In mid-November Craig and Daniel Mac Manus left Dunedin to travel to Europe. The main focus of the trip was the 19th European Space Weather Week (ESWW2023) which occurred in Toulouse, France. Craig and Daniel both presented posters – Craig’s on the Solar Tsunamis research project, and Daniel on GIC mitigation. Solar Tsunamis research team members Mark Clilverd, Andrew Lapthorn, Tim Divett, Mikhail Kruglyakov and Kristin Pratscher also presented either in person or online, and the GIC session was very strong.
Above: Daniel Mac Manus, Mark Clilverd and Craig Rodger at ESWW2023
Below: Craig in Toulouse
See below for a list of the team’s presentations at ESWW2023:
| Oral presentation | Clilverd, Mark, Neil Cobbett, James Brundell, Michael Dalzell, Andrew Lapthorn, Stewart Hardie, Paul Agger, et al. “Very Low Frequency Observations During an Active DC Injection Campaign That Simulated Geomagnetic Storm Effects on High Voltage Transformers.” |
| Oral presentation | Divett, T., M. Ingham, M. Sigley, and C. J. Rodger. “Modelling Pipe to Soil Potentials and GICs in New Zealandʼs Gas Pipelines.” |
| Oral presentation | Marshalko, Elena, Alexey Kuvshinov, Maxim Smirnov, Ari Viljanen, and Mikhail Kruglyakov. “Multi-Site Transfer Function Approach for Real-Time Modeling of the Ground Electric Field Induced by the Laterally-Nonuniform Ionospheric Source.” |
| Online presentation | Lapthorn, Andrew, Stewart Hardie, Soren Subritzky, Michael Dalzell, Mark Clilverd, Neil Cobbett, Ciarán Beggan, et al. “An Overview of the Unique DC Injection Campaign for Replicating GICs on High Voltage Transformers in New Zealand.” |
| Online presentation | Pratscher, K., M. Ingham, W. Heise, T. Bertrand, C. Rodger, D. Mac Manus, M. Dalzell, and T. Petersen. “Measured vs. Modeled Transformer Storm Responses in South Island, New Zealand.” |
| Poster | Mac Manus, D. H., C. J. Rodger, A. Renton, J. Ronald, D. Harper, C. Taylor, M. Dalzell, T. Divett, and G. Richardson. “Working with Industry to Develop New Operational Procedures.” |
| Poster | Rodger, C. J., D. H. Mac Manus, M. Dalzell, A. Renton, J. Barder, M. A. Clilverd, T. Divett, et al. “Geomagnetically Induced Current Research in New Zealand: The Solar Tsunamis Research Programme.” |
| Poster | Smith, A. W., C. J. Rodger, D. H. Mac Manus, C. Forsyth, I. J. Rae, P. Fisher, T. Petersen, and M. Dalzell. “Sudden Commencements and Induced Currents: National Variability and Vulnerability in New Zealand.” |
