Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

AGATA: Advancing Polar Science through Multi-Instrument Integration and Collaboration

Authored by Lucilla Alfonsi, Wojciech J. Miloch, and Shreedevi P. R., and edited by Liliana Macotella March 11, 2025

Scientific research has long recognized that solar-terrestrial interactions play a crucial role in shaping the polar atmosphere, impacting both climate dynamics and atmospheric coupling across different layers. Understanding these interactions is key to unraveling their far-reaching effects on Earth’s climate, space weather, and global atmospheric processes. The recognition of these critical proce ...[Read More]

Chasing solar storms as an early career scientist

authored by Erika Palmerio, edited by Luke Barnard November 29, 2019

Hello! My name is Erika Palmerio and I am a newly qualified Dr in space physics from the University of Helsinki, Finland. In this blog post I will talk about my PhD research and my future career plans. The title of my PhD dissertation is “Magnetic structure and geoeffectiveness of coronal mass ejections”. Coronal mass ejections (or CMEs) are huge and spectacular clouds of magnetic field and plasma ...[Read More]

Miho Janvier – The Quest for Solar Storms

Athanasios Papaioannou September 15, 2017

A snapshot of the Sun as this is revealed by SDO (Credit: SDO)

In this month’s (first ever for our blog) Life of a Scientist interview, we are very happy to talk to Dr Miho Janvier, a Researcher at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay (France), whose work has shed some light on the understanding of solar eruptions and coronal mass ejections (or solar storms) from their birth in the Sun’s corona to their evolution in interplanetary space ...[Read More]