• Question: What unique investigations have you done?

    Asked by Sam;) Poppy to Lisa, Mark, Rachel, Sammie, Stephen, Tim on 6 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Lisa Baddeley

      Lisa Baddeley answered on 6 Mar 2018:

      I was part of the first team to run what we call atmospheric heating experiments on Svalbard. This is where we transmit a high power radio wave into the atmosphere to try to artficially heat it (in the same way that particles from the Sun cause heating when we have the aurora). The power of our radio wave was tiny in comparison to the aurora but we did manage to create some changes. And since we knew how much energy we were putting into the atmosphere we could get a better understanding of how the atmosphere was reacting.

    • Photo: Tim Duckenfield

      Tim Duckenfield answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      I use a specific kind of wave we see on the Sun to try and work out what the gas there is like, and how it is changing. Like a lot of science, I think lots of people are trying to answer the same questions as me, and some with very similar techniques – but I think I’m the only one using my kind of wave! Sometimes it is the variety of different techniques that allow us to really answer a question.

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