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Asked by anon-371976 on 9 Nov 2023. This question was also asked by anon-373739, anon-376047, anon-375815.
Question: what was your guys favourite experiment?!
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Octavia Brayley answered on 9 Nov 2023:
Great question! Probably some experiments I carried out for my master’s degree. I was looking at how light pollution (artificial light sources) affects the behaviour of marine animals. I went to a beach each week to collect some crabs and then exposed them to different light sources to see how they impacted their behaviour and movement patterns. I made an animation about it which you can see here:
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Ian McKinley answered on 10 Nov 2023:
In the early 1980s, I worked on developing a really interesting experiment to study the movement of radioactivity deep underground, which was carried out in a laboratory beneath the Swiss Alps (https://www.grimsel.com/ ). This work is still continuing today, carried out by an international team from Europe, the US and Asia.
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Jonathan Allen answered on 10 Nov 2023:
My favourite experiment was something I did for my PhD degree at university. The task was to create a computer programme that could improve the designs of aeroplanes so that they could be lighter to fly – which would mean they need less fuel and so pollute the environment less – but also make sure they are strong enough not to fall apart under the strong forces they experience taking off, flying around and landing. I did lots of reading into the problem and how to write a computer programme and then went about doing it. I got some great results into new ways to improve aircraft designs and got to present my findings to scientists from across the world in places like London, Europe and USA!
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Ashley Hecklinger answered on 10 Nov 2023:
I remember back in school we extracted the DNA from a strawberry – that blew my mind at the time! I also look fondly back at the experiments we did during my undergraduate degree where we would go out into the forests and streams and sample salamanders and freshwater fish. I think having that chance to step away from the classroom and go out into nature was so important. In the first experiment we went out to streams which had been altered by humans to change the flow (usually for the purpose of agriculture), and we were looking to see if the alteration affected the biodiversity and number of fish compared with natural streams. In the second experiment we sampled salamanders along a survey area in the forest that was near an open agricultural field to understand how the number of salamanders increased with distance from the field.
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Amy Stockwell answered on 10 Nov 2023:
My favourite experiment was in a coffee factory. Our theory was that the transport system in the factory was breaking all the coffee beans and meant that we were losing all the good aromas. So we carried the coffee around the factory. All 6 tonnes of it, up 7 flights of stairs!
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Andrew Lyon answered on 15 Nov 2023:
I haven’t worked in a lab so don’t tend to do experiments in my job. When studying chemistry I always used to like making Esters because they smell fruity.
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