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  [[Image:OR15034fig35.jpg|thumb|300px|Over 1000 people visited Murchison House during the annual BGS Edinburgh Open Day in September 2014   .]]
  [[Image:OR15034fig35.jpg|thumb|300px|Over 1000 people visited Murchison House during the annual BGS Edinburgh Open Day in September 2014.]]
A wide variety of outputs are produced by the Geomagnetism team, including papers in scientific journals, commissioned reports, posters, talks and presentations.     
A wide variety of outputs are produced by the Geomagnetism team, including papers in scientific journals, commissioned reports, posters, talks and presentations.     



Latest revision as of 11:28, 3 December 2019

Alan W P Thomson (editor), Ciarán Beggan, Ellen Clarke, Simon Flower, Brian Hamilton, Gemma Kelly, Sarah Reay, Tony Swan, Alan Thomson, Chris Turbitt (contributors). 2015. Geomagnetism review 2014. British Geological Survey Internal Report, OR/15/034.
Over 1000 people visited Murchison House during the annual BGS Edinburgh Open Day in September 2014.

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 2014

Thomson, A W P, 2014. Geomagnetic Observatories: Monitoring the Earth’s Magnetic and Space Weather Environment. Weather 69 (9), pp 234–237

Beggan, C, Hamilton, B, Macmillan, S and Clarke, E., 2014. Improving models of the Earth's magnetic field for directional drilling applications. EAGE First Break, 32 (3), pp 53–60

Beggan, C D, 2014. Automatic detection of ionospheric Alfvén resonances using signal and image processing techniques. Ann.Geophys, 32, pp 951–958

Submitted, accepted and to appear 2015 (at March 2015)

Beggan, C D. 2015. Sensitivity of Geomagnetically Induced Currents to Varying Auroral Electrojet and Conductivity models. Earth Planets and Space, 67 (24)

Whaler, K, and Beggan, C., 2015. Derivation and use of core surface flows for forecasting secular variation,Journal of Geophysical Research

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)

Other publications

1 Open BGS Report: '2013 Annual Review', BGS CR/14/16.

25 Commissioned Customer Reports (UK survey & OS; oil industry services)

96 Observatory Monthly Bulletins: https://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’

Geomagnetism Geohazard Briefing note https://www.bgs.ac.uk/downloads/start.cfm?id=2893 Contributions to BGS’s ‘GeoBlogy’ site:

* ‘Something’s happening to Magnetic North in Great Britain’, by Susan Macmillan: https://britgeopeople.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/somethings-happening-to-magnetic-north.html
* “The geomagnetic storm that wasn’t....” by Gemma Kelly: https://britgeopeople.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/the-geomagnetic-storm-that-wasnt-by-dr.html
* Aurora Borealis goes (Geo) Social... by Emma Bee https://britgeopeople.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/aurora-borealis-goes-geo-social-by-emma.html
The Geomagnetism team taking part in meetings, events and presentations at the 11th European Space Weather Week in Belgium.

Conference presentations, posters and related activities

RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting: ‘Geomagnetic field dynamics and structure on timescales from minutes to decades’, London, UK, January

3 posters

The STFC supported ‘SEREN’ Workshop on Geomagnetically Induced Currents, Edinburgh, UK, March

4 Presentations (Thomson, Beggan, Kelly, Clarke)

RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting: ‘UK-SEDI: The frontiers of deep Earth research’, London, UK, March

1 poster

EGU, Vienna, Austria, April

2 Presentations (Beggan, Ridley)
1 Poster

Hot Spring MIST, Bath, UK, April

3 posters

Geomagnetism Advisory Group annual meeting, Edinburgh, May

6 presentations (Macmillan & Billingham, Dawson, Kelly, Swan, Ridley, Thomson)

Swarm CAL/VAL workshop & ESA Swarm Science meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, June

2 presentations (Macmillan, Ridley)
4 posters

IAGA Observatories Workshop, Hyderabad, India, October

2 talks (Swan, Thomson)
2 posters

The Geological Society of America meeting, Vancouver, Canada, October

1 presentation (Bee)
1 poster

ISCWSA (SPE wellbore positioning) meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October

1 presentation (Macmillan & Billingham)

European Space Weather Week 11, Liege, Belgium, November

1 presentation (Clarke)
5 posters

Presentation of ‘Live Forecast’ & Attendance at various ‘splinter meetings’ 4th Swarm Data Quality Workshop, Potsdam, December

1 presentation (Thomson) AGU, San Francisco, USA, December
3 posters

Geomagnetism Team seminars, Edinburgh

16 presentations throughout the year by team members, students and visitors

Some other notable outputs

Outreach events linked with the observatories

In conjunction with the Met Office, BGS Geomagnetism Team participated in the Dumfries & Galloway Day of the Region 2014 and the opening of the Eskdalemuir Community Hub by providing guided tours of Eskdalemuir Observatory.
Several other observatory tours at Eskdalemuir & Hartland were also given to members of the public, such as those for the University of Edinburgh Innovative Learning week.
A one day seminar on global geomagnetic modelling was held at Hartland Observatory for staff from the UK Hydrographic Office.
The UK observatories were also used as resources in collaborative art & science projects with students from University of the Arts London and the Royal College of Art.

Edinburgh University Undergraduate lecture series (September 2013 – April 2014)

4th Year Honours Course on ‘Geomagnetism’, by Ciaran Beggan & Gemma Kelly (8 lectures)
3rd year Geophysics course on Earth and Planetary Structure by Ciaran Beggan, & B. Baptie (14 lectures)
3rd year Geophysics course on Geophysical Techniques for Terrestrial Environmental Applications by Ciaran Beggan and Victoria Ridley (10 lectures, 3 labs, fieldwork)

Public lectures, presentations and demonstrations

BGS Edinburgh Open Day (Geomagnetism Team), the ‘Bang Goes the Borders’ public science event (Kelly and Ridley), ‘Science Uncovered’ event at the Natural History Museum, London, Physics ‘Lab in a Lorry’ (Billingham: https://www.labinalorry.org.uk/)
Gemma Kelly gave a talk at the Earth System science spring school in Lancaster in April about geomagnetism and Space weather,
Ciaran Beggan gave a talk titled “Solar storms and the Earth's magnetic field” on10 Sep 2014 to Falkirk Astronomical Association
Ted Harris participated at British Science Week & Rockwatch Family Fun Day at Keyworth

Work experience placements

Over the course of the year Ted Harris organised and coordinated 21 School Work Experience Placements within BGS Edinburgh. Students came from schools in Scotland, England and as far as Paris each spending a week in Murchison House.

Geomagnetic disturbance alerts

7 Geomagnetic Disturbance Alerts emailed to over 3000 subscribers. 50% growth in subscriber numbers.

World model & reference field
World Geomagnetic Model 2015 produced & distributed to User Group

Collaborator on the 12th Generation of the International Geomagnetic Reference Field

Press & media
Mentions in the press (quoting from our aurora alerts or twitter forecasts) during space weather events in January, February, December

Space Weather YouTube video https://youtu.be/Go4x6QWLdRw

Beggan, C. and Shanahan, T., Planet Earth Online podcast 'Unravelling the intricacies of Earth's magnetic field', https://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/multimedia/audio/warm.mp3, 7 January 2014

BGS school magnetometer
Raspberry Pi Magnetometer: STFC Public Engagement Grant awarded to produce 10 three-component magnetometers for schools

Sarah Reay’s YouTube presentation 'Space Weather'.
Prototype 3-Component Fluxgate sensor for the School Magnetometer.
Geomagnetism on Social Media.