Spent yesterday exploring a (very) wet woodland, helping out the team here with experiment set up and thinking about future methane flux measurements in the woodland- Thanks for inviting me!

A bit different to my PhD fieldwork, but I wanted to give some appreciation and post some photos from my amazing year working and flying with FAAM Airborne Laboratory whilst completing my masters in chemistry. Hopefully I’ll be flying on the 146 again!

A group of us spent day 4 of the ⁦RHUL Earth Sciences⁩ Pembrokeshire trip cruising and air and water sampling around Milford Haven.

Looking and feeling absolutely thrilled to put on some waders and get stuck in to my fieldwork at Forest Research this week, where I’ll be measuring greenhouse gas fluxes from the forest floor over the course of a year

Same place, a few months later. It’s a bit harder to spot my collars now! Enjoying seeing the change the seasons bring during my monthly sampling at Forest Research

It’s a privilege to work in such a beautiful place, and it’s made better by working with such great people too. Been having a fun (and muddy!) few days setting up our measurement site in the wet woodland at @wakehurst_kew where we’ll measure GHG fluxes over the course of a year.

Can you guess what this does? Join us Royal Welsh Agricultural Society to find out how it is helping us to assess the amount of carbon stored in a woodland. #FRatRWS forestresearch.gov.uk/events/130855-…

Painting in an ancient woodland isn’t something I thought I’d be doing during a PhD, but here I am! More days spent setting up our wet woodland research site at @wakehurst_kew , GHG flux measurements soon to come!

And a view from on board - featuring Steph Batten (she/her) in the Mission Scientist jumpseat as we sample methane emissions over Scottish wetlands for #ResearchRunway🛫💨

Photos from an unbelievably exciting day this week: sat in the jumpseat of FAAM Airborne Laboratory’s research aircraft leading a flight aimed at characterising methane flux from peatland across the Flow Country. I’m still completely in awe of those views! Thanks to everyone involved! ✈️

I’m really excited to be helping expand the current gas flux measurement sites at Wakehurst to include a wet woodland site too!

Half a kilometre of cabling, two solar panels, 60m of boardwalk and our LI-COR CO2/CH4 analyser. Our fifth greenhouse gas monitoring hub is coming together with Royal Holloway Health Studies RHUL Earth Sciences and @wakehurst_kew

bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… Royal Holloway's mobile greenhouse gas lab measurements verified the very large methane emissions seen by satellite and our isotope and ethane measurements confirmed it was a gas pipeline leak RHUL Earth Sciences RoyalHollowayScience

We’ve been working in the #wetwoodland at @wakehurst_kew today installing dipwells for hydrological monitoring as part of the Wet Woodlands Research Network research network and supporting Steph Batten (she/her)’s PhD. I’m excited to see what the data show!