Research

• Research themes
  • Earth Systems: Climate Change, Water and Geohazards
  • Sustainable Bioresources
  • Energy Supply: Renewable and Sustainable Energy
  • Emissions: Reduction and Control
  • Transport and Infrastructure
  • Economics and Policy Analysis
• Earth Resources Characterisation
• Climate Adaptation, Mitigation & Geohazards
• Smart Cities & Infrastructure
• Technology Platforms
• Publications

Earth Systems: Climate Change, Water and Geohazards

The Earth Systems team aim to improve the ability to track carbon performance, and the quality of prediction as regards climate change and implications, including development of credible quantitative risk assessment. The research also develops means of estimating water flow and water quality, flood risk, and identify priority reactions as regards adaptation, while creating a platform for innovation led enterprise

The main research areas include:

• Provision of software tools by which individuals can track and access their carbon footprint, in collaboration with the Centre for Sensor Web Technologies (CLARITY)
  
• Improving existing climate modelling
  
• Developing  better understanding of bio-climate interactions
  
• Developing techniques (with CASL) for improving understanding of extreme risks, how to address them analytically and from a policy perspective
  
• Determining influence of climate change on bioresource productivity and how climate affects atmospheric emissions from ecosystems
  
• Development of  accurate prediction of climate change in Ireland by 2020 and beyond
  
• Quantification of impacts on Irish bioresources and transport infrastructure
  
• Development of appropriate mitigation strategies
  
• Determining the influence of climate change on bioresource productivity and how climate affects atmospheric emissions from ecosystems
  
• Predicting how climate will influence the carbon sequestration potential of ecosystems and atmospheric emissions from the agricultural and forestry industries
  
• Effect of climate change on urban slopes
  
• Pre-instrumental past climate variability and climate model validation
  
• Multiproxy records of recent rapid environmental perturbation
  
• Global climate change: reducing uncertainties in the forecast
  
• Modelling climate change in Ireland
  
• Changes in extreme weather: modelling and risk assessment
  
• Modelling past climates
  
• Landslides
  
• Research and development and innovation in meeting energy and climate change targets
  
• Flood forecasting, planning and management
  
• Water supply
  
• Groundwater flow in fractured aquifers
  
• Wastewater treatment
  
• Water and environment
  
• Technologies to model and remediate contaminated groundwater
  
• Earth sensors for extreme environments
  

Related Schools in UCD

• UCD School of Agriculture & Food Science
• UCD School of Architecture
• UCD School of Biology & Environmental Science
• UCD School of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
• UCD School of Computer Science & Informatics
• UCD School of Geography, Planning & Environmental Policy
• UCD School of Geological Sciences
• UCD School of Mathematical Sciences