Image: appears here with the kind permission of Wetjens Dimmlich [Slow Loris Fickr site].
Send GrrlScientist to Antarctica!
Quark Expeditions is searching for an Official Blogger to join a voyage to Antarctica. Their goals, according to an email I received from their official spokesperson, Prisca, are to have their official blogger write a daily blog entry in English about their experience on this Antarctic trip, and to help raise public awareness of the environmental and conservation issues that pertain to the Antarctic. To select their official blogger, they are asking candidates to enter a competition where the public votes for whom they think would do the best job.
I am a wonderful candidate for this job as the official blogger for Quark Expeditions because I have been a prolific writer of a science and nature blog for five years, I have earned essential scientific training and background as well as having taught all age groups from children through adults, I have always strongly supported environmental and conservation objectives, and I possess intellectual curiosity combined with a sense of wonder. I have proven that I write consistently and well because I am one of the few blog writers whose contributions have appeared in every edition of the Open Laboratory, which is a print collection of the finest science, medicine and natural history writing published in the blogosphere; I am also a published writer and further, my blog platform here at ScienceBlogs provides tremendous international reach. Furthermore, a trip like this would be an amazing way for me to thank all of you, dear readers, for supporting me throughout these past difficult years.
I've posted a picture and written a 300 word essay and my entry is now public. To vote, go there and register your email address (and create a different password from that used for your email). Then, within a few seconds to an hour or so, you will receive a confirmatory message at your registered email address so you can then vote in this competition. Remember, according to the rules, there is "one vote per valid email address" and no more than two votes per individual. So after you've voted, be sure to ask everyone you know to vote for me, too.
Voting ends at noon EDT on 30 September 2009, and the Official Quark Blogger will travel to Antarctica in February 2010 to blog about the experience, chronicling the action, the emotion, and the drama as their polar adventure unfolds.
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As of today, registering to vote on their web site ... fail. They send out a confirmation email to which you must reply to complete registration. But it has not appeared. No can vote.
I just registered 10 minutes ago with no problem. Maybe the confirmation email landed in your spam folder?
I voted for you. You are #2 in popularity, right behind some guy Luis Montero. I will be plugging you on my blog. I am also awarding you as an "excellent" blog, in case you have not gotten that already.
Hello,
I noticed you are using my photograph on your blog. The orginal was 'borrowed' from my flickr site
http://www.flickr.com/photos/slowloris/2178655556/
The copyright belongs with me - if you would like to use it to promote yourself or your website I would appreciate being asked for permission or at least given credit for the image...
I'm voting for you in part because you posted Wetjens' credit under the photo -- which photo made my day.
Good luck
thanks rod! I always provide image credit and linkback when i know who is the photographer and where the webpage/blog/flickr account is located, so i am happy to do this for Wetjens (and for any other photographer whose work i use).