Commons:Wiki Science Competition 2023/Winners/Switzerland

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People in Science · Microscopy images · Non-photographic media · Wildlife & nature · Astronomy · General category · Image sets ··· Winners

These are the finalists for WSC2023 in Switzerland.

This country-level selection had a specific national organizer and a national coordination page.

Files

• This country has a category for its files, other files from there might have been uploaded after the local deadline and moved to the 2023 international category if such deadline was still valid.
• As of now, the files in the local category uploaded within the local deadline are 157, with 3 obviously unsuitable files.
• Uploaders statistics are available here.

Specific classes of files

• 4 video was uploaded in this category.
• 1 pdf files were uploaded in this category.
• This country had at least one set of images. See Image sets from Wiki Science Competition 2023 in Switzerland.

Jury

• the selection was performed directly, with no tool.
• coordinator: Alessandro Marchetti.
• the jurors were provided by a national jury:

  - Alessandro COBBE (mathematics)

  - Dominik LANDWEHR (media specialist)

  - Alessandro MARCHETTI (chemistry, outreach)

  - / Mascha STROOBANT (biology, outreach)

• the selection lasted from 2024-01-30 to 2024-03-10.
• the results were published on 2024-03-12.

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Files that were uploaded as part of a set are marked with (S), additional sets could have been reconstructed by the organizers.

Finalists

People in science

1st national finalist		2nd national finalist
Wildlife Photographer Giles Laurent in a ghillie suit. Giles Laurent National winner		Scientific photographs by Bart Vercruysse working at the conservation of endemic plants from the island of Fogo (Cape Verde). Didier Roguet

3rd national finalist		4th national finalist
Wildlife photographers in ghillie suits looking for red deers. Giles Laurent		Scientific photographs by Bart Vercruysse for the conservation of endemic plants from the island of Fogo (Cape Verde). Didier Roguet

5thnational finalist		6th national finalist
Field operator for wood poles inspection (Polux) in Turkey. Asticool .		An ichthyologist catches a Mastacembelus, or spiny eel, while diving in Lake Tanganyika. Charlotte E. T. Huyghe

Microscopy images

1st national finalist
SEM image of a corroding steel bar in reinforced concrete that is exposed to a corrosive environment. Zhidong Zhang National winner

Non-photographic media

1st national finalist		2nd national finalist
Red deer checking if a female is ready to mate in the Aletsch Forest Nature Reserve. Giles Laurent National winner		Air traffic in the Swiss night sky as seen from Oeschinensee . Giles Laurent

3rd national finalist		4th national finalist
Starlink satellites passing over the Swiss night sky as seen from Mürren. Giles Laurent		O'Portune Slab. Job Neuer

5thnational finalist
A curious spotted-necked otter investigating scientists diving in African Lake Tanganyika. Charlotte E. T. Huyghe

Image sets

1st national finalist		2nd national finalist
Stacked images of an European Bee-eater in flight. Giles Laurent National winner		Conservation of endemic plants on the island of Fogo (Cape Verde). Didier Roguet set of images reconstructed by the organizers.

3rd national finalist		4th national finalist
Wild Bearded Vulture Giles Laurent complete set can be seen here.		Photographers in ghillie suits looking for red deers. Giles Laurent complete set can be seen here.

5th national finalist		6th national finalist
Publication in the "Journal of Mathematics and the Arts", in collaboration with Nina Hungerbühler and Marcel Pirron. Norbert Hungerbühler set of images reconstructed by the organizers.		People learing to use Pollux testing equipment Asticool complete set can be seen here. set of images reconstructed by the organizers.

Wildlife and nature

1st national finalist		2nd national finalist
Wild bearded vulture in flight at Pfyn-Finges. Giles Laurent National winner		A capybara with a cattle tyrant on its back in the Iberá marshes. Luis Scarabino

3rd national finalist		4th national finalist
Golden eagle in flight at Pfyn-Finges (Switzerland). Giles Laurent		Wild Bearded Vulture in flight at Pfyn-Finges. Giles Laurent

5th national finalist		6th national finalist
Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in flight at Pfyn-Finges. Giles Laurent		Wild baby fawn in a the field rescued from certain death by volunteers using drones with thermal cameras to locate it before farm machinery mows around it. Giles Laurent

7th national finalist
Young common octopus (Octopus vulgaris), eating a piece of mussel flesh. Toto-720

Astronomy

1st national finalist		2nd national finalist
Human looking at the stars during Perseids with the Milky Way in the background. Giles Laurent National winner		Sunspots on June 7th 2023. Juliebern

General category

1st national finalist		2nd national finalist
Wood pole grading using nondestructive testing (ultrasound). Asticool National winner		An ichthyologist shows an Orthochromis luichensis, endemic to the Luiche River Basin in Tanzania. Charlotte E. T. Huyghe

3rd national finalist		4th national finalist
Wax Cylinder at the Swiss National Sound Archivesin Lugano. Medea7		Wax Cylinder at the Swiss National Sound Archivesin Lugano. Medea7

5th national finalist
Vinyl record cleaner at the Swiss National Sound Archivesin Lugano. Ferdinando Traversa