Current Postgraduate Students

Padraig graduated from Maynooth University in 2013 with an International BA in Geography and Economics, where he first became interested in climate change. As part of this degree he spent a year studying at Utrecht University, studying a diverse range of subjects including psychology and medieval Irish literature. He returned to Maynooth University to continue his studies and graduated from the M.Sc. in Climate Change in 2014 receiving the department prize. He is currently working towards a PhD investigating the impacts of climate change and extreme weather on Irish agricultural emissions of soil carbon and nitrogen. This involves the use of statistical computing, R, Python and GIS.

Thesis working title: Investigating the impacts of climate, climate change and weather volatility on Irish agricultural emissions of soil carbon and nitrogen.

Supervisors
Rowan Fealy and Reamonn Fealy

Linked Research Group
ICARUS

Research interests
Climate Change, Soil Carbon, Extreme Weather, Weather Volatility, Environment, Climate Policy

Publications
Flattery, P. (2013) Quantification of the anthropogenic heat flux from non-residential buildings in Dublin city centre. MSc thesis, Maynooth University.

Conference Papers
Flattery, P (2015) Estimating Soil Carbon in Ireland: Exploring Methodologies. Wageningen Soil Conference 2015, Wageningen, Netherlands.
Flattery, P. (2015) Estimating Soil Carbon: Exploring Methodologies. Conference of Irish Geographers Annual Meeting, Belfast, Ireland.
Flattery, P. (2015) Impacts of climate change and extreme weather on Irish agricultural emissions of soil carbon. Maynooth University Department Presentation

Prizes
Department of Geography prize for the best performance in the M.Sc in Climate Change 2014.

Teaching
2014/15: Completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning
2014/15: Academic tutor to individual M.Sc students
2015: Tutor to first year geography undergraduates (GY124, GY114)
2015: Demonstrator to second year geography undergraduates (GY202, GY201)
2015: Tutor to third year geography undergraduates (GY310B)

Memberships
Irish Climate Analysis & Research Units (ICARUS)
Irish Meteorological Society (IMS)
Geographical Society of Ireland (GSI)

Social Media
https://twitter.com/PadraigFlattery
https://www.linkedin.com/in/padraigflattery

Contact
padraig.flattery@nuim.ie