Amy Gough
Sam Melia and myself, from the Southeast Asia Research Group, recently attended AGU in Washington DC. It turned out to be a brilliant conference with a wide-array of interesting talks, busy and interactive poster sessions, and even a ‘night at the museum’ event at the Smithsonian (we chose the Museum of Natural History, of course).
Sam Melia presented a poster on the tectonic reconstructions of the Sorong Fault Zone in Eastern Indonesia. Sam uses ‘GPlates’, a bit of software that allows him to freely move tectonic plates to work out how they have ended up in their present location. Sam even took videos of his reconstructions with him, which really drew a crowd.
I presented an update on my work in Myanmar, drawing on data collected during my most recent field season, and the brilliant results of my most-recent MRes student, Joe McNeil. There is growing interest in the geology of Myanmar, so there were plenty of interesting and helpful discussions to be had (it also helped that my poster was directly opposite the coffee).
