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The Summit of Mauna Kea
No full textThis photo received third place in the 2012 Research student photography and image competition held to celebrate National Science Week (11-19 August)
Power poles
No full textThis photograph originally appeared in the 2014 Research student photography and image competition held to celebrate National Science Week (Aug 16-24). Blurb: Power poles represent a significant component of Australia’s infrastructure. There are an estimated 5.3 million timber utility poles in Australia – with an estimated value of more than $12 billion. Failure of poles can have serious life safety and economical implications
A journey through bacterial colonies
No full textThis photograph originally appeared in the 2014 Research student photography and image competition held to celebrate National Science Week (Aug 16-24). Blurb: The image is a highly magnified photograph of the fibres of a wound dressing, false coloured in violet, colonised by wound bacteria (rod-shape cells, false coloured in brown).
The mechanisms of interactions of bacteria with fibrous substrates are still poorly understood. My research shows that bacteria tend to cover the surface of the fibres and proliferate in the interspaces of the dressing. Bacteria colonising the empty spaces among fibres are glued together and proliferate following a spiral route, from the fibre surface towards the middle of the interspaces, leaving a progressively smaller “black hole” in the centre
The living lab - Swinburne Design Factory
No full textThis photograph originally appeared in the 2014 Research student photography and image competition held to celebrate National Science Week (Aug 16-24). Blurb: The purpose of my research within the Swinburne Design Factory is to explore, how the social and environmental elements of the Swinburne Design Factory impacts upon the inhabitants and their pedagogical and social experiences. The Swinburne Design Factory is not a regimented spatial entity; instead it comprises of active elements of social relations and interactions. It is a product of, and interrelation between, objects, space, individuals and ideas. Furthermore; it is a space that has a role to play in harbouring social connection and community engagement. It is a lively, funny, noisy, creative and inclusive environment in addition to the role it plays as an educator. Therefore; this photo captures a moment within Swinburne Design Factory during a prototyping session prior to the launch of the new Swinburne Design Factory at Hawthorn. It comprises of two superimposed images. The first image is of the space without inhabitants, which is then overlayed by an image with inhabitants interacting within the same space. Thus, demonstrating that the Swinburne Design Factory is a cultural and social pedagogical environment whereby inhabitants learn from both their surroundings and social interactions within the environment. Finally, the Swinburne Design Factory logo has been incorporated into the photo to give it context
Molonglo radio telescope and Milky Way
No full textThis photograph originally appeared in the 2014 Research student photography and image competition held to celebrate National Science Week (Aug 16-24). Blurb: A part of the mesh of the Molonglo radio telescope in front of the Milky Way galaxy. The Molonglo radio telescope is located about 50 kilometres South-East of Canberra. A primary goal of my PhD is to help refurbish it so that we can use it for massive scale observations of pulsars, which are rapidly rotating and highly magnetized neutron stars and the search for Fast Radio Bursts, which are ultra-bright radio flashes whose origin is currently unknown
Slag foam forms and overflows. Why?
No full textThis photograph originally appeared in the 2014 Research student photography and image competition held to celebrate National Science Week (Aug 16-24). Blurb: In oxygen steelmaking, the slag formed in the converter produce foam and this foam overflows the container causing serious damage. Modelling the process in a computer will help in determining the reasons for the foaming of slag and will reveal the possible steps towards reducing the disastrous consequences
Swinburne students and cars, 1946
No full textSwinburne students Don Anderson (standing left), Wally Thomson, Geoff Simpson (standing right), Hawthorn, 1946
Climate Charlie
No full textThis image originally appeared in the 2012 Research student photography and image competition held to celebrate National Science Week (11-19 August)
Size does matter
No full textThis image originally appeared in the 2012 Research student photography and image competition held to celebrate National Science Week (11-19 August)