Photo competition
At NAC there will be a photo competition. Every participant in NAC 2022 can submit one photo on any theme related to the broad field of earth sciences. To submit a photo for the competition, one must be registered for NAC 2022 (see terms and conditions). Submitted photos will be exhibited at the conference and are shown below (click on a photo to see more information).
Autumn scenery of Kanas Lake hidden in the mist
The deep primeval forest set off the tranquil lake water in fall in Kanas. The lake with turquoise color is located in a valley in Altai Mountains, the mountain is covered with dense alpine forests of spruce, birch, elm, and Siberian larch, Breath-taking view of Kanas Lake in Xinjiang captured in morning fog.
Credit: Caixia Wei | When: 2020/10/1 | Where: Kanas Lake, Xinjiang, China
The divergent boundary between the Eurasian plate and the North American plate
The landscape is wild and desolate but hauntingly beautiful. The serene magnificence of the surroundings belies an astonishing fact - it exists as a result of massive, geological trauma.
This is one of the few places above sea level where you can see with your own eyes what happens when two major tectonic plates (North-Atlantic to the left and Euroasian to the right) drift away from each other. In fact, Iceland owes its very existence to the tectonic processes which have played out along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge for millions of years.
Credit: Borjana Bogatinoska | When: 12/3/2022 | Where: Thingvellir National Park, Iceland
Golden hair lichen
Teloschistes flavicans known as golden hair lichen growing on the scorched trees at the top of extinct tuff cone of Koko Head crater in O‘ahu Island.
Credit: Danica Mitrovic | When: 18.07.2022 | Where: Koko Head crater, O‘ahu (Hawaiʻi).
Colors of Soil, Mountains and Sky
I made it using my phone during a trip with my wife.
Credit: Kai Li | When: 2017 | Where: Gansu, China
Playing hide & seek
Nudibranch taken in Águilas, Murcia, Spain
Credit: Virginia Sánchez Barranco | When: 19 August 2021 | Where: Águilas, Murcia, Spain
An aero fieldwork photo
This is an aero fieldwork photo taken by a drone in Murcia, southeast of Spain. It presents two different landscapes: a hilly landscape with a sparse vegetation pattern, which seems common in an arid area, and a relatively flat landscape with dense vegetation. The process causing this difference might be interesting to explore. We think this photo would impress reviewers with this contrasting beauty.
Credit: Xia Meng, Thijs de Boer, Erik Cammeraat and Sascha Nijdam (with the support from the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics) | When: 12 October 2021 | Where: Murcia, Spain
Witness of erosion
Standing on the top of the Southern Carpathians, this ‘petrified face’ looks back to geological past. It is called the Sphinx, however, unlike its grand relatives in Egypt, it is purely formed by nature. Millennial wind erosion scarved this and other fascinating forms into the flysch of the Bucegi Mountains.
Credit: Péter Garamszegi | When: 2016 | Where: Bucegi Mountains, Romania.
Remarkable rock and balloons in Cappadocia Turkey
Cappadocia is famous for its fairytale scenery, cave dwellings, remarkable rock formations and the hundreds of hot air balloons that soar in the sky during sunrise each morning. I recorded this beautiful view of the hot air balloons.
Credit: Caixia Wei | When: 2022/4/15 | Where: Cappadocia, Turkey.
Black and white waterfall
Foggy morning at 2000 meters, the mountains turned black and white.
Credit: L. Fuchs | When: Autumn 2021 | Where: Pyrenees, France
Dusty sunset over the Atlantic Ocean
Huge amounts of Saharan dust were blown across the Atlantic Ocean in December 2021, causing the sun to disappear in an orange fog.
Credit: Jan-Berend Stuut | When: 9 December 2021 | Where: In the eastern subtropical Atlantic Ocean, about 150nm offshore the Mauritanian coast, onboard RV Maria S. Merian.
Flow
Avalanche in the Pyrenees.
Credit: L. Fuchs | When: May 2022 | Where: Eylie, France.
Spectacular Sandr
A beautiful glacial outwash plain (sandr) taken in national park Skaftafell. Less than 20 years ago, there would still have been ice visible in this picture.
Credit: Sjoukje de Lange | When: 27/09/2021 | Where: Iceland, Skaftafell.
Arctic coastal erosion
This is Pelly island, one of the most northern islands in the Mackenzie delta. Pelly is very different from all other eroding coasts we have seen that summer, the gigantic blocks which are breaking from the mainland are impressive to witness. Standing near one of these large ice lenses, this captures my whole project.
Credit: Fleur van Crimpen | When: augustus 2021 | Where: Pelly Island, Canadian Beaufort Sea
Orange red sky over the Lago Maggiore due to intense winter smog
A beautiful orange red sky over the Lago Maggiore, Italy, due to heavy winter smog over the Po valley.
Credit: Bert Scheeren | When: January 2008 | Where: Lago Maggiore, Italy.
A fluid perspective
Gently SW dipping ammonite-rich limestone layers of Hauterivian. The outcrop starts on the cliff, continues on both sides of the road, and ends in the Jabron river. This spot, where the river is deeper thanks to this rock formation, is called 'Pierres Plates' by the locals (the 'flat stones') and is quite popular in the summer. There you can often see 5-15 yo wannabe paleontologists, hunting for ammonites and belemnites.
44°09'45.4"N 5°56'12.7"E
44.162609, 5.936867
Credit: Remi Charton | When: 7 August 2021 | Where: Jabron river, near Sisteron, South France
Lenticular clouds
These lenticular clouds appeared over Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, in December 2021 when strong winds from a depression over the Drake Passage pushed the air over the Beagle Channel and the surrounding mountains towards Patagonia.
Credit: Arnoud Apituley | When: December 2021 | Where: Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
NAC 2022 welcomes you back in person on Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 September 2022. Reconnect face to face with colleagues in Van der Valk Hotel, Utrecht.
New registration and abstract submission will be required. Begin your NAC 2022 experience by submitting an abstract not later than Wednesday 11 May 2022, 11:59 h CEST. We can’t wait to see you this September!