OR/16/030 Outreach and knowledge exchange
| Thomson, Alan W P. 2016. Geomagnetism review 2015. British Geological Survey Internal Report, OR/16/030. |
A wide variety of outputs are produced by the Geomagnetism team, including papers in scientific journals, commissioned reports, posters, talks and presentations.
Scientific journal publications — published 2015
Beggan, C D. 2015. Sensitivity of Geomagnetically Induced Currents to Varying Auroral Electrojet and Conductivity models. Earth Planets and Space, 67 (24).
Hamilton, B, Ridley, V A, Beggan, C D, Macmillan, S. 2015. The BGS field candidate models for the 12th generation IGRF. Earth Planets and Space, 67 (69).
Olsen, N, Hulot, G, Lesur, V, Finlay, C C, Beggan, C, Chulliat, A, Sabaka, T J, Floberghagen, R, Friis-Christensen, E, Haagmans, R, Kotsiaros, S, Lühr, H, Tøffner-Clausen, L, Vigneron, P. 2015. The Swarm Initial Field Model for the 2014 geomagnetic field. Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (4). 1092–1098.
Thébault, E, Finlay, C C, Beggan, C D, Alken, P, Aubert, J, Barrois, O, Bertrand, F, Bondar, T, Boness, A, Brocco, L, Canet, E, Chambodut, A, Chulliat, A, Coïsson, P, Civet, F, Du, A, Fournier, A, Fratter, I, Gillet, N, Hamilton, B, Hamoudi, M, Hulot, G, Jager, T, Korte, M, Kuang, W, Lalanne, X, Langlais, B, Léger, J-M, Lesur, V, Lowes, F J, Macmillan, S, Mandea, M, Manoj, C, Maus, S, Olsen, N, Petrov, V, Ridley, V, Rother, M, Sabaka, T J, Saturnino, D, Schachtschneider, R, Sirol, O, Tangborn, A, Thomson, A, Tøffner-Clausen, L, Vigneron, P, Wardinski, I, Zvereva, T. 2015. International Geomagnetic Reference Field: the 12th generation. Earth, Planets and Space, 67 (79).
Thébault, E, Finlay, C C, Alken, P, Beggan, C D, Canet, E, Chulliat, A, Langlais, B, Lesur, V, Lowes, F J, Manoj, C, Rother, M, Schachtschneider, R. 2015. Evaluation of candidate geomagnetic field models for IGRF-12. Earth, Planets and Space, 67 (1).
Whaler, K A, Beggan, C D. 2015. Derivation and use of core surface flows for forecasting secular variation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120 (3).
Submitted, accepted and to appear 2016 (at March 2016)
Swan, A, Shanahan, T, Turbitt, C, Rasson, J. 2016. Hardware Developments to Determine the Transfer Function of a 1-second Fluxgate Magnetometer. JIGU-IAGA Special Volume-2/2016: Geomagnetic Measurements, Observatories and Applications, ISSN 0971-9709.
Ridley, V, Holme, R. 2016. Modeling the Jovian magnetic field and its secular variation using all available magnetic field observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 121.
Beggan, C D, and Marple, S R. 2016. Space weather goes to schools. Astronomy and Geophysics.
Other publications
BGS Reports: ‘2014 Annual Review’
1 joint BGS and NOAA report: ‘The US/UK World Magnetic Model for 2015–2020’
6 Customer Reports (UK survey & OS; oil industry services; Review of European Forecasting Capability)
108 Observatory Monthly Bulletins: http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/data_service/data/bulletins/bulletins.html
Bi-monthly column on Space Weather for Royal Institute of Navigation’s ‘Navigation News’
Contributions to BGS’s ‘GeoBlogy’:
* The St Patrick’s Day Geomagnetic Storm... by Sarah Reay: http://britgeopeople.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/the-st-patricks-day-geomagnetic-storm.html
* Measuring magnetic history at Godrevy Point... by Anthony Swan: http://britgeopeople.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/measuring-magnetic-history-at-godrevy.html
Magnetic Interactions, Leeds UK, January
- 1 poster
SEREN workshop ‘Physical pathways to space weather impacts’, London, UK, February
- 1 presentation (Thomson)
US-UK workshop on the space weather hazard to power grids, Washington DC, USA, February
- 1 presentation (Thomson)
ISCWSA (SPE wellbore positioning) meeting, London, UK, March
- 1 presentation (Macmillan)
Living with a Star workshop on Geomagnetically Induced Currents, Colorado, USA, March
- 1 presentation (Thomson)
Niemegk Colloqium, Niemegk, Germany, June
- 2 presentations (Clarke & Turbitt, Thomson & Flower)
IUGG Prague, Czech Republic, June
- 9 talks (Baillie, Beggan, Billingham, Clarke, Kelly, Kerridge, Reay, Thomson)
- 5 posters
- 2 Medals (Kerridge, Riddick)
National Astronomy Meeting, Llandudno, UK, July
- 1 presentation (Kelly)
- 1 poster
- 1 press release
Swarm workshop, Paris, France, September
- 2 presentations (Brown, Macmillan)
MagNetE Repeat Station Conference, Budapest, Hungary, September
- 1 presentation (Swan)
ISCWSA (SPE wellbore positioning) meeting, Houston, USA, September
- 1 presentation (Clarke)
SCOSTEP/WDS Workshop on ‘Global Data Activities for the Study of Solar-Terrestrial Variability’, Tokyo, Japan, September
- 2 presentations (Reay)
European Space Weather Week 12, Ostend, Belgium, November
- 1 presentation (Kelly)
- 1 poster
- Two exhibitions stands, Live Forecast (Baillie), End-user meeting & Splinter meetings
Geomagnetism Advisory Group annual meeting, Edinburgh, September
- 9 presentations (Beggan, Billingham, Clarke, Flower, Kelly, Macmillan, Turbitt, Thomson)
Geomagnetism Team seminars, Edinburgh
- 12 presentations throughout the year by team members, students and visitors
Some other notable outputs
Observatory tours
- Eskdalemuir Observatory — Edinburgh University School of Geoscience visited in February as part of Innovative Learning Week and a local walking group were also provided with a tour of the observatory.
- Hartland Observatory — we hosted visitors from Devon County Council, the observatory was used by a student from Royal College of Art, London as part of a Design Interactions MA project, as well as researchers from Imperial College London measuring microtremors.
Edinburgh university undergraduate lecture series (September 2014–April 2015)
- 4th Year Honours Course on ‘Geomagnetism’, by Ciarán Beggan & Gemma Kelly (8 lectures)
- 3rd year Geophysics course on Earth and Planetary Structure by Ciarán Beggan, & B. Baptie (14 lectures)
- 3rd year Geophysics course on Geophysical Techniques for Terrestrial Environmental Applications by Ciarán Beggan and Gemma Kelly (10 lectures, 3 labs, fieldwork)
Public lectures, presentations and demonstrations
- Educational and training activities, including participation at the Dunbar Science festival (Flower, Beggan, Billingham), March 2015
- Presentation at Celebrating Science — Careers Event at Our Dynamic Earth
- Involvement in the Space Weather Public dialogue
- Institute of Physics ‘Lab in a Lorry’ hands-on experimental outreach event (Billingham)
- Falkirk schools S6 Routes into Employment Careers networking event (Billingham)
- Invited talk on ground effects and monitoring of space weather, University College London, Mullard Space Science Lab (Billingham)
13 Geomagnetic disturbance alerts emailed to over 3700 subscribers
Mention in The Shetlands Times regarding housing development near Lerwick Observatory