Links to a (probably updated) publication list, (probably outdated) CV and (only slowly changing) research interests can be found in the left-hand panel.
Recent news
Dec 2023: Congratulations to Anna Frost for passing her PhD viva. And thanks to Dr Robert Forsyth of Imperial College for acting as external examiner.
Sept 2023: Big congratulations to Lauren James for passing her PhD viva. And thanks to Dr Huw Morgan of Aberystwyth University for acting as external examiner.
July 2023: We received performed a survey of expert opinion on the risks and hazards of extreme space weather. Results are available here, with a journal article to follow.
June 2023: Our WSA-HUXt solar wind and CME forecasting scheme has been fully automated. A regularly updated forecast can be found here
Mar 2023: Ars Technica covered some of our work explaining how the Sun can't be the primary driver of climate change.
Oct 2022: ABC ran a story on some recent work modelling 14C variations in tree trunks to understand space weather over the last millenium.
Jul 2022: Version 4.0 of our python-based solar wind model, HUXt, has been released. Download it here. The conda environment should make getting it up and running painless. Loads of examples of what it can do here.
Mar 2022: More PhDs! Congrats to Dr Carl Haines and many thanks for examiners Dr Gemma Richardson and Prof. Chris Scott.
Dec 2021: And another... Huge congrats to Dr Shannon Jones for passing her PhD viva!
Sept 2021: Huge congrats to Dr Teo Bloch on passing his PhD viva.
Aug 2020: My review of The Solar Cycle for a non-specialist audience is available here.
Jun 2020: I recently wrote a short Commentary article about the value of CME arrival time predictions for space-weather forecasting. There's a write up here.
Oct 2019: I've added a data visualisation section to house some of the Warming Stripes animations I've been putting together.
Mar 2019: Weather Underground has reviewed the climate implications (or lack thereof) of reduced solar activity in the coming decade.
Feb 2017: Kim Tucker-Hood, my PhD student co-supervised with Prof. Chris Scott, has passed her viva, subject to minor thesis corrections. Huge congratulations to Kim!
Dr Anna Frost. Former PhD student, studying solar wind formation through in situ observations. Co-superivsed with Dr Allan Macneil and Prof Mike Lockwood.
Dr Lauren James. Former PhD student, studying the evolution of coronal mass ejections in the heliosphere. Co-supervised with Prof Chris Scott
Dr Allan Macneil Former PRDA, analysing solar wind electron observations of the inner heliosphere.
Dr Matthew Lang Former PRDA, developing data assimilation techniques for the solar wind.
Austin Jones Former PhD student, studying the link between thunderstorm activity and the ionosphere. Co-supervised with Prof Chris Scott
Dr Teo Bloch Former PhD student, applying machine learning to space physics problems. Co-supervised with Dr Clare Watt
Dr Carl Haines Former PhD student, characterising geomagnetic disturbances. In conjunction with EDF Energy.
Dr Bingkun Yu Working on lightning effects on the ionosphere
Dr Nachiketa Chakraborty Former PRDA, looking at causal inference problems in space weather science
Dr Shannon Jones Former PhD student, working on coronal mass ejections using Heliospheric Imager observations. Co-supervised with Prof Chris Scott
Dr Sarah Bentley Former PhD student, working on solar wind driving of magnetospheric wave power and its effects on the radiation belts. Co-supervised with Dr Clare Watt
Dr Mai Mai Lam Working on space-troposphere coupling and space influences on the global atmospheric electric circuit
Dr Adam El-Said Testing the "Enlil" solar wind model initialised with Heliospheric Imager data
Dr Kim Tucker-Hood Former PhD student, co-supervised with Dr Chris Davis and Prof David Jackson through a Met Office CASE award. Working on solar storm forecasting from heliospheric imager data
Dr Simon Thomas Former PhD student, analysing ground-based neutron monitor data
