Academic CV

Publications

YEAR	AUTHORS	TITLE	JOURNAL	DOI
2021	Hayes, L., et al	Solar Flare Effects on the Earth’s Lower Ionosphere	Solar Physics	10.1007/s11207-021-01898-y
	Georgoulis, M. K., et al	The Flare Likelihood and Region Eruption Forecasting (FLARECAST) Project: Flare forecasting in the big data & machine learning era	Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate	10.1051/swsc/2021023
2020	Mumford, S., et al	SunPy: A Python package for Solar Physics	Journal of Open Source Software	10.21105/joss.01832
	Barnes, W. T., et al	The SunPy Project: Open Source Development and Status of the Version 1.0 Core Package	Astrophysical Journal	10.3847/1538-4357/ab4f7a
	Guerra, J. A., et al	Ensemble forecasting of major solar flares: methods for combining models	Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate	10.1051/swsc/2020042
	Guerra, J. A., et al	Meeting Report: The Use of Ensembles in Space Weather Forecasting	Space Weather	10.1029/2020SW002443
	Park, S.-H., et al	A Comparison of Flare Forecasting Methods. IV. Evaluating Consecutive-Day Forecasting Patterns	Astrophysical Journal	10.3847/1538-4357/ab65f0
2019	Bingham, S., et al	Summary of the plenary sessions at European Space Weather Week 15: space weather users and service providers working together now and in the future	Journal Space Weather Space Climate	10.1051/swsc/2019031
	Leka, K.D., et al	A Comparison of Flare Forecasting Methods. III. Systematic Behaviors of Operational Solar Flare Forecasting Systems	Astrophysical Journal	10.3847/1538-4357/ab2e11
	Leka, K.D., et al	A Comparison of Flare Forecasting Methods. II. Benchmarks, Metrics and Performance Results for Operational Solar Flare Forecasting Systems	Astrophysical Journal Supplemental Series	10.3847/1538-4365/ab2e12
	Halford, A. J., et al	Application Usability Levels: A Framework for Tracking Project Product Progress	Journal Space Weather Space Climate	10.1051/swsc/2019030
	Carley, E. P., et al	Loss-cone instability modulation due to a magnetohydrodynamic sausage mode oscillation in the solar corona	Nature Communications	10.1038/s41467-019-10204-1
	Morosan, D., et al	Multiple Regions of Shock Accelerated Particles during a Solar Coronal Mass Ejection	Nature Astronomy	10.1038/s41550-019-0689-z
2018	Garton, T. M., et al	Expansion of High Speed Solar Wind Streams From Coronal Holes Through the Inner Heliosphere	Astrophysical Journal Letters	10.3847/2041-8213/aaf39a
	Murray, S. A.	The Importance of Ensemble Techniques for Operational Space Weather Forecasting	Space Weather (Invited Commentary)	10.1029/2018sw001861
	Murray, S. A., et al	Connecting Coronal Mass Ejections to their Solar Active Region Sources: Combining Results from the HELCATS and FLARECAST Projects	Solar Physics	10.1007/s11207-018-1287-4
	Garton, T. M., et al	Automated Coronal Hole Identification via Multi-Thermal Intensity Segmentation	Journal Space Weather Space Climate	10.1051/swsc/2017039
2017	Sharpe, M. A., Murray, S. A.	Verification of Space Weather Forecasts issued by the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre	Space Weather (Editorial Highlight)	10.1002/2017SW001683
	Murray, S. A., et al	Flare forecasting at the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre	Space Weather	10.1002/2016SW001579
2015	Murray, S. A., et al	Assessing the performance of thermospheric modelling with data assimilation throughout solar cycles 23 and 24	Space Weather	10.1002/2015SW001163
2014	Murray, S. A.	Space Weather: the Importance of Observations, RMS Meeting Report	Weather	10.1002/wea.2282
2013	Murray, S. A., et al	Evidence for Partial Taylor Relaxation from Changes in Magnetic Geometry and Energy during a Solar Flare	Astronomy & Astrophysics	10.1051/0004-6361/201219964
2012	Murray, S. A., et al	The Evolution of Sunspot Magnetic Fields Associated with a Solar Flare	Solar Physics	10.1007/s11207-011-9796-4

