CODES 2019 Christmas photo competition results
The 2019 competition saw 93 entries across ten categories (categories changed from the inaugural competition in 2018).
The winners in each category for 2019 were:
Program 1: Ore deposits and mineral exploration
Lejun Zhang:
‘Kyle Eastman at Rincones de Araya, Argentina.' (entered by Kyle Eastman)
Program 2: Geometallurgy, geoenvironment and mining
Nathaly Guerrero:
‘David Cooke taking a water sample from the shoreline of King River Delta in Macquarie Harbour.’
Program 3: Sedimentation, tectonics and Earth evolution
Peter McGoldrick:
'Fly Geyser, near Gerlach NW Nevada. These travertine mounds and terraces are a little over 50 years old. They have grown at the site of an abandoned water-well drilled into heated bicarbonate-charged groundwater in the early 1960s.'
Program 4: Magmatic and volcanic processes
Christopher Leslie:
‘Beautiful stop for lunch looking out towards Volcan San Pedro, Northern Chile.'
Program 5: Analytical research
James Tolley:
‘Textural variation in magnetite.' (Leonid said of this image: ‘It’s a beautiful texture, I must admit’.)
Program 6: Geophysics and computational geosciences
Javier Merrill:
‘‘Where are the rocks!?’ Non-human-friendly output from textural analysis. Hobart, February 2019.’
Training and education
Angela Escolme:
‘Lejun Zhang and Takeshy Coaquira getting up close with Resolution Cu-Mo porphyry deposit, Arizona, August 2019.’
Industry engagement
Shaun Barker:
‘Dave Cooke with geologists from Glencore and the Geological Survey of Queensland inspecting rocks surrounding the Mary Kathleen Uranium deposit, Northwest Queensland.’
Outreach
Izzy von Lichtan:
‘Izzy at TMAG for one of the dinosaur discovery days, teaching the public (especially children) about the fossils of Hobart, and geology in general.’
Social
Tom Schaap:
‘Martin Jutzeler and Karin Orth dressed as rock stars during new year's celebrations on the RV Investigator, somewhere in the Tasman Sea.’
