Solar System Consolidated Grant 2022-25
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Mullard Space Science Laboratory
Abstract
The aim of this Consolidated Grant application is to deliver a programme of solar system science research directly addressing sub-topics related to STFC's Science Challenge B: 'How do stars and planetary systems develop and how do they support the existence of life?' These include: B1 - How does the Sun and other stars work and what drives their variability? B2 - What effects do the Sun and other stars have on their local environment? B4 - What are the conditions for life and how widespread are they? and B6 - What are the processes that drive space weather? Our research focuses not only on the elements that comprise the solar system, but also the interactions between them (examples of this being the solar wind and its influence on magnetospheres and unmagnetised objects, the Saturn system, and predictability of space weather effects).
Organisations
- University College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Arizona (Collaboration)
- International Space Science Institute (ISSI) (Collaboration)
- University of Cologne (Collaboration)
- University of California, Berkeley (Collaboration)
- University of New Hampshire (Collaboration)
- HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- University of Delaware (Collaboration)
- Johns Hopkins University (Collaboration)
- Peking University (Collaboration)
Publications
Abraham J
(2022)
Thermal Energy Budget of Electrons in the Inner Heliosphere: Parker Solar Probe Observations
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abraham J
(2022)
Radial Evolution of Thermal and Suprathermal Electron Populations in the Slow Solar Wind from 0.13 to 0.5 au: Parker Solar Probe Observations
in The Astrophysical Journal
Afghan Q
(2023)
Observations of a dust tail gap in comet C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS)
in Icarus
Agudelo Rueda J
(2022)
Agyrotropy patterns in 3D small-scall turbulent reconnection
Agudelo Rueda J
(2022)
Energy Transport during 3D Small-scale Reconnection Driven by Anisotropic Plasma Turbulence
in The Astrophysical Journal
Aizawa S
(2022)
LatHyS global hybrid simulation of the BepiColombo second Venus flyby
in Planetary and Space Science
Altyntsev A
(2023)
Temporal and spatial association between microwaves and type III bursts in the upper corona
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
De Marco R
(2023)
Innovative technique for separating proton core, proton beam, and alpha particles in solar wind 3D velocity distribution functions
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Dimmock A
(2022)
Mirror mode storms observed by Solar Orbiter
| Description | Multi-scale Electrostatic Energisation of Plasmas: Comparison of Collective Processes in Laboratory and Space |
| Amount | £11,820 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | IEC\R2\222050 |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | Multi-scale electrostatic energisation of plasmas: comparison of collective processes in laboratory and space |
| Amount | £11,820 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2022 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Title | SWA data available from the Solar Orbiter Archive. |
| Description | All data taken by the SWA instrument on Solar Orbiter, available within the archive from 90 days of receipt on ground. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Critical dataset for the achievement of the top level goals of the Solar Orbiter mission. |
| URL | http://soar.esac.esa.int/soar/ |
| Description | ALPS |
| Organisation | Harvard University |
| Department | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Daniel Verscharen has led the proposal preparation of the ALPS proposal to NASA before his STFC fellowship began, and he is still the ALPS project manager. He has programmed the ALPS code in close partnership with Kris Klein from the University of Arizona. He also led the official code paper published in 2018 and the extension of the network of collaborators to include the Universities of Cologne and Helsinki. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The colleagues from New Hampshire, Arizona, Berkeley, and Harvard have supported the code development and the preparation of the code paper in Journal of Plasma Physics. Colleagues from Berkeley and Harvard have supplied space-plasma data to analyse with the ALPS code, and related papers are currently under preparation. The colleagues from Cologne have motivated future studies of relativistic electron physics in Jupiter's magnetosphere based on Juno spacecraft data. |
| Impact | The ALPS code paper was published in 2018 (doi: 10.1017/S0022377818000739). |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | ALPS |
| Organisation | University of Arizona |
| Department | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Daniel Verscharen has led the proposal preparation of the ALPS proposal to NASA before his STFC fellowship began, and he is still the ALPS project manager. He has programmed the ALPS code in close partnership with Kris Klein from the University of Arizona. He also led the official code paper published in 2018 and the extension of the network of collaborators to include the Universities of Cologne and Helsinki. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The colleagues from New Hampshire, Arizona, Berkeley, and Harvard have supported the code development and the preparation of the code paper in Journal of Plasma Physics. Colleagues from Berkeley and Harvard have supplied space-plasma data to analyse with the ALPS code, and related papers are currently under preparation. The colleagues from Cologne have motivated future studies of relativistic electron physics in Jupiter's magnetosphere based on Juno spacecraft data. |
| Impact | The ALPS code paper was published in 2018 (doi: 10.1017/S0022377818000739). |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | ALPS |
| Organisation | University of California, Berkeley |
