Last week I presented a project poster at the annual Tectonic Studies Group (TSG) conference held in St Andrews. However, my main objective for this conference was to conduct my first "experiment" of the project!
It was a little daunting, simply because I'd never done something like this at a conference before and I didn't really know what to expect. One of the first people to do the experiment asked me how many participants I needed. The truth was, I didn't know. The conference had around 80 attendees, so I figured 40-50 would be a nice number, but really I didn't have any way of setting an expectation. The more, the better was what I landed on!
The experiment asked a series of "getting to know you" questions, aimed at characterising each of the participants in terms of their experience across the geosciences more widely, and also specific experience more closely related to the exercise I had set. They were then set loose to mark up a drone image of a mystery outcrop with the fractures they could observe. I'd set a relatively short period for folks to carry out their observations asking participants to spend 15-20mins on it.
I now have the data processing to do, a large part of which will be the digitising of the individual outcrop observations. These data will then be analysed with respect to a number of fracture parameters, participant characteristics etc. I'm excited to see what the results might look like. Watch this space!
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