Dr Ciaran Beggan

Ciaran Beggan’s Biography

• 1999 – BSc University College, Dublin, Geology
• 2000 – MSc University of Edinburgh, Remote Sensing and Image Processing
• 2001 – Systems Engineer, Selex Airborne Sensors
• 2004 – MSc University of Heriot Watt, Applied Mathematics
• 2009 – ongoing:Geophysicist
• 2009 – PhD University of Edinburgh, Geophysics

ORCID:

0000-0002-2298-0

Research interests

• Geomagnetism: Core Field and lithospheric modelling
• Geomagnetism: Space weather risk and impacts, Geomagnetically Induced Currents

Current projects and collaborations

• 2017 – 2021: NERC Hightlight Topic: Space Weather Impacts on Grounded Structures (SWIGS)
• Interpolation In-Field Reference (IIFR)
• 2016 – Raspberry Pi Magnetometer
• High Frequency Induction Coils

Publications

NERC Open Research Archive — Ciaran Beggan

Key papers

Beggan C D, Billingham, L, and E Clarke. 2018. Estimating external magnetic field differences at high geomagnetic latitudes from a single station, Geophysical Prospecting , doi:10.1111/1365-2478.12641
Beggan C D, and Musur, M. 2018. Observation of Ionospheric Alfvén Resonances at 1–30 Hz and their superposition with the Schumann Resonances, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 123, 4202–4214, doi:10.1029/2018JA025264
Beggan, C D and Marple, S R. 2018. Building a Raspberry Pi school magnetometer network in the UK, Geosci. Commun., 1, 25-34, doi:10.5194/gc-1-25-2018
Beggan, C D and Whaler, K A. 2018. Ensemble Kalman Filter Analysis of Magnetic Field Models during the CHAMP-Swarm gap, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors , doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2018.06.002
Kelly, G S, Viljanen, A, Beggan, C D and Thomson, A W P. 2017. Understanding GIC in the UK and French High Voltage Transmission Systems During Severe Magnetic Storms, Space Weather , doi:10.1002/2016SW001469
Smith, A R A, Beggan, C D, Macmillan, S and Whaler, K A. 2017. Climatology of the auroral electrojets derived from the along-track gradient of magnetic field intensity measured by POGO, Magsat, CHAMP, and Swarm. Space Weather , doi:10.1002/2017SW001675
Blake, S P, Gallagher, P T, McCauley, J, Jones, A G, Hogg, C, Campanya, J, Beggan, C D, Thomson, A W P, Kelly, G S and Bell, D. 2016. Geomagnetically Induced Currents in the Irish Power Network during Geomagnetic Storms, Space Weather , doi:10.1002/2016SW001534

Skills

• Geophysical / computational modelling
• Programming: Matlab, Python, FORTRAN

Professional associations

• Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)