all photographs
the Exhibition catalogue

Each of us has a soul of an artist which means that we are sensitive to beauty which we would like to preserve in some way and share with others. Scientists are no exception here despite the fact they use emotionless means of expression in their dissertations. (more...)

Janusz Janeczek
Rector of University of Silesia in Katowice

Science is passion. The pictures taken within the frames of research projects at University of Silesia prove it. The photography competition ‘Science on camera’ has two major aims: it is to present the research projects to the public and to promote them. (more...)

Łukasz Adamczyk
Promotion and Careers Office University of Silesia in Katowice

The result of a scientific research is a product which is subject to the same market mechanisms as other fruit of human activities. The only difference is that it is created in a specific place by a specific group of people and unfortunately is often unintelligible to others. (more...)

Organizers of the Competition

Grand Prix

'New women - old Silesia'
'The role of gender identity and society competences in developing life plans of young modern women from the Upper Silesia region'

The special guests

'Rare and endangered'
'The monitoring of plants, animals and biotopes in Silesia Voivodship'

'Workers' estates - grey pearls of Silesian industrial architecture'
'The old workers' estates of Upper Silesia - the study of the place and the importance of the industrial culture in the urban space'

Projects

'The Beskid Mały Range - story in trees written'
'Enclaves of the oldest tree stands with participation of a silver fir Abies alba MILL. in the landscape of the Beskid Mały Range'

'Firs survive so long as beeches sough'
'Distribution, quantitative participation and vitality of silver fir Abies alba MILL. in forest communities of the Beskid Mały'

'Common and rare but in Katowice forever'
'Vegetation diversity on anthropogenic changed habitats in Katowice city'

'Green in black Silesia'
'Ecophysiological features of selected plants growing on areas under anthropogenical pressure'

'»SurDada« - Surrealism and Dadaism in pixels'
'Second Course 115 - »SurDada« - Digital and multimedia graphic design workshops dedicated to dadaism and surrealism'

'Hacquetia epipactis - Silesian relict painted with electrons'
'Structure and histochemistry of fruit of Hacquetia epipactis (Scop.) DC. (Apiaceae)'

'Silesia seen from orbit'
'Influence of natural and anthropogenic factors on condition and dynamism of landscape in selected areas of Poland and Europe by means of remote sensing methods'

'Psychologist in hospital - in search for the best organizational solutions foe health service'
'The Human System Audit (HAS)'

'Nature is my teacher'
'The efficiency of group ecological instruction in shaping ecologically friendly attitudes'

'New women - old Silesia'
'The role of gender identity and society competences in developing life plans of young modern women from the Upper Silesia region'

'Horse chestnut leaf miner - small killer of large trees'
'Antioxidative capabilities of three consecutive generations of Cameraria ohridella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) under systemic insecticides (imidaclopride)'

'Deserts, volcanoes, salty lakes - natural phenomena of Upper Silesia'
'Anthropogenic environments - forms and processes'

'Alders - give the wetland beauties a chance'
'Habitat related aspects of the ecology of the black alder forests'

'Make the first step - let the nature do the rest'
'Migration of forest plant species to the herb layer of post-agricultural alder plantations in diverse habitat conditions'

'In the colours of mining industry - the green have a lead playing with the black and match is not over yet'
'Spontaneous Plant Cover on Colliery Spoil Heaps in Upper Silesia (Southern Poland)'

'Mining subsidence - a new challenge for Silesian environment'
'The phytocoenotic diversity of post-coal mine subsidences, and their role in the structure of adjacent forest communities and possibilities of management'

'Forest invader - Carex brizoides does not care even about trees'
'The causes and effects of expansion of Carex brizoides'

'Thrips - beauty hidden in a bouquet of flowers'
'Morphological diversity within the Thysanoptera (Insecta) group'

'Dumps - life of moss mites where moss will not grow soon'
'Colonization and development of oribatid mite communities (Acari: Oribatida) on post-industrial dumps'

'Quiet life of mites in old mine underground galleries. A different view on heritage of industrial culture of Silesia'
'Oribatid fauna (Acari: Oribatida) in the mine underground galleries'

'City. Elements and metamorphoses. Dynamics of urban space in sociological interpretation'
'Social conditionings of modernization of Silesian voievodship'

'Between fear and admiration - social ghettos in old industrial region'
'Social conditionings of modernization of Silesian voievodship'

'Woodlouse Porcellio scaber - »quick silver« full of heavy metals'
'Selected indicators of chemical stress and profiles of detoxifying enzymes dependent on hepatopancreas and digestive tract glutathione in Porcellio scaber Latr. (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in chronical nickel intoxication'

'Better than Brits, because… Polish post-industrial sites are worse than British'
'Diversity of vascular plant species on post-industrial sites in two comparable urban and post-industrial areas in Poland and the UK'

'Unwanted changes - riparian forests colonised by invaders from the East'
'Changes in plant species richness in some riparian plant communities as a result of their colonisation by taxa of Reynoutria (Fallopia)'

'Post-industrial Wastelands - Unplanned Biological Laboratory'
'Vegetation diversity and dynamics on post coal mine waste sites'

'The Mystery of Goczałkowickie Lake'
'Construction and tests of the Automatic Biodetector of Water General Toxicity (ABWGT) - a system applied to monitoring water'