberg
California Cactus

Wild Card - Second Place
Photographer - Rolf Mathewes
Attached is my favourite image of a fossil Florissantia quilchenensis flower from Quilchena B.C. It has been published in a book and a paper, but it is special because I discovered this species as part of my BSc graduation project in 1969 with Robert Brooke (deceased) who supervised my 4th year research at SFU, so it is special to me. The Quilchena fossil beds are now known to be 53 million years old (Early Eocene).

Wild Card - Third Place
Photographer - Samantha Sherman
A feather star curls one of its arms at night, taken in Malaysia.