| Department | Space Sciences Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Daniel Verscharen has led the proposal preparation of the ALPS proposal to NASA before his STFC fellowship began, and he is still the ALPS project manager. He has programmed the ALPS code in close partnership with Kris Klein from the University of Arizona. He also led the official code paper published in 2018 and the extension of the network of collaborators to include the Universities of Cologne and Helsinki. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The colleagues from New Hampshire, Arizona, Berkeley, and Harvard have supported the code development and the preparation of the code paper in Journal of Plasma Physics. Colleagues from Berkeley and Harvard have supplied space-plasma data to analyse with the ALPS code, and related papers are currently under preparation. The colleagues from Cologne have motivated future studies of relativistic electron physics in Jupiter's magnetosphere based on Juno spacecraft data. |
| Impact | The ALPS code paper was published in 2018 (doi: 10.1017/S0022377818000739). |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | ALPS |
| Organisation | University of Cologne |
| Department | Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Daniel Verscharen has led the proposal preparation of the ALPS proposal to NASA before his STFC fellowship began, and he is still the ALPS project manager. He has programmed the ALPS code in close partnership with Kris Klein from the University of Arizona. He also led the official code paper published in 2018 and the extension of the network of collaborators to include the Universities of Cologne and Helsinki. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The colleagues from New Hampshire, Arizona, Berkeley, and Harvard have supported the code development and the preparation of the code paper in Journal of Plasma Physics. Colleagues from Berkeley and Harvard have supplied space-plasma data to analyse with the ALPS code, and related papers are currently under preparation. The colleagues from Cologne have motivated future studies of relativistic electron physics in Jupiter's magnetosphere based on Juno spacecraft data. |
| Impact | The ALPS code paper was published in 2018 (doi: 10.1017/S0022377818000739). |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | ALPS |
| Organisation | University of New Hampshire |
| Department | Space Science Center |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Daniel Verscharen has led the proposal preparation of the ALPS proposal to NASA before his STFC fellowship began, and he is still the ALPS project manager. He has programmed the ALPS code in close partnership with Kris Klein from the University of Arizona. He also led the official code paper published in 2018 and the extension of the network of collaborators to include the Universities of Cologne and Helsinki. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The colleagues from New Hampshire, Arizona, Berkeley, and Harvard have supported the code development and the preparation of the code paper in Journal of Plasma Physics. Colleagues from Berkeley and Harvard have supplied space-plasma data to analyse with the ALPS code, and related papers are currently under preparation. The colleagues from Cologne have motivated future studies of relativistic electron physics in Jupiter's magnetosphere based on Juno spacecraft data. |
| Impact | The ALPS code paper was published in 2018 (doi: 10.1017/S0022377818000739). |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | HelioDISC: The Heliospheric Distributed In-situ Constellation |
| Organisation | Johns Hopkins University |
| Department | Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Daniel Verscharen supported the HelioDISC team in the preparation of their mission proposal. His scientific expertise was required, especially, in the development of science objectives regarding turbulence in the solar wind and the flow-down of requirements. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The mission team organised regular virtual meetings, in which the mission was discussed. The team also met for a week-long co-engineering exercise (ACE run) in early 2022. |
| Impact | The collaboration submitted a pre-study report to NASA. APL selected this concept for an ACE-run, for which reports are in preparation. This collaboration includes scientists from various fields of heliophysics (solar wind, energetic particles, eruptive events) and space engineers. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Helioswarm |
| Organisation | University of New Hampshire |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Daniel Verscharen is a member of the Helioswarm Theory Working Group. He supported the writing of the proposal case and the science discussions during the mission planning. Helioswarm has been selected by NASA in February 2022. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The mission development is led by the University of New Hampshire. Helioswarm is a large international collaboration with many layers of contributions to the overall project, including scientific and technical expertise. |
| Impact | The Helioswarm collaboration includes experts from the fields of space plasma science and space engineering. The key output of this collaboration is the MIDEX mission that will record unprecedented multi-point data of the turbulence in the solar wind. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | ISSI Team: Exploring The Solar Wind In Regions Closer Than Ever Observed Before |
| Organisation | International Space Science Institute (ISSI) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As a member of this ISSI team, Daniel Verscharen participated in the first team meeting in January 2020 and in online meetings since the beginning of the pandemic. The participants of this meeting discussed the connectivity between Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, and other space-based and ground-based solar-physics assets. Daniel Verscharen has actively contributed with publications related to this ISSI team. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners in this collaboration explored a series of six top-level research papers that the team are currently working on. The team consists of experts from the theoretical, numerical, and observational side, so that the team successfully brought together all of this expertise. |
