We asked you to tell us where your research took you this summer — and your tweets, Instagram pics and emails didn’t disappoint, with tales of dashing to Denmark from Honolulu and popping to Patagonia for PISCES (a project to measure the impact of ice field shrinkage).
But who has won the (rather striking) University of Bristol scarf?
The pins on this Google Map show that some of our postgraduate researchers travelled pretty far indeed, with entries about journeys to Canada, China and Japan.
However, when Kacper Sokol told us about his trip to the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Melbourne, we knew that this would be difficult to beat. (According to Google, Melbourne is 10,599 miles from Bristol — giving it a 2,000 mile lead over our next-best entry, Sarah Tingey’s terrestrial work in Chile.)
Although it’s fun to see the pins on our map, the most impressive part of the competition has been the fantastic photographs that PGRs sent along with their entries. Some of our favourites are in the gallery below.
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- ‘Not a bad spot for a conference dinner.’ Fiona Belbin, you are not wrong.
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- Enthralling falls. Lin Ma saw some spectacular sights during her trip to Canada.
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- ‘The ever-present foreboding grey low lying clouds at Camp Steffen, Patagonia’ — courtesy of Sarah Tingey.
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- The Melbourne supremacy — Kacper Sokol’s trip to Australia won our #PGRtrek competition.
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- A ‘Superior’ shot by Andrea Iannelli, who visited the lake whilst she was based in Minneapolis.
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- Walking the Wall — Rosalia Cuahtecontzi Delint and friends during her trip to China.
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- Bear with me. Monika Frysz’s encounter with a creature whilst in Denver.
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- Canoe? Don’t mind if I do. Cat Jarman enjoys a day off in Hawaii.
Thanks to everyone who took part in the #PGRtrek competition. Even if you didn’t win, you’ve helped to show that life as researcher really can (ahem) take you places.
