Expanding scientific horizons
Expanding scientific horizons
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with the FAAM Airborne Laboratory
with the FAAM Airborne Laboratory
Ideas Workshop 2025
Ideas Workshop 2025
Tuesday 2 September 2025, 9:30am-5pm
Tuesday 2 September 2025, 9:30am-5pm
Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre, 53 Edgbaston Park Rd, Birmingham B15 2RS
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Have you ever considered using a flying laboratory? Do you already use the facility and want to see us do something differently? Are you completely new to the idea of airborne atmospheric science and aren't sure where to start?
This workshop will allow the science community to develop ideas and help direct the future science of the FAAM Airborne Laboratory. Representatives from funding bodies will be on hand to discuss how your ideas can be funded.
Based on the ideas put forward, we will produce a white paper providing key recommendations to UKRI on community science priorities, funding approaches, and how to optimise use of the aircraft during non-UK deployments and shared flights.
What we need to consider during the workshop and in the subsequent white paper:
• Strategic research priorities (on a scale of research programme) which are driven by a strategic need (not necessarily just the use of FAAM), especially in alignment with NERC Forward Look and/or government missions. This can be NERC remit research but also any opportunities where NERC should be leading with other parts of UKRI (or outside), and any opportunities to link with international programmes.
• Longer-term pipeline of research needs, less formal than the above, but bigger than individual projects which gives some sort of view to the research ideas people have (especially from new users of the aircraft). This should include projects that can piggyback onto funded detachments.
• How the above two points link to FAAM capability - what instrumentation is required, is there expectation for new capabilities.
Workshop Agenda
9:30 Arrive
10:00 Opening talks (Alan Wooley, Lizzie garrat, James Lee)
10:30 Breakout groups
12:00 Lunch and FAAM capability exhibition, chairs to decide on further breakout groups.
13:30 Breakout group summaries (6 x 5 min), strategic program ideas, divide into new breakout groups to consider science program ideas.
14:00 Second breakout group discussions (approx. 4 groups)
15:30 Coffee and FAAM capability exhibition, chairs to produce summary presentations
16:00 Final strategic science idea presentations
16:40 Closing remarks and next steps, plans for production of white paper
17:00 Close
Breakout group 1 - Emissions:
Hugh Coe - chair
Grant Allen
Maria Russo
Charel Wohl
Andrew Crayford
Marsailidh Twigg
Freya Squires
Stephane Bauguitte
Sarah Moller
Breakout group 2 - Processing:
Jacqui Hamilton - chair
Francis Pope
Thomas Bannan
Lisa Whalley
Zhonghua Zeng
Ruth Doherty
Andrew Rickard
Joe Acton
Anwar Khan
Yuqing Dai
Neil Harris
Dave Oram
Richard Pope
Breakout group 3 – Aerosols / dust
Claire Ryder – chair
Hugo Ricketts
Martin Gallagher
Ben Williams
Ben Murray
Ken Carslaw
Nick Marsden
James Brean
Jamie Trembath
Robert Alexander
Phil Rosenberg
Breakout group 4 – Weather, clouds, climate:
John Methven – chair
Keith Bower
Jonny Crosier
Andy Turner
Ian Renfrew
Paul Connolly
Chris Barrell
Philip Stier
Floortje van den Heuvel
Gary Lloyd
Edward Gryspeerdt
Samantha Smith
Sam Clarke
Olivia Whiteside
James Bassford
Charles Chemel
Helen Dacre
Breakout group 5 – Satellite, remote sensing and other instrument validation:
Doug Parker – chair.
Adam Povey
Chris Walden
Andy Morse
Callum Middleton
Michael Lengden
Helen Brindley
Stuart Fox
Eloise Marais
Oleg Kozhura
Breakout group 6 – NERC / NCAS / FAAM:
James Lee - chair
Lizzie Garratt
Andrew Davis
Mo Smith
Alan Woolley
Barbara Brooks
Eleanor Dixon
Gemma Cornish
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