| Impact | Daniel Verscharen has already published two research articles from this collaboration. Further research publications are currently in preparation. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | ISSI Team: Heliospheric energy budget: from kinetic scales to global solar wind dynamics |
| Organisation | International Space Science Institute (ISSI) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The first meeting of this ISSI team happened in November 2021. The participants discussed topics of kinetic electron physics in the solar wind and how these small-scale processes affect the global evolution of the plasmas. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The experts in the simulation and observation of space plasmas contributed to the development of ideas for interdisciplinary and high-impact publications about the kinetic physics of the solar wind. |
| Impact | The ISSI team members are currently working on a list of multiple publications. Daniel Verscharen is involved in most of them directly. Two papers with attribution to this ISSI team have already been published. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | MagneToRE |
| Organisation | University of Delaware |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Daniel Verscharen is a co-investigator of the MagneToRE mission proposal, which is currently in preparation. He has supported the definition of the science case and the science implementation work for the MagneToRE mission. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The MagneToRE mission team consists of experts from multiple European and US research institutions with a broad experience in scientific and engineering work related to space-plasma missions. |
| Impact | The MagneToRE team have submitted a pre-proposal to APL and a mission description paper. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Peking University (PKU) |
| Organisation | Peking University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Daniel Verscharen has contributed to the writing of multiple papers with the colleagues from PKU. In addition, he supervised a visiting student (Honghong Wu) from Peking who visited UCL for one year from 2017 until 2018. He helped Honghong in acquiring funding from the prestigious Chinese government scholarship programme for this visit. He also advised the PKU group in the use of the NHDS code for scientific calculations of plasma waves and their polarisation properties. The collaboration is currently working on fostering this partnership by securing funding for mutual visits and further publications in the future. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Honghong Wu has worked actively with Daniel Verscharen and the MSSL space-plasma group during her visit to UCL. This has resulted in two papers in international journals. Jiansen He and Die Duan from PKU have brought additional expertise in the collaboration from their background of observing waves and turbulence in the solar wind and in the magnetosheath. |
| Impact | This collaboration has resulted in five publications so far (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaef77, 10.3847/1538-4357/aad9aa, 10.3847/1538-4357/ab1be7, 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2a79), multiple conference presentations, and the preparation of a future publication (currently under review). |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | BBC R4 Today - Space |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview on BBC R4 Today, on UK's successful space sector, in industry & academia (07:21 UT, including Rosalind Franklin), 4 January 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gk5x |
| Description | BBC Radio Surrey - space |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview on BBC Radio Surrey, on UK's successful space sector, in industry & academia (from 2h41), including Rosalind Franklin), and work of UCL-MSSL, 5 January 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0dp54yf |
| Description | BBC Radio Surrey - space |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview on BBC Radio Surrey, on Cornwall space launch outcome, implications and UK space sector, 10 January 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | CPS Mars event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk 'Looking for Life on Mars with Rosalind Franklin', part of UCL-Birkbeck Centre for Planetary Sciences 'Adventures in Planetary Science' 'Is there life on Mars?' event, 15 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/planetary-sciences/events/2022/sep/adventures-planetary-science-there-life-mar... |
| Description | Engineering panel for ESERO UK Mars day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Chaired panel on Engineering in Space, for ESERO-UK Mars day, 7 March 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mars-day-2023-tickets-435634964907?aff=ebdssbdestsearch |
| Description | Guardian, Venus interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview for the Guardian on Venus exploration, Target Venus not Mars for first crewed mission to another planet, experts say, 23 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/sep/25/target-venus-not-mars-for-first-crewed-mission-to-an... |
| Description | Horizon group foresight interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview for foresight project on 'Disruption, Transformation and Resilience' by Horizon Group, 20 February 2023 (included Rosalind Franklin, JUICE) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Interview for International Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Alex James was interviewed about being one of the 25 listed rising stars in Astronomy. Inspirational article reached all subscribers in 2022 and was published online in 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://astronomy.com/magazine/news/2023/02/rising-star-in-astronomy-alexander-james |
| Description | Interview for Mail online |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Info for Mail online, on life in our solar system and beyond, What COULD aliens look like? Forget little green men - life on distant exoplanets may resemble HUMANS, experts say, Mail online, 25 Feb 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11772799/What-aliens-look-like-Forget-little-green-m... |
