Miami University Project Dragonfly graduate students in the Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP), the Global Field Program (GFP), Earth Expeditions (EE) courses, and faculty and staff are invited to submit photos for the annual photo contest. Winners are announced each fall. Check out the winning 2022 photos here! Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who submitted photos!

In the U.S.

Monarch caterpillars eating milkweed, Bailey’s Harbor, Wisconsin. Photo by Miami University AIP graduate student Sarah Makinney of Elmhurst, Illinois. Mckinney is earning Miami University’s online AIP master’s degree with experiential learning through Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo.

A group of 6- to 10-year-old summer day campers exploring the creek for signs of human impacts at the Habitat Environmental Education Center in Kettering, Ohio. Photo by Miami University AIP graduate student Stephanie Scott of Kettering. Scott is earning Miami University’s online AIP master’s degree with experiential learning through Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.

A jumping spider (Phidippus princeps) peeks out of its webby, floral hammock in Kankakee Sands, a 10,000-acre restored tallgrass prairie along the Illinois-Indiana border. Photo by Miami University AIP graduate student Robin Allen of Momence, Illinois. Allen is earning Miami University’s online AIP master’s degree with experiential learning through Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo. 

International

Non-profit Associação Mico-Leão Dourado (AMLD) team members track golden lion tamarins in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Photo by Miami University GFP graduate student Sara Fee of Atlanta, Georgia.

Earth Expeditions students investigating mangrove ecosystems on an island in the Gulf of California, near Bahia de los Angeles, Baja, Mexico. Photo by Miami University GFP graduate student Ashley Konon of Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Kaieteur Falls in Kaieteur National Park, Guyana. Photo taken after a hike to see “the magnificent, untouched valley created by the 741-foot drop at Kaieteur Falls” by Miami University GFP graduate student Samantha Wolfe of Grawn, Michigan.