Challenge Winner!

*CHALLENGE WINNER FOR OUR MARCH 2011 CHALLENGE *

This news from RedBubble:  'Congratulations, you won the challenge in Imperfect Kaleidoscopes Group!'  This is both exciting and rewarding.  I will also be receiving a $20 voucher for this image being selected as the winner.  This is the image that was chosen for the challenge, 'Golden Eye', 
derived from this image ----->

FYI - Dr. Paul E. Hargraves

About Dr. Paul E. Hargraves:

After a multi-decadal career at the Graduate School of Oceanography of the University of Rhode Island, Dr. Paul Hargraves is now an Affiliated Research Professor in Harbor Branch's Center for Marine Ecosystem Health.  His research interests focus on the biodiversity, systematics, ultrastructure, and life cycles of microscopic life in aquatic environments, and his >100 publications include research on fresh water, coastal, and oceanic environments from the North Atlantic to the Antarctic, from the Peruvian Amazon to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, from the Indian River Lagoon to 50-million year-old fossils.

During his career, Dr. Hargraves has received research funding totaling several million dollars from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Agency, the National Sea Grant program, and several private organizations.  He has been a visiting professor at the National University of Costa Rica and at the University of Salzburg, Austria, served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography, and held adjunct positions at several other universities.  His former students, including 12 Ph.D. and 20 M.S. recipients, have gone on to successful careers in academia, industry, and government, and he has served on the thesis committees of over 50 additional graduate students.  He attributes his early and lifelong interest in the marine environment to many summers spent digging in the mud on Cape Cod.

Environmental Graffiti

 A very nice writer, named Michele Collett, from Canada, has just written an article about the diatoms and dinoflagellates that I have colorized, and my associate, Dr. Paul E. Hargraves.

The online publication is called Environmental Graffiti, originating in England. http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-diatoms-art.  I think the site is very interesting and covers  a variety of topics that concern the environment and science in a very informative way.