Winners of First-Ever Science and Engineering
Visualization Challenge Announced
Photography First Place Winner: Mongolian Frost Rings, by Dee Breger
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The National Science Foundation and
the journal Science today announced the winners of
the inaugural Science and Engineering
Visualization Challenge.
The winning entries are featured in today's issue
of Science and in the journal's electronic edition,
Science Online.
"Science commends all of the winners of the first
Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge,"
said Monica M. Bradford, Executive Editor of
Science. "The magnificence of scientific discovery
is revealed in the winning visualizations. Each
work represents an important contribution toward
helping to promote public engagement in the
scientific concepts that are at the core of modern
life."
Two hundred ninety seven entries qualified for
judging. A panel of distinguished science
communicators judged the entries on technical
accuracy, creativity, innovation, and
communication impact.
The 2003 Science and Engineering Visualization
Challenge winners are:
Active and/or Multimedia Category
Winner — "Auditory Transduction Animation" by
Brandon Pletsch, Medical College of Georgia.
Medical illustrator Petsch's animation takes
viewers into and through a symphonic journey of
the human ear.
Runner-up — "Volume Visualization of the Orion
Nebulae" by David Nadeau, University of California
- San Diego (Contributors: Jon Genetti, Carter
Emmart). A three-dimensional animation of the
1,500 light years distant Orion Nebulae created by
a team from the San Diego Supercomputing Center
and New York's American Museum of Natural History
from real astronomical data and imagery.
Third place — "Milankovitch Cycle" by Dennis Tasa,
Tasa Graphic Arts, Inc., Taos, N.M. (Contributor:
Frank Pazzaglia). Tasa's instructional tool
combines the three major portions of the
Milankovitch cycles with interactivity to teach
students about natural climate variables.
Honorable mention — "The Creation of Earth" by
Carter Emmart, American Museum of Natural History,
New York (Contributors: Anthony Braun, Mordecai-
Mark MacLow, James Sweitzer, Edmond Mathez,
Michael Novacek & Neil deGrasse Tyson). Emmart
and team built this three-dimensional modeling of
the possible formation of the universe. It is
narrated by actor Harrison Ford.
Photographs Category
Winner — "Mongolian Frost Rings" by Dee Breger,
SEM/EDX Facility, Palisades, N.Y. Breger's
colorized photograph of a Siberian pine tree core
sample from Mongolia, taken with a scanning
electron microscope, told the tale of a
catastrophic climate change linked to a massive
volcanic eruption.
Runner-up — "Black Sea Pyrite" by Dee Breger,
SEM/EDX Facility, Palisades, N.Y. Breger captured
the forming of a tiny cluster of pyrite crystals
inside a microplankton found in the oxigen-free
sediment of the Black Sea. The selectively
colorized image was taken using a scanning
electron microscope.
Third place — No award.
Honorable mention — "Buckling of a Multi-Wall
Nanotube" by Michael Stadermann, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. (Contributors:
Mike Falvo, Sean Washburn, and Richard Superfine).
A novel technique called "conductance-imaging
atomic force microscopy" was used by Stadermann to
photograph a carbon nanotube atop a silicon
surface at the atomic level.
Illustrations Category
Winner — "Innolab 3D File Manager" by Adam
Miezianko, Boston University, Brookline, Mass.
(Contributors: Kristopher Rambish, Karen Fung &
Zaunura Pingkan). Miezianko illustrates the
organization of computer contents in a unique
arrangement reminiscent of a Ferris wheel.
Runner-up — "Macrophage and Bacterium 2,000,000x"
by David Goodsell, The Scripps Research Institute,
LaJolla, Calif. Goodsell's unique multi-canvas
watercolor interpretation of an immune system cell
destroying a bacterium in the bloodstream.
Third place — No award.
Honorable mention — "Cytokines in Hematopoiesis
and Development poster" by Erin Pascoe, R&D
Systems, Inc., Minneapolis (Contributors: Jennifer
Harrington, Daphne Orlando, and Gregg Hickey).
Embryonic hematopoiesis and the generation of
hematopoietic stem cells as illustrated by
Harrington, Orlando and Hickey.
For more information:
The journal Science Online slide show:
www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/vis2003/
Science articles:
www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/301/5639/1472a
NSF's SEVC site:
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/events/sevc/start.htm
11 September 2003
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