Aislinn's primary research interest is the ecological impact of large-scale insect movement. Her area of expertise is the relationship between insect migration and disease transmission in agricultural systems. Her recent work focuses on the large-scale monitoring of insect movement and relating this to underlying ecological factors. Aislinn works with the vertical looking radar system and as a part of the Young Entrepreneur Programme, she is currently reviewing the potential for insects to be monitored at a national scale using weather radar systems and analysing the economic benefits of developing “biological” weather radar. Outside of her research work, Aislinn works in collaboration with colleagues at UCL and has won funding to develop low-cost soil moisture sensors for monitoring water usage in arid and semi-arid cropping regions.

Aislinn is also the Product Owner for FarmOS at Rothamsted Research, an agricultural research institute in the UK which is home to some of the world’s longest running field experiments. She is currently working with the FarmOS core team to develop a minimum set of information for farm operations data, which they have implemented in FarmOS using Quick Forms. Together with FarmOS she is also developing an experiment module designed to aid interoperability between a wide variety of different field experiments, from simple plant breeding trials through to complex agri-ecological systems experiments and long-term studies on soil nutrient amendments.