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Demobilisation of SALSA
(Oct. 2023 - Nov. 2023, Southern Alps, New Zealand)

The Southern Alps Long Skinny Array (SALSA) is an array consisting of 38 broadband and several short-period seismometers placed placed roughly every 10km along the Alpine Fault from Milford Sound to Maruia. It was set up for the research project "Fault slip and ground shaking in the coming Alpine Fault earthquake" led by John Townend, and greatly enhances data coverage around the fault zone for my Ph. D. work. It was installed in October 2021, and in October 2023 I went over to help the SALSA team demobilise the array.

Visit to Wiechert'sche Erdbebenwarte
(Feb. 2024, Göttingen, Germany)

Wiechert'sche Erdbebenwarte is the geophysical observatory associated with the old Geophysics Institute at the University of Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany). It played a key role of the development of seismology in the early 20th century and hosts the longest continuously-serving seismograph in the world. I went to visit the observatory to inform the "Mathematisation of the Earth" section of my talk "The Rise and Fall of Jeffreys' Simplicity Postulate in Early Crustal Seismology", before travelling to the site of the old Seismisk Afdeling of the Geodætisk Institut, where Inge Lehmann used to work.

Installation of CATERAN
(Nov. 2024, Blairgowrie, U.K.)

CATERAN is an array of broadband seismometers and nodes to investigate the crustal structure of the Highland Boundary Fault and the Highland Boundary Complex near Blairgowrie (U.K.) by a fellow Ph. D. student at the University of Edinburgh. I helped with the installation of some broadband seismometers.