Week 1
December 4
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Please provie a score for each category, determine if the image ranks as "Yes", "No", "Hold for Now", and return your completed Excel scoresheet to darrylw@stanford.edu, copying cpbvk@juno.com by Wednesday December 8, The second set of images will be sent Saturday December 11, with a return date no later than December 17th, and so on through the month of December. The first week of January we'll determine the finalists. This will allow only three weeks to confer with researchers, and have the artists review their entries, so there's virtually no wiggle room. Thank you very much for your participation on the jury, and good luck. I would ask that Barbara send me today the names and email addressed of all AAAS jurists.


 
 
 

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Category: LAND AND OCEANS

Topic: 101. Global and Local Responses to the Nitrogen Challenge

[Jurists--the link is: (from AAAS summary) "reactive nitrogen is an essential resource" that has costs and benefits...and, as this painting suggests, there are many routes for nutrient cyclying in Borneo's dwarf forests, known as “kerangas".]

 
 
 
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Category: EMERGING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Topic: 45. Growth and Form in Mathematics, Physics and Biology

[Jurists-- the link is: (from AAAS summary) "the role of physical laws [are] embodied mathematically as the fundamental determinant of structure and form of organisms" (e.g.,Darcy Thompson, On Growth and Form) ...here, the arist notes that her image shows how the form of many living creatures can be emulated through fluid dynamics.]



 
 
 
 

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Category: SUSTAINABILITY

Topic: 150. Resource Use and Ecological Resilience in a Tropical Socio-Ecological System

[Jurists-- the link is: (from AAAS summary) "many factors influence whether resource-use patterns will be sustainable" ... Here, the artist portrays long-lived Galapagos giant tortoises whose diet has been severely simplified by the addition of a non-native grass.]

 
 
 
 

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