Starry-Eyed Research
The winner of the “research in action” category, this photo taken by Jeferson Ribeiro Amaral from Cornell University shows researchers in Brazil conducting fieldwork on local frog populations amidst a thunderstorm. The photo is all the more poignant because the researchers were working during the early days of the covid-19 pandemic, which has hit Brazil especially hard.
“The researchers in this image are representative of so many others who carried on working throughout the covid-19 pandemic,” said Amaral. “This image demonstrates their strength and dedication to understanding our world as they carry out their work despite thunderstorms and a global pandemic.”
