• Question: what is the biggest study you have ever studied?

    Asked by anon-205640 to Russell, Kathryn, Jose Angel, Gabriel, Affelia, adeliegorce on 4 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Russell Arnott

      Russell Arnott answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I recently worked on a project called ORCHESTRA (https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/orchestra/) which is all about how the ocean and climate are linked.
      The project is five years long, costs £8.4 MILLION and involves 100s of scientists!

    • Photo: Jose Angel Martinez-Gonzalez

      Jose Angel Martinez-Gonzalez answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I am involved as a collaborator in the BioWater project (http://www.ucd.ie/sirg/research/biowater/) that tries to develop methods to know if the materials that are used in implant medicine, … are in Perfect conditions or not without need of a new operation.
      This five years project is funded by the European Union and Science Foundation Ireland.
      In addition I am working on my own project funded by the European Union and the STFC to continue studying the dance of water and the application of this knowledge to the creation of new materials.

    • Photo: Kathryn Boast

      Kathryn Boast answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I was part of a big experiment called LUX-ZEPLIN, which is searching for dark matter (http://lz.lbl.gov/). There are 250 scientists from the UK, USA, Russia, Portugal and Korea working on it – and the experiment is a mile underground in a gold mine! They started working on it in about 2012, they’re still building it now, and it is going to have to run for three years to get all the data – so it’s going to take over 10 years in total!

    • Photo: Adelie Gorce

      Adelie Gorce answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      One of the telescopes I work with, located in Australia, is made of about 100,000 antennae spread over 2,000 miles squared! To make this work, we need a lot of scientists: some design the telescope, some engineers make it work, some researchers like me use the observations to answer physics questions. Overall, about 1,000 scientists from 20 countries are taking part in the project! It is very ambitious but we hope it will help us learn a lot about the Universe.

    • Photo: Gabriel Gallardo

      Gabriel Gallardo answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      I’m on the ATLAS experiment, where 3000+ people try to study fundamental particles, the building blocks of the universe. It’s pretty cool.

    • Photo: Affelia Wibisono

      Affelia Wibisono answered on 7 Mar 2019: last edited 7 Mar 2019 7:39 pm

      I used to work on ATLAS too! So it would be that for me as well. Only around 10 people in the whole world work on the same thing as I’m working on at the moment.

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