"GAMA: From Little Blue Fuzzies to Massive Red Monsters and Beyond"

ABSTRACT:

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is a large area multi-wavelength galaxy survey including optical spectra being collected at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. I will present some of my work to date with the GAMA survey, characterising the lowest star-forming systems in the sample - the little blue fuzzies. I will then outline how GAMA is ideally placed to answer questions remaining about the evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) - massive red monsters. I will also present the first stellar kinematics of BCGs from an Integral Field spectroscopy analysis undertaken with the VLT. Finally I will introduce one of the first follow-up proposals for GAMA: AAT/SPIRAL and ANU2.3m/WiFeS IFS observations to determine the spatially-resolved effects of galaxy environment - and beyond!