| Description | Invited keynote lectures on the future of space science at Salzburger Hochschulwochen, Austria |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Two talks at an interdisciplinary summer school in Salzburg, Austria, about the future of space science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | LIYSF visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Introduction to MSSL - London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) visit, 2 August 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Lecture on Mars Express for ESERO Mars Week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Land on a lecture: 20 Years of Mars Express - Land on a Lecture for ESERO-UK Mars Week 2023, 8 Mar 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/20-years-of-mars-express-land-on-a-lecture-for-mars-week-2023-tickets... |
| Description | Mail online - life in solar system |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Info for Mail online on Where could aliens exist in our solar system?, 21 Feb 2023 (included Rosalind Franklin, JUICE) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11775109/Where-aliens-exist-solar-system.html |
| Description | Newsweek Mars interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview for Newsweek on rover design NASA-China Mars Rover Controversy: Why Robot Designs Are Similar, 4 November 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.newsweek.com/china-space-agency-nasa-copying-rover-design-mars-1756887 |
| Description | Open day talk - Rosalind Franklin mission |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk on Looking for life on Mars with the Rosalind Franklin rover for UCL-MSSL Mars open day, 8 March 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mars-open-evening-at-the-mullard-space-science-laboratory-tickets-516... |
| Description | Press release "How magnetic waves interact with Earth's bubble" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Press release about publication on foreshock waves. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/dec/how-magnetic-waves-interact-earths-bubble |
| Description | Press release "New study models transmission of foreshock waves towards Earth" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Press release by the University of Helsinki about publication on foreshock waves. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/space/new-study-models-transmission-foreshock-waves-towards-earth |
| Description | Press release "Transmission of foreshock waves through Earth's bow shock" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press release about publication on foreshock waves. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.issibern.ch/from-teams-earths-bow-shock/ |
| Description | Public presentations to schools, amateur astronomers, general public continuing to 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MSSL staff engagement activities always produce demonstrations of great interest from the number of questions and comments received. A point to note is that these activities continued, albeit at a reduced level, during the pandemic, using online connections. And more requests of talks and visits to schools are now arising post-pandemic with face-to-face opportunities always well received. Repeated visits and requests for talks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | http://mssl.ucl.ac.uk/SMILE/ |
| Description | Science News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Quote in Science news on Rosalind Franklin mission, Europe pledges to launch Mars rover delayed by war, 28 Nov 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.science.org/content/article/europe-pledges-launch-mars-rover-delayed-war |
| Description | Sky News interview, Artemis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview on Artemis mission on Sky News, 3 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk on Solar Orbiter to Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Informed members of the Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA) (in person and online) about our work with Solar Orbiter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk to Tubbenden School, Orpington |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 90 pupils from Tubbenden school listened to presentation and participated in activities aimed at widening their knowledge of space and understanding our work with Solar Orbiter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talks about space weather and solar physics on MS Queen Victoria |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In two talks on board MS Vitoria, Daniel Verscharen presented as a representative for the Royal Astronomical Society and UCL STFC-led research on the Sun and space weather. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The Conversation - Venus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on Venus: the trouble with sending people there, The Conversation, 29 September 2022. Over 50,000 readers, media followup |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/venus-the-trouble-with-sending-people-there-191534 |
| Description | UCL CPS debate Mars v Europa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Debate Mars Vs Europa! Which is the best place to search for life beyond Earth?, UCL-Birkbeck CPS for UK-ESERO Mars week, 9 March 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/planetary-sciences/events/2023/mar/mars-vs-europa-which-best-place-search-life... |
| Description | UCL Science Centre talk, Mars |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk for UCL Science Centre on Looking for life on Mars: the Rosalind Franklin rover, 25 Nov 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/physics-astronomy/outreach/science-centre-lectures |
| Description | Winds in our solar system talk, Finland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Coates, A.J., keynote 'Agora' talk on 'Winds in our Solar System', at Aboagora Symposium arts-science event, "Wind" https://aboagora.fi/programme/, Sibelius Museum, Turku, Finland, August 2022. Talk available online, 25 Oct 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiMn9Pgi7D7A... |