Welcome to our Summer Interns
A warm welcome to our SURE Interns for 2021, engaging in research from across the School of Physics and Astronomy. As announced in April, the School is supporting a number of undergraduates to join our research teams this summer, working on a diverse range of scientific projects. This programme is funded from several sources – […]
Strengthening the link in SMILE
Dr. Jenny Carter blogs about Leicester’s involvement in the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission, scheduled for launch in 2024. In 2024 the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) will launch and give us a novel view of how the solar wind impinges on the Earth’s magnetosphere and how the high-altitude atmosphere […]
PlanetarySeminar: Magnetopause surface eigenmodes: Theory, observations, and simulations.
At 14:00 on Wednesday May 26th, 2021, Dr Martin Archer from Imperial College London will be presenting a virtual seminar titled: “Magnetopause surface eigenmodes: Theory, observations, and simulations”. This seminar will be accessible via Teams. Abstract: “In physics, a common approach to understanding a dynamical system is to determine its normal modes. Planetary magnetospheres have […]
Dr Harjinder Sembhi on WomenInSTEM
Dr Harjinder Sembhi of Leicester’s Earth Observation Group writes about WomenInSTEM for the “Research Hot Topics” blog. I am a remote sensing scientist and I use data collected by satellites that look down at the Earth to understand changes to our climate and environment. The measurements made by these satellites are important because they help us monitor greenhouse gases and pollution, […]
Setting Up Greenhouse Gas and Air Quality Observations over London
Leicester scientist Neil Humpage helps to set up a new measurement site in northeast London, part of a ground-based remote sensing network to help understand the city’s air quality and carbon emissions. On Friday 23rd April, Dr Neil Humpage from the Earth Observation Science group travelled down to northeast London to help set up a […]
EO Detective in Lockdown
Catherine Fitzsimons, our NCEO Outreach Officer, describes the legacy of an outreach project from NCEO at the University of Leicester. In 2015–16 the National Centre for Earth Observation, based in the School of Physics and Astronomy, received outreach funding from the UK Space Agency to produce educational materials that would tie in to British ESA […]
Leicester graduate launches space career with NASA
Congratulations to Leicester PhD student Daniel Watters, a PhD student from Leicester’s Earth Observation Science Group, has been awarded a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, US. Daniel has studied at the University of Leicester since 2013. He first received an MPhys Physics with Astrophysics degree in July […]
Royal Aeronautical Engineering Society webinar: UK as a Global Space Power
The Royal Aeronautical Engineering Society is hosting a webinar with a panel including Leicester’s Professor John Remedios, discussing the UK as a global space power. Have you noticed the increasing presence of space in UK news? That’s not just because space is exciting (although it is!), it’s not just because the BBC loves space stories […]
The NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement mission
Leicester precipitation scientists Daniel Watters and Alessandro Battaglia outline how a NASA-JAXA mission addresses the challenge of global measurement of precipitation. Two precipitation scientists from Leicester’s Earth Observation Science Group have written a paper aimed at describing the NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission to a general audience (https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.3865). The Leicester scientists use the space-borne […]
Six Decades of Space Science
At the start of World Space Week, we’re marking 60 years of space science at the University of Leicester. Leicester has had a Physics Department since 1924, long before it gained University status. It was in 1957 – appropriately enough, the year that Sputnik 1 was launched – that Leicester University College was granted the […]
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