Urmas Tartes
Urmas Tartes is an Estonian biologist and nature photographer.
Urmas Tartes
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- Name
- Urmas Tartes
- Occupation
- Biologist Photographer
- Birthplace
- Tartu, Estonia Urmas Tartes is an Estonian biologist and nature photographer.
- Born
- 1963 · Tartu.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Estonia
- Education
- University of Tartu
- Honours
- Order of the White Star and 4th Class
- Languages
- Estonian
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• Name — Urmas Tartes • Occupation — Biologist Photographer • Birthplace — Tartu, Estonia Urmas Tartes is an Estonian biologist and nature photographer.
Life and work
Life and work
Tartes ended his studies in Nõo Secondary school in 1982 with a gold medal and graduated from University of Tartu in 1989 with cum laude as biologist-zoologist. He became Doctor of Philosophy in 1995 with a thesis "Respiration Rhythms in Insects". Since 1989 he worked in Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany. Between 1996 and 2004 he served as the director of the institute. Between 2005 and 2010 he was a professor in Estonian University of Life Sciences. From then on, he continued as a freelance nature photographer and writer.
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — Hemaris fuciformis • Illustration — Allacma fusca • Illustration — Vipera berus • Illustration — Anemone hepatica
Urmas Tartes pidamas loengut piltide keelest Teadusfoto 2013 lõpuüritusel.
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Awards
He was the recipient of the Fourth Class of Order of the White Star in 2001. In 2009 he won Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year in the category "Animals in their Environment" with a photo of a springtail on a snowflake.
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