#ResearchIntroduction 2/2:
What drives my interest in these surveys is the effect of the environment on #galaxies. I've been working this on since my #MSci #dissertation on "The cores of galaxies in the Coma cluster", and it is explicit in the full name of AGES – the #Arecibo #Galaxy Environment Survey. WAVES, the other survey I led, covers the Virgo cluster (the 'V' in WAVES). I've also investigated environmental effects at other wavelengths, such as ionised carbon in Virgo in a recent paper