Talks

YEAR	TYPE	TITLE	MEETING	LOCATION
2022	Invited	International efforts to improve solar flare forecasts	American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting	Online
2021	Invited	International efforts to improve solar flare forecasts	Irish National Astronomy Meeting	Online
	Invited	International efforts to improve solar flare forecasts	UK National Astronomy Meeting	Online
	Keynote	Solar Eruption Prediction: Where do we go from here?	Second Jack Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium, Online	Online
	Invited	International efforts to improve solar flare forecasts	NASA Goddard Heliophysics Science Division Seminar	Online
	Invited	Finding the right metric: solar flare forecast evaluation	Machine Learning for Planetary Space Physics Seminar	Online
2020	Invited	Research to operations requirements: a forecasting centre perspective	American Geophysical Fall Union Meeting	Online
	Invited	Predicting Solar Eruptions: what has machine learning done for us?	Virtual Workshop on Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Data Assimilation in Geospace (LMAG2020)	Online
	Invited	Predicting Solar Eruptions: what has machine learning done for us?	Virtual Geospace Modeling Environment (VGEM) Workshop.	Online
	Invited	Solar Eruptive Forecasting	Astrophysics Research Centre Seminar Programme	Queens University Belfast, UK
	Invited	Solar Eruptive Forecasting	Astronomy Group Seminar Programme	University of Southampton, UK
2019	Invited	Research to operations for space weather forecasting	Python in Astronomy	Baltimore, USA
	Invited	Fostering scientific collaboration for improved space weather forecasting	Asia Oceania Geosciences Society	Singapore, Malaysia
	Contributed	Sunspotter: Solar Physics in the Classroom	UK National Astronomy Meeting	Lancaster, UK
	Invited	Connecting CMEs to their solar active region sources	UK Solar Orbiter Workshop	London, UK
	Invited	Fostering scientific collaboration for improved space weather forecasting	European Geophysical Union Meeting	Vienna, Austria
	Invited	Ensembles for space weather forecasting	Space Weather Workshop	Boulder, USA
	Invited	Fostering scientific collaboration for improved space weather forecasting	Chapman Conference on Space Weather Forecasting	Pasadena, USA
2018	Contributed	Space rain: what will the space around our world be like tomorrow?	American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting	Washington DC, USA
	Contributed	Sunspotter: Solar Physics in the Classroom	European Space Weather Week	Leuven, Belgium
	Invited	Learning from terrestrial weather: improved verification measures for space weather forecasting	Triennial Earth Science Summit	Virginia, USA
	Contributed	Ensemble flare forecasting: using numerical weather prediction techniques to improve space weather operations	European Week of Astronomy and Space Science	Liverpool, UK.
	Invited	Solar Eruptive Forecasting	Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics Seminar	University of Warwick, UK
2017	Invited	Ensemble solar flare forecasting: using numerical weather prediction techniques to improve space weather operations	American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting	New Orleans, USA
	Contributed	Verification of Flare Forecasts at the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre	European Meteorological Society Annual Meeting	Dublin, Ireland
	Contributed	Connecting Coronal Mass Ejections to their Solar Active Region Sources: Combining Results from the HELCATS and FLARECAST Projects	IAU 335: Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts	Exeter, UK
	Invited	Space Weather Research at TCD	3rd Annual Emergency Management Research Symposium	Dublin City University, Ireland
	Invited	Solar Flare Prediction Team Progress	International CCMC-LWS Working Meeting	Florida, USA
	Invited	Flare forecasting – a beginners guide	First FLARECAST User Workshop	Exeter, UK
2016	Invited	The CORSAIR algorithm – connecting the HELCATS and FLARECAST projects	European Space Weather Week 13	Ostend, Belgium
	Invited	HELCATS Task 3.3: Inverse Modelling	5th HELCATS Steering Committee Meeting	Dublin, Ireland
	Invited	Automatic identification of the solar surface sources of CMEs in the HELCATS database	ISSI Flare Forecasting International Team Meeting	Bern, Switzerland
	Contributed	HELCATS – Connecting Coronal Mass Ejections to their Solar Active Region Sources	Irish National Astronomy Meeting	Dublin, Ireland
	Invited	Space Weather Operations and Research at the Met Office	Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Center Seminar	University of Sheffield, UK
	Invited	Geomagnetic storm forecasting	Mathematical Integrative Think Tank.	University of Bath, UK
2015	Invited	An Overview of Met Office Space Weather Operations and Research	Royal Observatory Belgium Seminar	Brussels, Belgium
	Invited	Transitioning space weather models to operations at the Met Office	UK National Astronomy Meeting	LLandudo, Wales
	Invited	Extending the Met Office Unified Model to the thermosphere, and coupling it with TIEGCM	RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting	London, UK
	Invited	Flare Forecasting at the Met Office,	ISSI Team Meeting	Bern, Switzerland
	Invited	FLARECAST: Dissemination to government and industry,	FLARECAST Kick-Off Meeting	Brussels, Belgium
2014	Contributed	Space weather services and research at the Met Office	European Solar Physics Meeting	Dublin, Ireland
	Invited	Met Office Space Weather Research	Kirtland Air Force Base Seminar	Albuquerque, USA
2013	Contributed	ATMOP splinter session: WP5 and WP6 results	European Space Weather Week 10	Antwerp, Belgium
2012	Contributed	Sunspot Magnetic Geometry and Energy Changes associated with a Solar Flare	UK-Germany National Astronomy Meeting	Manchester, UK.
2011	Contributed	Evolution of sunspot magnetic fields associated with flaring	UK National Astronomy Meeting	Llandudno, Wales
2009	Contributed	Complex Magnetic Topologies of Solar Active Regions	USO Summer School on Solar Magnetism	Dwingeloo, Netherlands

