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Asked by anon-246130 to Sam, Samantha, Nicol, Lori-Ann, Liam, David on 9 Mar 2020.
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Lori-Ann Foley answered on 9 Mar 2020: last edited 9 Mar 2020 10:52 am
I use climate models, just like weather forecasters use for Earth, but mine look at the weather on Mars. So I type information for how Mars is today or might have been in the past and then run the programme to get a weather forecast for Mars! It comes out as a spreadsheet full of numbers which I then turn into pictures, just like the ones you see on the weather forecasts for Earth. So I plot where it is hot, where it is cold, how the winds are blowing. I can also show where there are clouds and surface ice and how it has moved around the planet during the year. It is really, really interesting to be able to study the weather on another planet, using weather forecasting programs for Earth that have been changed for Mars!
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Samantha Faircloth answered on 9 Mar 2020:
Right now, I am writing a scientific paper for a peer-reviewed journal so that I can publish the work that I was doing during my PhD. I have just finished writing my thesis (a large book that you write during a PhD was describes and evaluates all of the research that is done) which will be available online after I have had my oral exam (called a ‘viva’) but now I need to have some of the thesis chapters officially published in the scientific world.
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Sam Frampton answered on 9 Mar 2020:
I am working on designs for a satellite to Neptune! For now, that mainly involves a lot of time at my computer coding, and making simulations of the environment a satellite at Neptune would be in. I also have to do a lot of writing to try and tell everyone about the results i’ve found
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David Sobral answered on 9 Mar 2020:
– Trying to find very bright galaxies when the Universe was just 5% of its age and studying how they dissipated the large scale “cosmic fog” made of neural Hydrogen when the Universe was just a toddler. Hopefully discovering the “CR8” galaxy!
– Understanding how galaxies evolve during 13 billion years, including how heavy elements are produced and dispersed in galaxies.
– Studying how the most energetic photons produced in the most massive stars propagate and escape galaxies, not only to study those labyrinths by themselves, but also to study how those photons make it out and can then affect the inter-galactic space and “heat it up”
Apart from that, I have a few smaller projects that often get triggered from interesting discussions and they are usually the most fun to work on!
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