• Question: What is the most exciting experiment that you have been involved in so far in your career?

    Asked by Maddiel.xox to Stephen, Stephanie, Rehemat, Christopher, Caroline, Aileen on 7 Mar 2018. This question was also asked by 224cmtm45, ameliab.
    • Photo: Aileen Baird

      Aileen Baird answered on 7 Mar 2018:

      The experiment that I am involved with now! I work at Birmingham Institute of Forest Research where we have a really big and exciting experiment going on that lots of different scientists are working on. In a forest near Birmingham, we have some special towers which pump extra carbon dioxide ( a greenhouse gas) into the air, making the air how it will be in about 50 years time. This means that the trees are living in the future!
      Its so coool!!

    • Photo: Christopher Nankervis

      Christopher Nankervis answered on 7 Mar 2018:

      I took part in a study to investigate fatty liver, where I was scanned a lot in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine. I spent a lot time in a long, dark tube being scanned by the machine.

    • Photo: Caroline Hickman

      Caroline Hickman answered on 7 Mar 2018:

      I think the most exciting experiment that I have been involved in has been measuring the impact that therapy dogs can have in helping children talk about traumatic experiences. The dogs made a big difference, when they could not say things to us directly, they could talk about difficult things through the dogs

    • Photo: Stephanie Mann

      Stephanie Mann answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      I did an exciting experiment to measure the wind speeds at heights much higher than regular wind turbines. Some small inventors had built a real working flying wind turbine with sensors built on it, and flew it near a remote sensor (I type of radar than can measure far of wind speeds). I got to watch the flying wind turbine make electricity and measure the wind speed in real time to watch the turbine adjust it’s angle as the wind speed changes

    • Photo: Stephen Twomlow

      Stephen Twomlow answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      more than ten years ago we took computers onto farms in Zimbabwe and used the to simulate the current farming practices of the the smallholder farmers – then we asked a series of what if questions – if you had more money and could buy better seeds or more fertilizer, how might this affect your yields. The team was made up of agricultural crop specialists, economists (cannot escape them), sociologists, people skilled in facilitating group meetings and computer specialist who model crop systems – we spent a week with various farmers and designed five new research programmes – in fact once the farmers got the hang of the computer model the only way we could finish was when the batteries on the computers ended. It was great bringing so many different types of scientists together and linking their different scientific logics

    • Photo: Rehemat Bhatia

      Rehemat Bhatia answered on 9 Mar 2018:

      probably being able to scan plankton with a machine that zaps x rays at it to find out its chemistry!

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