Invisible Dust
London | Friday 18 May
Pollution level: Moderate
Pollution level: Moderate
Dr. Hugh Mortimer
Artist's rendition of the Sentinel-3 spacecraft, Image ESA
Dr Hugh Mortimer is a Planetary and Atmospheric Research Scientist at Space Science and Technology, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford. He will collaborate with the artists and curator to further his research into aerosols critical to the quality of people’s health and our understanding of climate change.
Mortimer directs his own research and has developed his own miniaturized spectrometer for the use in Earth based observation. This is to be used specifically for space based and in-situ monitoring of atmospheric trace gases. Mortimer is also part of a team responsible for the calibration of a future Climate Change monitoring instrument; the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) based on the satellite Sentinel 3. This is to be launched in 2012.