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hi everyone my name is michaela and i'm

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a phd student from the university of

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auckland

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i'm just going to talk to you about some

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of the work i've been doing which

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includes

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3d imaging earth's oldest evidence of

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life

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formation which is found in north

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western australia and is 3.48 billion

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years old

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it is biosedimentary structures called

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stromatolites

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and unfortunately a lot of the outcrop

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deposits are highly weathered

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and this has caused a lot of debate in

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the literature over their biogenicity

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so we undertook a drilling campaign and

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obtained fresh drill core which shows

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amazing preservation of these deposits

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and we actually image some specific

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horizons

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using the dingo in amsterdam and so this

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3d

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scan you can actually see that this

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shows that the stromatolite says 3d and

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morphology

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so this is helping us with proving the

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biogenicity of these deposits

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and so i'm currently rendering a 3d