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Profile 2007 - Desktop Wallpaper Images
Here are downloadable desktop wallpaper images of the photographs included in the 2007 Profile calendar, in three commonly-used screen resolutions. Click one of the links below the information about any photograph to select the appropriate image size of that photo for your computer's screen resolution. To use the photo for your desktop wallpaper:
Windows: Right-click to save the image to your computer, then set your desktop wallpaper through "Display Properties" to select the image you have saved.
Macintosh: Right-click to save the image to your computer, then set your desktop wallpaper through "Change Desktop Background..." to select the image you have saved.
Sea Floor Relief of Bryant Canyon
Bryant Canyon is one of six submarine canyons that cut across the Texas and Louisiana Continental Slope and rise in the northwest Gulf of Mexico. Submarine canyons cutting the Continental Slopes have been found at depths greater than two km below sea level. They are formed by powerful turbidity currents, volcanic, and earthquake activity. Texas A&M's Department of Oceanography has discovered and named many of these canyons.
Image credit: J.Y. Liu and W.R. Bryant, Texas A&M University
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Clovis Projectile Points and Bifaces
These projectile points and bifaces were excavated from the Gault Clovis site in Texas. They were recovered with other stone tools and the remains of mammoth, bison, and small animals. The Center for the Study of the First Americans is currently excavating the Buttermilk Creek Clovis site just downstream from the Gault site.
Photograph by Charlotte Pevny, Texas A&M University
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Elvis
Elvis, a turtle from the El Paso Zoo, came to the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biological Sciences to correct a problem with his digestive system.
Photograph by Larry Wadsworth, courtesy of El Paso Zoo
Flag of the United States
Texas A&M's Division of Research and Graduate Studies is home to the Integrative Center for Homeland Security, a center which explores the entire range of homeland security activities and identifies educational, research, and outreach needs; and the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense, an integrated, full-spectrum center protecting America from exotic and engineered animal diseases that threaten public health and economic stability.
Photograph by Jean Wulfson, Texas A&M University
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Golgi
Close-up image of a neuron in the cerebral cortex of a mouse. The brain tissue was stained en bloc using Golgi-Cox and imaged using serial sectioning with a knife-edge scanning microscope (KESM). KESM is relatively new and was developed in the Brain Networks lab in the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M.
Image credit: David Mayerich, Texas A&M University
Shipwreck Excavation
An excavation of a fifth-century B.C. Greek shipwreck off the Turkish coast as seen from Texas A&M's Institute of Nautical Archeology's two-person submersible CAROLYN.
Photograph by Institute of Nautical Archeology, Texas A&M University
Sorghum Seed
A cross-section of Sorghum seed was stained with phenosafranin and fluorescence. The image shows tissue-type specific staining of the seed coat (predominantly red), the protein-rich aleuron layer (red cells with blue dots), and the large parenchyma cells (bluish) containing starch grains (green circles). Images were acquired in Texas A&M's Microscopy and Imaging Center.
Image credit: Stanislav Vitha, Texas A&M University
Spiral1 Left
This image is part of a stereo image pair. When viewed as a left-right pair in a stereo viewer, a full 3D stereo-optic effect is created. Gray prepared this work from his investigation into fractal generation of 3D objects. It was presented at VizaGoGo-14, April 30 - May 5, 2007, at Texas A&M's Rudder Theater Complex.
Image credit: Landon Gray, Texas A&M University
StarRotor
The StarRotor engine uses the same Brayton thermodynamic cycle jet engines use to turn fuel into work. The rotor serves the same function in the StarRotor engine as turbine blades do in a jet engine. Research is performed on the fuel-efficient StarRotor engine in Texas A&M's Department of Chemical Engineering.
Photograph by Jean Wulfson, Texas A&M University
Thin Section
A sample of hardrock attached to a glass slide, polished to a thickness of several microns and viewed with cross polarized light. Colors are determined by the minerals that are present. This is a research sample from Texas A&M's Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.
Photograph by IODP/Texas A&M University
Transgenic Cotton Plant
A transgenic cotton plant regenerating from cultured cells. The cells were genetically engineered so that the regenerated plant will produce seeds that are free of toxic gossypol while the foliage maintains natural levels of the toxin to ward off insect attack. Reduced-gossypol cottonseed will have a significantly higher feed value and may even be used as a high-protein food source, thus improving the market value of this underutilized by-product of fiber production.
Photograph by Jean Wulfson, Texas A&M University
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Zebrafish
Zebrafish are small tropical fish that are important model organisms. They are used to study vertebrate development and diseases. Texas A&M's Department of Biology uses Zebrafish to study genetic blindness disorders.
Photograph by Jean Wulfson, Texas A&M University
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