This year our GY313 climate change course assessment was changed up by course convener Dr. Conor Murphy, supported by PhD candidate Ciara Ryan and postdoctoral researchers Dr. Catriona Duffy and Dr. Ciaran Broderick. Inspired by the ACRE conference hosted last year at Maynooth University and working in partnership with Met Eireann the students of GY313 successfully double-key transcribed in excess of 1400 years of early irish daily precipitation records. Ciara Ryan led the production of a poster highlighting the innovative participatory research Coursework Assessment and presented it at the meeting of the European Geosciences Union. The World Meteorological Organization found out about the poster and has integrated it into a new page highlighting global data rescue activities as an example of best practice . Papers describing both the approach and the rescued data are in preparation. The students of GY313 have left a lasting legacy that shall be to the great benefit of Irish research and, ultimately, Irish society. Chapeau to both the staff involved and the students of GY313.
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Maynooth University research confirms elevated rates of sea-level rise in Dublin
Maynooth University's research on sea level trends in Dublin Bay over eight decades has confirmed elevated rates of sea level rise in recent years.
Date: Thursday, 28 April 2022
Terrain-AI Wins at the 2021 AI Awards
Terrain-AI, led by Dr Rowan Fealy and Professor Tim McCarthy, wins AI Award for Best Application of AI to Achieve Social Good at the AI Awards ceremony, held on Thursday 25 November. The AI Awards, which are held annually, seek to recognise how AI can be ethically used to help solve some of the biggest business, academic, environmental, and health challenges facing our society today.
Date: Friday, 26 November 2021
Taoiseach launches All-Island Climate and Biodiversity Research Network
Taoiseach Micheál Martin and deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill today launched the All-Island Climate and Biodiversity Research Network (AICBRN) at a pivotal point, with the world having heard the true scale of the global crisis at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-26) and the UN Biodiversity Conference last month (COP-15).
Date: Tuesday, 09 November 2021
Gulf Stream System at its weakest in over a millennium
A new study by scientists from Ireland, Britain and Germany has found that the Gulf Stream System, also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), is at its weakest in over a millennium.
Date: Friday, 26 February 2021
Maynooth University Post Doctorate researcher Dr. Levke Caesar awarded Publication Prize for young scientist of Leibniz-Kolleg Potsdam 2020
Dr. Levke Kathrin Caesar has been awarded the Publication Prize for young scientists 2020 by the Leibniz-Kolleg Potsdam. Dr Caesar receives the 5,000 Euro prize for her outstanding, socially relevant work on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Her excellent publication in the renowned journal “Nature” has already been cited over 200 times since its publication in 2018.
Date: Tuesday, 15 December 2020
Microsoft Ireland, SFI and MU Launch €5m Climate Change Project: Terrain-AI
Microsoft Ireland and SFI (Science Foundation Ireland) today announced the co-funding of a €5m climate change project in collaboration with Maynooth University.
Date: Tuesday, 15 December 2020
Geography MSc Climate Changes wins HE Award
The Department of Geography's MSc Climate Change wins Best Postgraduate Course in Science 2020
Date: Friday, 22 November 2019
Maynooth University student is the regional winner for the Global Undergraduate Awards
Maynooth University student is the regional winner for the Global Undergraduate Awards in the ‘Social Sciences: Anthropology and Cultural Studies’ category
Date: Friday, 04 October 2019
Maynooth University oceanographer Dr Gerard McCarthy awarded international Early Career Scientist medal
The IAPSO Early Career Scientist Medal honours Early Career Scientists for their outstanding research in the physical or chemical sciences of the oceans, and for their cooperation in international research.
Date: Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Maynooth University oceanographer Dr Gerard McCarthy leads €2 million climate change project funded by Marine Institute
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Minister Creed T.D. has welcomed the announcement of €2 million in funding from the Marine Institute and the European Regional Development Fund for a major project on Atlantic climate change led by Dr Gerard McCarthy of the ICARUS Climate Research Centre and Department of Geography at Maynooth University.
Date: Wednesday, 19 December 2018