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