Rolex Laureates Collaborating – Jürgen Freund on Assignment for Rolex in Ningaloo 2008

At September 5, 2011
By Stella Chiu-Freund
In Australia, Marine, Ningaloo Reef, Publications, Published in the web, Science
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Rolex Laureates Collaborating – Jürgen Freund on Assignment for Rolex in Ningaloo 2008

FLASHBACK – May 2008

Rory Wilson and Brad Norman - two Rolex Award for Enterprise Laureates joined forces to study whale sharks of Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. Yogi was given this “difficult” assignment of spending luxurious time onboard the boat of retired NBA basketball player Luc Longley to photograph these two scientists. First thing he told me about the boat was that it was custom built for Luc who towers 7’2″ and Yogi’s feet were dangling when he sat on the toilet!

PATA Gold Awards 1010 - Juergen Freund Travel Photograph winner

With the many Rolex press releases that came out about this collaboration, one particular article from Qatar Airways’ inflight magazine Oryx led to Yogi winning the 2010 PATA Gold Award for Travel Photographer! Search for the winning picture in the December 2009 issue of Oryx Magazine!

AIMS CReefs – Census of Marine Life, Lizard Island 2008

At September 5, 2011
By Stella Chiu-Freund
In Australia, Great Barrier Reef, Magazine publication, Marine, Photography, Publications, Published in the web, Science, Scuba Diving
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The Census of Marine Life (CoML ) is a grand global project with an objective to survey and analyze changes from past to present in marine life biodiversity, distribution and abundance, and to compile the resultant data into a comprehensive database called the “Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS),” to be used in forecasting the future of marine life. We are so fortunate to have been a part of this mammoth marine research project, which recently won the International Cosmos Prize 2011 in Japan. Congratulations to the Scientific Steering Committee of CoML.

With our rich and varied collection of images from the Great Barrier Reef, an big article called Great Barrier Reef: Das blaue Mysterium came out August 2010 in GEO Magazine. See the GEO Fotogalerie of the GBR story here.