Ting-Wei Wu
Report of GLOMAR PhD student Ting-Wei Wu about her participation in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria from 7 to 12 April 2019.
EGU 2019 is the first conference I attended in my life, in which 16273 scientists from 113 countries participated. I presented a poster entitled “Undrained shear behavior of saturated Ottawa Sand under anisotropic triaxial loading conditions to assess seismic strengthening” in the session “Earthquakes: from slow to fast, from the field to the laboratory and models” on the last day of the conference. During the conference, I got a few chances to discuss my results with my French co-supervisor Dr. Nabil Sultan, who guided me towards a positive solution of a question that has been haunting me for a long time. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to his continuous and excellent support in this very technical research topic. I would also like to thank Dr. Carl Harbitz, Dr. Sebastien Garziglia, and of course my primary supervisor Dr. Achim Kopf, for their agreement to arrange my further research stays in partner institutes.
It was also a great opportunity for me to meet up again with Dr. Jia-Jyun Dong, professor of my home university in Taiwan (National Central University) who also works on geotechnical engineering. He introduced me to another expert of laboratory soil tests Dr. Huai-Houh Hsu, an associate professor at National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. They kindly spent their time to listen to the problems I had with my experiments and provided me with some possible methods to improve my test quality in the future.
Aside from the knowledge input from the experts, I also got the chance to demonstrate my results to non-specialists using easy language, and I think it was a good practice of my science communication skills.
This week was very intensive to me because I attended many poster, oral and PICO sessions every day to learn new things. It was also great to see the progress of my SLATE and MARUM colleagues, and have time to hang out with them with some refreshments after each fulfilled day of work.
In summary, it was a great pleasure for me to join this huge meeting comprising all disciplines of earth, planetary and space sciences, which brought together geoscientists from all over the world to one place. Many thanks to SLATE that provided financial support for me to attend this General Assembly.
This photo is blurred because the data is not publicly available yet. The abstract of this work can be seen here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/EGU2019-17387.pdf