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Urmas Tartes is an Estonian biologist and nature photographer.
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| Urmas Tartes in 2013. | |
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Urmas Tartes is an Estonian biologist and nature photographer.
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". [1]
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.
He was the recipient of the Fourth Class of Order of the White Star in 2001. [2]
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. [3]
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