Winners: 2024 IPA Photography Contest

This year’s Photography Contest theme, Permafrost in Colour, was captured by contestants in many spectacular and inspiring photos. Thank you for sharing your memories and research activities with the international permafrost community. All entries can be viewed here.

The IPA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Photography Contest. The winning photos will also be featured in the Frozen Ground Newsletter later this year.

WINNER (€100):

Marjolaine Verret (UNIS, Svalbard, Norway)

Ice wedge polygons wearing their fall colors. The Adventdalen valley in Svalbard taking from the air. September 2023.

RUNNER-UP (€50):

Antoni Lewkowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Bakeapples (cloudberries), reindeer moss (lichen) and Labrador tea: a typical vegetation cover on peatland permafrost, southern Labrador. August 2023.

RUNNER-UP (€50):

Josefine Lenz (UndercoverEisAgenten Project)

Aklavik, a remote community cradled by the winding Mackenzie River, NWT, Canada, with expansive views of the surrounding lakes that stretch to the horizon. September 2022.