A question about the atmosphere.
A plan to test it.
Christopher Hill founded weatherhill to investigate how electromagnetism can influence atmospheric water. The immediate focus is fog and visibility at a defined site: an effect that can be measured, compared with a control and developed into a useful product.
As founder and lead scientist, Christopher sets the research direction, chooses the questions the program pursues and guides the development of FogLab. His work connects the physical mechanism to the experiment, and the experiment to the conditions a practical system would need to meet.
He also founded MaxwellX / Maxwell Explorations, Death X and Insider Labs. His background in business development and digital products informs how he builds research ventures, public knowledge resources and tools other people can use.
Research direction
Weatherhill begins with a specific question: does powering an electrostatic collector reduce optical extinction beyond the identical passive collector? That question anchors FogLab and the proposed WX-FOG-001 experiment.
The wider agenda follows charge delivery, droplet behavior, collector geometry, airflow and energy use. Christopher’s priority is to connect those measurements to a clear outcome: what changed, under which conditions, and what should be tested next.
A useful place to do the thinking
The paper library and scientific workbench are part of that approach. They let researchers follow an original source, inspect a calculation and bring a better question to the program. The research notebook records the reasoning behind the experiment, including corrections that change the design.
FogLab is at the protocol-design stage. Selecting a suitable facility and qualifying the measurements are the next steps before experimental results can be reported.