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MU to co-lead AI and climate research in new Irish-UK Centre
Maynooth University will be a leading research partner in a new Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity and Water, one of two research centres to receive joint funding of €70 million from the Irish and UK governments.
Date: Wednesday, 29 November 2023
ICARUS research identifies climate change from weather records
New research at Maynooth University’s ICARUS Climate Research Centre shows clear evidence that humans are changing Ireland’s climate and highlights the need for climate adaptation measures particularly in flood protection.
Date: Friday, 20 October 2023
Geographers go to Glastonbury!
Maynooth Geographers have been successfully accepted to present at Glastonbury Festival, the world’s largest greenfield music and performing arts festival with attendance of over 200,000 people.
Date: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
Act now for a liveable future, scientists plead as IPCC climate report shows time running out to tackle global warming. Independent.ie Press release
The world’s plans to tackle climate change are insufficient and make it likely global warming will reach the critical 1.5C threshold early next decade. With that will come “rapidly escalating hazards” with more frequent and intense extreme weather events, increased harm to human health and nature, and worsening food and water shortages. These dangers lie ahead despite the availability of “multiple, feasible and effective options” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Those are the conclusions of scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today.
Date: Monday, 20 March 2023
ICARUS research shows a 40% rise in hurricane rainfall rate over land for a 1°C rise in ocean temperatures
ICARUS Climate Research Centre academics analyse tropical cyclone rainfall in the North Atlantic between 1997 -2017
Date: Wednesday, 01 March 2023
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
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
ICARUS research identifies climate change from weather records
Maynooth University ICARUS Climate Research Centre studies Irish weather records for signals of climate change
Date: Friday, 20 October 2023
Greenhouse gas emissions at ‘an all-time high’
Greenhouse gas emissions at ‘an all-time high’ causing unprecedented rate of global warming - global scientists
Date: Thursday, 08 June 2023
MU receives €5m under SFI Frontiers programme
Maynooth University researchers are set to receive over €5 million in funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under the Frontiers for the Future Programme, to tackle a range of topics such as renewable energy, climate change, food security, astronomy, immunology and cognitive science.
Date: Tuesday, 30 May 2023