Meetings Organised

YEAR	MEETING	LOCATION
2022	Planetary Radio Emissions Conference	Dublin, Ireland
	IAU Symposium 361	Cavan, Ireland
	HESS collaboration spring meeting	Dublin, Ireland
2021	Space Weather Strategy, White Papers, and Roadmaps: Pathways to the Future @ American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Session	Online
2020	Irish National Astronomy Meeting	Online
	Python in Astronomy Conference	Online
	International Space Weather Action Teams Inaugural Working Meeting	Florida, USA
2019	A Global Network of International Action Teams Targeting Improvements of Resilience to Space Weather @ American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting	San Fransisco, USA
	Uncertainty Quantification and Statistical Best Practices for Space Weather @ American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting	San Fransisco, USA
	Machine Learning in Heliophysics Conference	Amsterdam, Netherlands
	Ensemble Forecasts in Space Weather: Science and Operations Workshop@ Lorentz Center	Leiden, Netherlands
2018	Quantifying Uncertainty in Space Weather Modeling and Forecasting @ American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting	DC, USA
	Challenges in Extreme Space Weather Research: Science, Applications, and Policies for Rare Events December 2018, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Session, DC, USA.	DC, USA
	Flare forecasting: where are we and where should we be going? @ European Space Weather Week 15	Leuven, Belgium
	Operations/Services Plenary Session @ European Space Weather Week 15	Leuven, Belgium
	The use of observations and models to improve space weather forecasting capabilities @ European Geosciences Union General Assembly	Vienna, Austria
2017	Space Weather: A Multidisciplinary Approach @ Lorentz Centre	Leiden, Netherlands
	The use of observations and models to improve space weather forecasting capabilities @ European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.	Vienna, Austria
	Solar Flare Prediction Team Working Meeting @ International CCMC-LWS Working Meeting	Florida, USA
	FLARECAST Project First User Workshop	Exeter, UK
2016	Community-wide space weather scoreboards: research assessment of real-time forecasting models and techniques @ European Space Weather Week 13	Ostend, Belgium
	The 5th Bi-annual Steering Committee Meeting of the HELCATS project	Dublin, Ireland
	Space Weather Risks and Challenges for Ireland	Dublin, Ireland
2015	Solar wind initiation, evolution, and interplanetary consequences @ UK National Astronomy Meeting	Llandudno, Wales

