Audio and Video
2016 Minnesota Public Radio 2015 I use EarthScope data 2013 USGS Hazards: Geomagnetic Storms
News Media
2024 The New Yorker: What a major solar storm could do to our planet
2023 E&ENews: NOAA warns of grid risks amid powerful solar storm Spaceweather.com: The great solar storm of March 1940
2022 EarthSky: Geomagnetic storms: Will you lose power where you live? Interesting Engineering: The next “big one” Patagonia Regional Times: Space Weather Threats San Francisco Chronicle: Could we forecast earthquakes like weather? Spaceweather.com: Mapping a magnetic superstorm
2021 American Radio Relay League (ARRL): A “perfect coronal mass ejection” could be a nightmare Astronomy Magazine: Understanding just how big solar flares can get Futura Sciences: Comment une bombe nucléaire a ébranlé le champ magnétique terrestre dans les années 1960 IEEE Spectrum: One Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion Could Take Out the Power Grid Knowable Magazine: Are we ready? Understanding just how big solar flares can get Peraton Weather: The greatest geomagnetic storm of the 20th century Spaceweather.com: What if … A perfect CME hit Earth? Spaceweather.com: The chance of storms just doubled Spaceweather.com: A timeline of great aurora storms Spaceweather.com: 100 Years Later: The great geomagnetic gtorm of May 1921 Spaceweather.com: Nuclear bombs can cause geomagnetic storms Syfy Wire: Bad Astronomy: A solar flare in 774 AD Tendencias: Las bombas nucleares pueden causar tormentas geomagnéticas The Independent: The world is not yet ready to overcome a once-in-a-century solar superstorm USGS: Complexities of geology affect nuclear electromagnetic pulse hazard
2020 E&ENews: Federal study warns of solar storm threat to U.S. grid Gizmodo: Where the U.S. power grid would be hit worst by a solar storm IEEE Spectrum: Here are the U.S. regions most vulnerable to solar storms Meteored Tiempo.com (Spain): La gran tormenta geomagnética de mayo de 1921 Physics World: New map pinpoints US power lines susceptible to space weather super-storms RealClimate: Why are so many solar-climate papers flawed? Spaceweather.com: Where the power goes out Spaceweather.com: The great geomagnetic storm of May 1921
2019 Evenimentul Zilei (Romania):
2018 Bloomberg News: Rocks under I-95 present odd, and scary, threat to power grid Earth.com: Cities face threat of blackout EurekAlert!: New 3-D measurements GRL: Mapping extreme-value geoelectric fields Spokesman-Review: Newport Geophysical Observatory USGS: Improving understanding of geomagnetic storm hazards USGS: Electric storm of 1882 USGS: Keeping the lights on in North America
2017 Earth Magazine: Mapping geoelectric hazards Las Vegas Review-Journal: Magnetic shifts and airport Space Weather: Improved prediction of geoelectric fields USGS: Preparing for intense space weather Washington Post: Presidential budget
2016 Business Insider: 100-year storm Der Spiegel (Germany): Die taghelle Kriegsnacht von 1941 Duluth News Herald: Northland nexus between Earth, space EarthScope: Magnetic meeting of space and Earth Eos: Mapping geoelectric hazards Minnesota Post: Space weather presents risk Nature: Surveillance of crippling solar storms Nature: Tiny spacecraft Popular Science: Mapping response to space weather Science: Space storms could crash Midwest’s power grid USGS: Mapping a space-weather menace USGS: Down to Earth with space hazards
2015 Fox News: Compasses thrown off by changes in Earth’s magnetic field Science: Can electric signals predict earthquakes? USGS: Painting pays tribute to Civil War USGS: Simmering geomagnetic storm
2014 Bloomberg News: Springsteen had a point Businessweek: The coming megastorm
2013 AGU GeoSpace: Sunspots and the price of wheat Hörzu Wissen (Germany): Katastrophen Kalender San Jose Mercury News: Magnetic shift and airport Universe Today: Sun doesn’t cause earthquakes
2012 Der Spiegel (Germany): Forscher entdecken Katastrophen-Rhythmus EETimes: Ring of fire GRL: Unusual nature of recent solar minimum Ilta Sanomat (Finland): Auringonpilkkujen minimijakso ällistytti tutkijoita Popular Mechanics: The end of the world
2011 Barron’s: A magnet for stocks? Nature: Magnetic south pole NBC News: Magnetic shifts and airport
2010 AAPG Explorer: Geohazards lurk in familiar places
2008 Scientific American: The Earth has more than one north pole
2007 Nature: Geophysicists combine forces
2005 Anchorage Daily News: Shifting northern lights UPI: Alaska may lose northern lights