2008 BioScapes Winners
Winner
Mr. Spike Walker
Penkridge, Staffordshire, UK
Specimen: "Fairy Fly" Wasp
Technique: Rheinberg Illumination
Runners Up
2nd Place
Mr. Thomas Shearer
Duluth, MN, USA
Specimen: Agatized Petrified Wood
Technique: Polarized Light
3rd Place
Dr. Stephen S. Nagy
Helena, MT, USA
Specimen: Actinoptychus heliopelta
Technique: Jamin-Lebedeff Interference Con
4th Place
Dr. Albert Pan
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
Specimen: Larval "Brainbow" Zebrafish
Technique: Fluorescence
5th Place
Dr. Shirley Owens
Flushing, MI, USA
Specimen: Silphium perfoliatum
Technique: Laser Scanning Confocal
6th Place
Mr. David Walker
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK
Specimen: Snail Radula
Technique: Polarized Light
7th Place
Dr. Neal Melvin
Dallas, TX, USA
Specimen: Adult Mouse Hippocampus
Technique: Fluorescence
8th Place
Mr. Gerd A. Günther
Dusseldorf, NRW, Germany
Specimen: Trichodina pediculus
Technique: Differential Interference Contrast
9th Place
Mr. Charles Krebs
Issaquah, WA, USA
Specimen: Chrysochroa fulgens (Jewel Beetle)
Technique: Stereomicroscopy
10th Place
Dr. Petr Znachor
Institute of Hydrobiology
Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
Specimen: "Star-like" Colonial Diatom
Technique: Fluorescence