Staff Lead researchers RF Professor Robert Fear Professor Research interests Magnetic reconnection Large-scale solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling Global magnetospheric dynamics Connect with Robert Email: R.C.Fear@soton.ac.uk Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups Geology and Geophysics We research a wide range of societally impactful areas of geology and geophysics for a sustainable future. The latest facilities and technology development support our activities. Research outputs The role of tectonic plate thickness and mantle conductance in determining regional vulnerability to extreme space weather events: possible enhancement of magnetic source fields by secondary induction in the asthenosphere 2020, Space Weather, 18(12) DOI: 10.1029/2020SW002587 Type: article Estimating the electric field response to the Halloween 2003 and September 2017 magnetic storms across Scotland using observed geomagnetic fields, magnetotelluric impedances and perturbation tensors 2020, Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 10 DOI: 10.1051/swsc/2020049 Type: article Nowcasting and validating Earth's electric‐field response to extreme space‐weather events using magnetotelluric data: application to the September 2017 geomagnetic storm and comparison to observed and modelled fields in Scotland 2020, Space Weather DOI: 10.1029/2019SW002432 Type: article