Posters

YEAR	TITLE	MEETING	LOCATION
2020	SunPy 2.0: the community-developed open-source solar data analysis environment for Python, , Online.	American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting	Dublin, Ireland
	SunPy: The community-developed, free, and open-source solar data analysis environment for Python	UK Solar Physics Specialist Discussion Day	Online
2019	Astronomical Midlands Programme	National Astronomy Meeting	Lancaster, UK
2018	Fostering scientific collaboration for improved space weather forecasting: Combining the results of the EU HELCATS and FLARECAST Projects,	American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting	Washington DC, USA
	Modelling Ensemble Forecasts of Solar Flares	European Meteorological Society Annual Meeting	Dublin, Ireland
	Verification of flare forecasts at the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre	IAU 335: Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts	Exeter, UK
2017	Connecting Coronal Mass Ejections to their Solar Active Region Sources	European Geophysical Union Meeting	Vienna, Austria
	CME Properties and Source Region Characteristics: HELCATS Results	European Geophysical Union Meeting	Vienna, Austria
2016	Community-wide space weather Scoreboards: Facilitating the Validation of Real-time CME, Flare, and SEP Forecasts	American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting	San Fransisco, USA
	Verification of flare forecasts at the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre	European Space Weather Week 13	Ostend, Belgium
	CME kinematics and solar source region characteristics – HELCATS results	European Space Weather Week 13	Ostend, Belgium
	Space Weather Research at Trinity College Dublin	Space Weather: Risks and Challenges for Ireland	Dublin, Ireland
2015	Verification of Space Weather Forecasts using Terrestrial Weather Approaches	American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting	San Fransisco, USA
	Flare forecasting developments at the Met Office	European Space Weather Week 12	Ostend, Belgium
	Real time forecasting methods validation with the Flare Scoreboard	European Space Weather Week 12	Ostend, Belgium
2014	An inclination to flaring: Active region magnetic field changes during a solar flare	European Solar Physics Meeting	Dublin, Ireland
	Assessing the performance of thermospheric modelling with data assimilation: results of the ATMOP project	Space Weather Workshop	Boulder, USA
2013	Comparison of thermospheric data assimilation with a drag temperature model for operational nowcasting and forecasting	RAS Discussion Meeting on Space Weather	London, UK
	Comparison of EnOI data assimilation into two physical models of the thermosphere	European Space Weather Week 10	London, UK
	Comparison of thermospheric data assimilation with a drag temperature model for operational nowcasting and forecasting	European Space Weather Week 12	Antwerp, Belgium
	The Big, the Bad and the Ugly – Citizen scientist sunspot classification with Sunspot Zoo	UK National Astronomy Meeting	St Andrews, Scotland
2012	Variation of Magnetic Field Inclination across a Magnetic Neutral Line during a Solar Flare	Hinode 6	St Andrews, Scotland
	Sunspot Magnetic Geometry and Energy Changes associated with a Solar Flare	ASGI Spring Meeting	Birr, Ireland
	What is the Astrophysics Research Group at TCD doing to understand Space Weather?	Irish Meteorological Society	Dublin, Ireland
	Magnetic Geometry and Energy Changes associated with a Solar Flare	RAS Discussion Meeting on Solar Eruptions	London, UK
2010	Sunspot Magnetic Field evolution over the course of a Solar Flare	RIA Meeting: The Transient Universe	Dublin, Ireland
	Murray, S. A., et al., August 2010, Flare-Related Evolution of Sunspot 3D Magnetic Fields	IAU Symposium 273: Physics of Sun and Star Spots	Ventura, USA

Theses

YEAR	TITLE	DEGREE	UNIVERSITY
2012	Fields and Flares: Understanding the Complex Magnetic Topologies of Solar Active Regions	PhD Solar Physics	Trinity College Dublin
2008	The Physics of Radio Loud Solar Flares	MSc (Dist.) Space Science	University College London
2007	Tracing Particles from the Sun to the Earth’s Ionosphere	B.A. Hons. Mod. Physics and Astrophysics	Trinity College Dublin