by Hanna Sathiapal | May 12, 2016 | Public Engagement
Public activities Several FLARECAST partners contributed to public activities related to the transit of Mercury on May 9th. CNRS (Meudon), TCD (Dublin), PSUD (Orsay) and FHNW (Windisch) set up telescopes and screens for public observation and provided information on...
by Hanna Sathiapal | Apr 29, 2016 | Public Engagement
Recently, we did live space weather forecasting at our local natural history museum during a science fair. Scientific organizations presented many different kinds of activities, and people of all ages walked around, stopping where something attracted their interest....
by Sophie Murray | Dec 22, 2015 | Public Engagement
The UK has been very excited of late about a certain astronaut taking his first steps onto the International Space Station. Tim Peake is the first British ESA astronaut, and he and his team launched into space on Tuesday 15th December on a Russian Soyuz rocket. A lot...
by Hanna Sathiapal | Nov 26, 2015 | Public Engagement
Just a bit over a week after the terrorist attacks in Paris, the ESWW12 took place as planned. Fortunately, not too many people had cancelled their participation. Governments of different coutries had issued very different travel recommendations, ranging from no...
by Sophie Murray | Oct 9, 2015 | Public Engagement
The Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre (MOSWOC) is one year old! Although MOSWOC forecasters had been producing space weather guidance for the past few years, the centre was officially opened by the UK’s Minister of State for Universities, Science and...
by Sophie Murray | Sep 24, 2015 | Public Engagement, Uncategorized
There has been plenty of activity with Sunspotter this year amongst other FLARECAST consortium members. Dr Shaun Bloomfield at Trinity College Dublin and Dr Sophie Murray at the Met Office are both members of the Sunspotter Science Team. Trinity College Dublin has...