ARSF Contacts
The Airborne Research & Survey Facility is based at Gloucester Airport (Staverton):
NERC-ARSF Operations Centre
Firfax House
Meteor Business Park
Cheltenham Road East
Gloucester
GL2 9QL
Tel: 01452 859945
Fax: 01452 713219
Mobile (Acting Head): 07768 032714
Mobile (Science/ Co-Ordinator Coordinator): 07919 697851
Zoomable map
(enter your address in the box marked 'A' for directions)
Aerial photo (entrance to ARSF office is via the car park flagged, next to the large twin-engine aircraft parked on the grass).
Acting Head/Chief Pilot
Captain Carl Joseph
E-mail: cjos@nerc.ac.uk
Areas of responsibility:
- Manage the operational capabilities of the NERC ARSF.
- Flying the Dornier 288-101 during surveys and transits.
- Approve and oversee the planning, coordination of the flight schedule and instrument fit for each project and science campaign.
- Approve and oversee certification, instrument development and repairs.
- Approve the operational viability of any research grant application.
Science and Operations Co-ordinator
Dr Gary Llewellyn
E-mail: gaew@nerc.ac.uk
Areas of responsibility:
- Coordinate the efficient collection of scientific data by the scheduling of that season's list of commitments against different scientific requirements and operational restrictions.
- Communicate requirement of the science community to the operations team and operational restrictions to the science community.
- Publicise the NERC ARSF, and its capabilities, among the science community.
- Approve the scientific and logistical viability of any research grant application.
Co-pilot and Electronics Officer- Facility H&S Representative
David Davies
E-mail: davd@nerc.ac.uk
Areas of responsibility:
- Flying the Dornier 288-101 during surveys and transits.
- Arrange flight permissions and non-standard flight plans.
- Consider custom instrument installations into the aircraft, evaluate and advise on new equipment/instruments reporting on feasibility of new equipment.
- Coordinate the certification of new instrumentation and equipment on the aircraft.
- Coordinate the health and safety provision for the facility.
Technical Manager
Phil Goy
E-mail: pagoy@nerc.ac.uk
Areas of responsibility:
- Operation of the scientific instruments
- Planning the science surveys
- Instrument development and repair
- Data download, backup procedure and the quality assurance checks.
Instrument Operator / Data Co-ordinator
James Johnson
E-mail: jahn@nerc.ac.uk
Areas of responsibility:
- Operation of the scientific instruments
- Planning the science surveys
- Coordination of the data download, backup procedure and the quality assurance checks.
- Delivery of data to the data analysis node.
ARSF - Data Analysis Node
Quality checks and pre-processing of data acquired by the ARSF are conducted by ARSF~Processing. If you wish to check the processing status of your data, you can do so online or you can contact ARSF~Processing.