Programme by Session

The Southampton Planeterrella is a modern reimagining of the original terrella created by Kristian Birkeland to explore his theories of solar-terrestrial physics. This recreation allows us to capture the public’s interest due to its spectacular nature. From there, we can engage the public with the history, the foundational science and the cutting edge of MIST science. In our initial engagement programme we have engaged over 4000 people and over 50 schools. In this poster, we share some vital statistics from our engagement programme and look at how we could improve our engagement and our evaluation, as well as what we could do to engage the public with auroral and space weather research in the future.