Urmas Tartes is an

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biologist and nature photographer.

Life and work

Tartes ended his studies in

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Secondary school in 1982 with a gold medal and graduated from

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

in 1989 with ''

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'' 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.

Awards

He was the recipient of the Fourth Class of

Order of the White Star The Order of the White Star ( et, Valgetähe teenetemärk; french: Ordre de l'Etoile Blanche) was instituted in 1936. The Order of the White Star is bestowed on Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Balti ...

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 Springtails (Collembola) form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods that are no longer considered insects (the other two are the Protura and Diplura). Although the three orders are sometimes grouped together in a class called ...

on a

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.Leaping wolf snatches photo prize
BBC Earth news, 21 October 2009

Books co-authored by Tartes

* ''Bioloogia gümnaasiumile'' (part III), Eesti Loodusfoto. 2001. . * ''Legendiloomad'', Varrak. 2008. . * ''Loodusfoto lugu ja lumm'', Varrak. 2009. . * ''Putukad õhus, maas ja vees'', Valgus. 2012. . * ''Eesti päevaliblikad'', Varrak. 2014. .

Gallery

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tartes, Urmas Nature photographers Estonian photographers Estonian biologists Academic staff of the Estonian University of Life Sciences Living people University of Tartu alumni People from Tartu Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class Estonian entomologists Year of birth missing (living people)