My First Published Paper
After my honours year (4th year undergraduate), I was offered a position within the geophysics department assisting in current research projects. The majority of the work was related to coastal seawater interface studies, in a similar vein to my honours research project. It was an interesting year, to be sure. The practicalities of collecting high-quality data in coastal dunes, with a new-to-me instrument (and method!), was an interesting experience to say the least. Some aspects, such as land access permissions, were a great opportunity to meet people and explain our research, whilst others, such as learning to peculiarities of second-hand equipment, was not so much fun. Towards the end of that year, a PhD was suggested (and incidentally, the start of this blog). The department had recently acquired some high-powered electromagnetic surveying equipment that I was interested in using, and so my candidacy application was heavily oriented towards the development and optimisation o