Name: Dr Tadhg Garton
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
E-mail: tgarton@cp.dias
Address: School of Cosmic Physics, DIAS Dunsink Observatory, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin 15, Ireland.
Research Interests:
Studies of the Sun and its effects on the planets
- Coronal hole and solar wind impact on planetary bodies
- Magnetospheric dynamics and magnetic reconnection events
- Computer vision and machine learning methods of identification and classification.
Biography:
Tadhg’s research interests are focused on the space weather link between the Sun and planetary environments in the solar system. After finishing an undergraduate degree in Physics and Astrophysics, Tadhg began work for his PhD on a solar coronal hole segmentation algorithm named ‘CHIMERA’, which identifies and extracts coronal hole boundaries and properties. This algorithm is run real-time on the solarmonitor.org/chimera website. Tadhg then focused his work on linking the properties of these coronal holes with the properties of the solar wind to build a predictive model for recurring space weather storms. He then focused on creating a machine learning algorithm to identify signals of planetary magnetic reconnection at Saturn across the 13 year lifespan of the Cassini satellite, followed by a statistcal analysis of reconnection to estimate the plasma mass loss rate of Saturn’s magnetosphere. He now works as part of Prof Jackman’s Planetary Magnetospheres group at DIAS researching magnetospheric dynamics and boundaries at Mercury.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3031-2991
Funding: IRC Enterprise Partnership
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Posted: 24th July 2019 by Anne Grace
Dr Tadhg Garton
Name: Dr Tadhg Garton
Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
E-mail: tgarton@cp.dias
Address: School of Cosmic Physics, DIAS Dunsink Observatory, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin 15, Ireland.
Research Interests:
Studies of the Sun and its effects on the planets
Biography:
Tadhg’s research interests are focused on the space weather link between the Sun and planetary environments in the solar system. After finishing an undergraduate degree in Physics and Astrophysics, Tadhg began work for his PhD on a solar coronal hole segmentation algorithm named ‘CHIMERA’, which identifies and extracts coronal hole boundaries and properties. This algorithm is run real-time on the solarmonitor.org/chimera website. Tadhg then focused his work on linking the properties of these coronal holes with the properties of the solar wind to build a predictive model for recurring space weather storms. He then focused on creating a machine learning algorithm to identify signals of planetary magnetic reconnection at Saturn across the 13 year lifespan of the Cassini satellite, followed by a statistcal analysis of reconnection to estimate the plasma mass loss rate of Saturn’s magnetosphere. He now works as part of Prof Jackman’s Planetary Magnetospheres group at DIAS researching magnetospheric dynamics and boundaries at Mercury.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3031-2991
Funding: IRC Enterprise Partnership
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