STFC IAA Portsmouth
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Portsmouth
Department Name: Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
Abstract
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People |
ORCID iD |
| David Bacon (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Fantuzzi L
(2023)
Marine recreation with a purpose: an emerging form of marine citizen science in the Ocean Decade
in Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism
Newsom R
(2023)
Comparison of breath-guards and face-masks on droplet spread in eye clinics.
in Eye (London, England)
Newsom R
(2022)
Detection of dental fomites using topical fluorescein.
in British dental journal
| Description | Dental collaboration |
| Organisation | Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration between our institute, Portsmouth hospitals, and University of Portsmouth schools of health and dentistry. Our IAA fellow together with Andrew Lundgren have engaged in research examining spread of droplets in high-resolution high-speed photographs, using techniques from astronomy object identification. This is in the context of understanding the spread of Covid-19. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Portsmouth Hospitals provided a respiratory therapist who made the droplet production model. Bristol provided precise aerosol sizes for comparison with our methods. |
| Impact | Papers are listed in the publications section. Disciplines are data science (our IAA); dentistry, ophthalmology, medicine. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Dental collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration between our institute, Portsmouth hospitals, and University of Portsmouth schools of health and dentistry. Our IAA fellow together with Andrew Lundgren have engaged in research examining spread of droplets in high-resolution high-speed photographs, using techniques from astronomy object identification. This is in the context of understanding the spread of Covid-19. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Portsmouth Hospitals provided a respiratory therapist who made the droplet production model. Bristol provided precise aerosol sizes for comparison with our methods. |
| Impact | Papers are listed in the publications section. Disciplines are data science (our IAA); dentistry, ophthalmology, medicine. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Imaging microplastics in the air |
| Organisation | ITV plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Our IAA fellow in conjunction with Andy Lundgren, joined Fay Couceiro, School of Civil Engineering and Surveying at the University of Portsmouth, to engage in imaging of micro plastics in the air using fluorescence techniques. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ITV filmed a segment showing the imaging, and showed this with an interview by Fay Couceiro on Good Morning Britain. |
| Impact | Good Morning Britain segment. |
| Start Year | 2023 |