PSM Announces Photo Contest Winners!
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EmailOverwhelming response to photo contest makes decisions difficult!
With great honor and excitement we present the winners of the first ever PSM Photo Contest. We had a huge response to our call for entries, and the decision was difficult. But ultimately we narrowed it down to one best photo per category. NOW they are printed on canvas and posted in the PSM Conference Room! Enjoy!
· Crops- Dechun Wang (fac) & Randy Laurenz (staff)- Two soybean varieties with different leaf color planted by Tom Siler as the Spartan logo using precision planting
· Microscopy- Marc Friedman (grad student Bonito Lab) - This laser ablation image shows copper (Cu) uptake by Reindeer lichen (Cladonia ragniferina) collected in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The lichen with higher Cu came from mine tailings known as, “Stamp Sands.” The lower Cu concentration lichen was collected from an uncontaminated reference site.
· Plant Pathology- Austin McCoy (staff)- Gymnosporangium with telial horns
· Soils- Mason Rutgers (grad student )- Soil samples from Oklahoma demonstrating soil color variability
· Turf- Jesse Sholl (staff)- Hancock Turfgrass Research Center
· Weeds- Erin Hill (fac)- Teasel (Dipsacus spp.) backlit by the Aurora Borealis in Sleepy Hollow State Park in October 2024
· Miscellaneous- Sarah Alvarez Rodriguez (visiting scholar) - Tongue warning
The photos can be viewed at this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Z0tEVXudr1TA8qXJt3ITWH21Cm_UlWh1?usp=sharing
