Principal investigator (with C. J. Rodger) of the Antarctic-Arctic Radiation-belt (Dynamic) Deposition – VLF Atmospheric Research Konsortium (AARDDVARK).

UK rep to International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, IAGA, (2013 -onwards).

UK rep to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, SCAR, Sun-Earth Relationships and Antarctica group (2014 – onwards).

Member of the CHemical Aeronomy in the Mesosphere and Ozone in the Stratosphere (CHAMOS) science team.

Member of the British Geological Survey Geomagnetism Advisory Group (2005-onwards).

International Union of Radio Science (URSI) representative to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, an inter-disciplinary committee of the International Council for Science. (2005-2014).

Member of the European Space Weather Week Programme Committee (2013-2015).

UK representative, URSI Commission H. (2002-2005)

Conclusions of study [Seppälä et al., 2009] selected as a highlight in the 2010 science activities of the British Antarctic Survey and featured in their Annual Report (BAS Annual Report 2009-2010, page 7, 2010).

Conclusions of study [Gamble et al., 2008] described in the Editor’s Choice section of the American Geophysical Union publication, Space Weather Quarterly. Howard J. Singer, Radio Signals From Australia Perturb Radiation Belt Electrons, Editor’s Choice in Space Weather Quarterly, Volume 6, Issue 1, pg. 8, 2009.

Incorporation of research work through 2 references in the Chapter 4 of the latest WMO Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2006 (Feb 2007).

Conclusions of study [Rodger et al., 2006] described in New Scientist magazine (issue 2565, 19 Aug. 2006) and New Scientist website.

Papers selected by journal editors as scientific highlight of that month’s issue of Geophysical Research Letters [Rodger et al., 2001; Rodger and Clilverd, 2002].

Polar Medal for services to Science in the Antarctic, presented by H.M. The Queen, 1998.

Laws prize awarded to outstanding young scientists of the British Antarctic Survey for Antarctic research, 1994.

Royal Society Post-doctoral Fellowship in Physics, undertaken at the Department of Physics, University of Otago, 1990-1991.

Biography

PhD: University of Sheffield 1990 BSc (Hons): University of Southampton 1984

Research interests

Upper Atmosphere and Space Physics focused on the impact of energetic particle effects on the Earth’s atmosphere and climate system.

• Meredith, N., Bortnik, J., Hua, M., Cayton, T., Clilverd, M., Daggitt, T., & Bunting, K. (2025). Solar Wind and Geomagnetic Conditions that Lead to the Largest Relativistic Electron Fluxes in GPS Orbit (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/b6d3de94-c1db-42f6-9342-061f6b74d99c

• Newnham, D. (2022). Atmospheric observational datasets: Ozone vertical profiles in the polar middle atmosphere north of Ny Ålesund, Spitsbergen (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/19845e8e-d6ef-4f95-8961-4da60f8294d3

• Meredith, N., Horne, R., Clilverd, M., & Ross, J. (2019). Global models of the VLF transmitter wave power in the inner radiation belt and slot region (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/395408f5-0f0e-43b3-83c8-dfa719a1bb87

• Ross, J., Meredith, N., Glauert, S., Horne, R., & Clilverd, M. (2019). Effects of VLF transmitter waves on the inner belt and slot region (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/93ff55bf-7415-44c8-8e3d-7e2f5c5ffd6d

• Clilverd, M. (2007). Very Low frequency (VLF) Doppler Radio Receiver data from Rothera, Antarctica in 2001-2002 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00284

• Clilverd, M., & Kirsch, P. (2004). VELOX (VLF/ELF Logger Experiment) data, Halley Station, 1992 onwards (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00055

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3. ‘Sounds of Space’

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