The Art of Research: Photo Gallery 2022
The Art of Research photo contest is an opportunity for Queen鈥檚 faculty, students, staff, and alumni to showcase their research, scholarly, and artistic work. The competition is aimed at providing a creative and accessible method of sharing and celebrating the ground-breaking research being done by current and past Queen鈥檚 community members.
The SNO+ Detector
Alex Wright for the SNO+ Collaboration
The SNO+ experiment studies the fundamental properties of neutrinos. The detector consists of an active volume of 780 tonnes of liquid scintillator housed within a 12-metre diameter acrylic vessel that is held in place by ropes and viewed by an array of about 10,000 photomultiplier light detectors. In this image, taken by a camera embedded in the photomultiplier array, the detector is illuminated only by light from the clean room at the top of the vessel neck, producing a beam effect. The SNO+ experiment is currently collecting data, carrying on the work of the Nobel-prize winning Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
Location of photograph:
SNOLAB, Sudbury, Ontario
Affiliation:
Faculty, Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy
Submission Year:
2022
George Konana Collecting Ice
Saskia de Wildt
The Inuit practice an ongoing relationship with the land through camping, hunting, and fishing. As part of the BearWatch project, I explore how such knowledge, accumulated over many generations, and Inuit values can be ethically engaged in a community-based polar bear monitoring program. This picture is taken on one of our trips out on the land around Gjoa Haven during spring 2022. It captures George Konana collecting ice from the lake for tea. He traces ice with the right quality to give his tea a nice 鈥榬eddish, brown鈥� color. At this exact moment, he cracks out a huge piece, enough for a month of tea.
Location of photograph:
Gjoa Haven, Nunavut
Affiliation:
PhD Student, School of Environmental Studies
Submission Year:
2022
The Tiniest Tree of Life
Elahe Alizadeh, PhD
COVID-19, the second pandemic of the current century, is still an ongoing global health emergency. Its complications and mortality are associated with pneumonia and alterations in the pulmonary vasculature. Acquiring 3D images of vascular trees in animal models provide a useful tool to evaluate the effects of COVID-19 in humans. In our research aimed at finding new drugs for COVID-19 under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Archer, vascular trees of a mouse were pressure perfused to maximal dilation with a radio-opaque material (barium). The heart and lungs were fixed and scanned using VECTor4CT scanner. VECTor4CT is the first tri-modality imaging system equipped with an ultra-high-resolution micro-computed tomography (碌CT) scanner at Queen鈥檚 University.
Location of photograph:
Queen's CardioPulmonary Unit (QCPU)
Affiliation:
Queen鈥檚 CardioPulmonary Unit (QCPU), Department of Medicine
Submission Year:
2022
Aging with Oasis
Riley Malvern
Oasis is a program co-developed by older adults to strengthen and sustain their communities to support aging in place. The Oasis Evaluation and Expansion research team has been working with Oasis communities since 2018 to expand the program across Canada and to evaluate a number of health and well-being outcomes. This photo depicts a mural that represents the power of communities coming together. Each square of this mural was designed by an Oasis member from communities across Kingston and Belleville. Together, these squares form the Oasis logo, which was designed by members of the original Oasis community.
Location of photograph:
Kingston, Ontario
Affiliation:
Staff, Health Services and Policy Research Institute
Submission Year:
2022
Crystalline Acid
Dan Reddy
This photo taken with scanning electron microscopy depicts an extremely small yet precise volume (i.e., nanolitre-sized) of crystallized decanoic acid. We are using these spots of crystalline acid to extract and preconcentrate, or soak-up, chemicals of concern like opioids from wastewater samples. This preconcentration step improves our ability to monitor these chemicals. By doing so, we can improve how we detect these harmful compounds and protect local watersheds.
Location of photograph:
Chernoff Hall, Queen's University
Affiliation:
PhD Student, Chemistry
Submission Year:
2022
Polar Bear Denning
Scott Arlidge
This photo demonstrates the collection of snow from inside a maternal polar bear den to collect environmental DNA. When the mother digs out the den, skin cells from its paws are abraded and stuck to the snow. Some preliminary research shows that we may be able to identify individual bears by analyzing these snow samples, information which can inform polar bear population management. My research is a pilot of ground-based non-invasive polar bear monitoring techniques, with a focus on Inuit inclusivity. Inuit Elders and polar bear hunters were key knowledge holders and collaborators throughout this research.
Location of photograph:
Coral Harbour, Nunavut
Affiliation:
Graduate Student, School of Environmental Studies
Submission Year:
2022
Gastropod Mummy
Ruqaiya Yousif
This is a picture of a gastropod mummy laying down her egg cases. My research is to assess the stable isotope (C and O), clumped isotope (鈭�47), and trace element compositions of living and Quaternary shells from the Arabian/Persian Gulf. The aim is to link these analyses with modern oceanographic data to develop a robust proxy for understanding oceanographic change in the rock record. In simple terms, I am trying to link the shell chemistry with its surrounding environment and then use this link to assess oceanographic changes in the past 125K year. At the time of this picture, we were growing gastropods under laboratory conditions and performing in vitro fertilization of oysters.
Location of photograph:
Qatar
Affiliation:
PhD Student, Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
Submission Year:
2022
