Title slide - "Our Scientific Future: Turbulent, Convergent, Emergent"; background depicts computer-simulated turbulence


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Title slide - "Our Scientific Future: Turbulent, Convergent, Emergent"; background depicts computer-simulated turbulence

Image of "perfect spiral" galaxy

Image of Keck observatory with.laser beam aimed toward the sky

Blue Neptune

First Images of Cone Mosaic in Human Eye

Video showing conceptual operation of National Virtual Observatory

Schematic map of National Ecological Observatory Network

Image of a Rousseau painting of tropical forest scene, surrounded by various cutting-edge environmental sensors

Image of "artificial nose" - a diode

NSF Priority Areas

Image of US TeraGrid computing network superimposed onto a US map

Collage of colorful nanotechnology images

Artist's conception of "nano-dumpling"

Fractal collage: water drainage network, leaf vein network, Jackson Pollock painting

Photo, damaged and restored

Graphic depicting woman's eye.progressively enhanced by "inpainting"

Images of a variety of human faces

Graphic showing integration across different scales, from atomic to planetary, by biocomplexity

Image of microorganism that causes Chaga's disease

Cover of "The Microbe Project" report

Two graphs showing evolution of digital organisms; background shows evolution of E. coli

"Tree of Life" schematic

Stuart Perlmeter

Student watercolor paintings

Collage of images from this presentation