Wikipedia:Wiki Science Competition 2017 in the United States/Full results

This gallery contains the national finalists of the 2017 Wiki Science Competition in the United States. The jury selected 25 finalists across five categories from 1,180 submissions. These images represented the United States at the international level. For more information see the main results page.

Additional prizes include:
U.S. Jury's Choice Award: the top five images selected by the U.S. jury
     International runners-up: images selected as runners-up for the top prize for each category

General

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  International runner-up

  

  U.S. Jury's Choice Award

  Total Solar Eclipse by Michael S Adler. This image of the 2017 solar eclipse from outside Crowheart, Wyoming was taken using exposure bracketing in seven steps from from 1/2 to 1/8000 seconds.
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  U.S. Jury's Choice Award

  Mantis Fly by Ron Sterling. A very close black-and-white film macrophotograph of a live Mantisfly found in the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona in August 1963.
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  Andromeda Galaxy by Michael S Adler. This image of the Andromeda Galaxy includes 99 10-minute exposures for a total of 16.5 hours of imaging.
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  First Breath by Matt Burtchaell. The first breath of a child being born by Caesarean section.
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  Banana Slug and Sword Fern of Damocles by Msuneson. A banana slug in a precarious position hanging off the tip of a sword fern in Patrick's Point State Park, California.

People in science

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  Lab Noir by DuckLionDog. As the sun sets on a forgotten campus on the ragged edge of a dirty town, a lone molecular ecologist prepares to find out just how dirty it really is.
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  Ice Core Researchers in Greenland by Helle Astrid Kjær. Ice core researchers drilling at the East Greenland Ice-Core Project site.
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  Ice Core Researchers in Greenland by Helle Astrid Kjær. Ice core researchers drilling at the East Greenland Ice-Core Project site.
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  Sample Collection Panoramic by HSchiebel121. Scientist Francesco Peri collects a sediment core in a New England salt marsh during autumn.
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  Weary But Hopeful by Nels2235. 67 days after Hurricane Maria hit his rural community in Puerto Rico, high school junior Nelson Badillo hopes to finish his robot in time to reach the U.S. one more time. Everything is a challenge this year.

Microscopy

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  International runner-up

  

  U.S. Jury's Choice Award

  Beautiful... But Deadly by BernbaumJG. A colorized scanning electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles (green), found both as extracellular particles and budding particles from a chronically-infected African green monkey kidney cell (blue), at 20,000x magnification.
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  U.S. Jury's Choice Award

  The Galaxy Within by Dustin Johnsen. A 10x image of cultured mouse cortical neurons and astrocytes in cell culture. Neurons are stained red (MAP2 protein), while astrocytes are stained green (GFAP). As the presumed seat of consciousness, the infinity of questions still surrounding the brain are as nebulous as those surrounding our infinite universe. We are but stars in the end; and in the beginning.
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  Three Species of Pollen Grains by Asja Radja. A scanning electron micrograph of false-colored Passiflora (passion vine), Spathiphyllum (peace lily), and Aster (daisy) pollen. The intraspecific pattern stability and interspecific pattern variation may be part of a broader class of biological patterns that result from first-order phase transitions on the surfaces of spherical cells.
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  Birefringent Water Ice by Tom Wagner. A thin layer of water ice that is two inches across between crossed polarizing filters. Bubbles are visible from air that came out of solution as the water froze.
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  Body Louse by Noizyboy1961. A fresh, unstained, whole mounted specimen of body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus), obtained from a post-doctoral fellow's jacket. This phase contrast image reveals the trabeculae.

Non-photographic images

• Cuttlefish Grabbing Shrimp with Tentacles by Rhinopias. Slow motion video of a flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi) grabbing a grass shrimp (Palaemonetes sp.) with its feeding tentacles at the Museum of Science in Miami in November 2017.
• Paddlefish 5-Day Embryo To Hatching by Betty Wills. An American paddlefish embryo's development from the first appearance of notochord to the larval stage.
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  Birth of a Multi-Nucleated Cell by Erin Rod. Fluorescent proteins visualize the cell cycle progression. IFP2.0-hGem(1/110) fluorescence (green) highlights the S, G₂, and M phases, while smURFP-hCdtI(30/120) fluorescence (orange) highlights the G₀ and G₁ phases.
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  Earthquakes in the Cascadia Subduction Zone by Davezelenka. Earthquakes are displayed in a cross section from the Olympic Mountains east to Seattle and south to Mount Rainer in the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
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  Green Fluorescent Protein Structure by Erin Rod. This video shows a rotating ribbon diagram of green fluorescent protein with the chromophore in yellow.

Image sets

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  U.S. Jury's Choice Award

  Evolution of a Tornado by Jason Weingart. This image was created from eight images shot in sequence as a tornado formed north of Minneola, Kansas on May 24, 2016. This prolific supercell went on to produce at least 12 tornadoes, and at times had two and even three tornadoes on the ground at once.

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  Preparing samples for NMR
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  Scientist at the Microscope
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  Teaching Neuroscience
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  Dissecting Neurons
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  Smiling at the Lab Bench
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  Zebrafish
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  Culture Plates
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  Lab Notebook
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  Love what you do

Scientists at Work by Katherine Stember. Members of a biology laboratory carry out research and
education activities.

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  Altiplano
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  Large Rock Formation near Salar de Tare
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  Salar de Tare
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  Vincuna & Lagunas Miscanti
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  Piedras Rojas
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  Piedras Rojas
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  Near Piedras Rojas
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  A Horse Along the Carretera Austral
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  Marble Caves
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  Marble Caves
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  Marble Caves
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  Leones Glacier Lake

Views of the Atacama Desert and Patagonia by Wescottm. Images of several locations in the Atacama Desert and Patagonia in Chile, including
Altiplano, Salar de Tara, Piedras Rojas, and the Marble Caves of General Carrera Lake.

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  Vitamin C Fans
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  Vitamin C Molten Crystal
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  Vitamin C Wheel
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  Wavy Collagen
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  Wavy Collagen
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  Scar Collagen
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  Sirius Red
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  Muscle

Microscope Images with Polarized Light by PW31. This image set illustrates how polarized light microscopy
can be used to create colorful images, analyze tissue structure, and produce microscopic landscapes.

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  Willemite in Natural and Ultraviolet Light by Jud McCranie. These images show willemite in natural light, and how it fluoresces in ultraviolet light. The rock is from Franklin, New Jersey, and was on display at the Gem and Mineral Museum in Franklin, North Carolina.