Pretty Aurora & Dangerous Flares

Guest Speaker

Thursday, 5th December 2024 (19:45 - 22:00)

Venue: Meeting Room

Dr Maire Goreman talks about the 1859 Carrington event and the science behind how we might predict the next similar event. In 2012 the Earth missed a similar event by 9 days which had the potential to take out power and telecommunications infrastructure. Recovery would have taken 4 years and trillions of dollars.

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Speaker: Maire Gorman Dr

Dr Maire Gorman is a Lecturer in the Department of Physics at Sussex University, orginally from Aberdeen and grew up near Glasgow. She is a teaching-focussed lecturer in physics with a background in astrochemistry.