Ecophysiology Research Group

 

 

 

 

Group Members
Research Interests

Professor Bruce A Osborne,

BA (Stirling), PhD (Nottingham)

email: bruce.osborne@ucd.ie

Ecophysiology, plant optical properties, biophysics and plant metabolism, energy transduction and the environmental physiology of photosynthesis and photoprotective processes, carbon metabolism in mycorrhizal symbioses, nitrogen metabolism, biology of the Gunnera-Nostoc symbiosis.

Mr. Eugene G. Sherry, Senior Technical Officer

BSc (UCD)

email: eugene.sherry@ucd.ie

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Gunnera-Nostoc symbiosis.

Dr. Giuseppe Benanti, Postdoctoral Research Assistant

BSc (NUIG).

PhD (UCD)

email: astolo@yahoo.it

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Carbifor II: Ecosystem Processes

Trace gas emissions from forest ecosystems

Ms. Orlaith O' Connor, Postgraduate Student

BSc.

Currently pursuing PhD.

email: orlaith.oconnor@teagasc.ie

 

 

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Mr. Poornachander Maratha,

Postgraduate Student

BSc

Currently pursuing PhD.

email: chasandhu@gmail.com

   

Mr. Sylvester Ogbunuju,

Postgraduate Student

BSc

Currently pursuing PhD.

email: sylvester.ogbunuju@ucdconnect.ie

   

Ms. Lisa Keogh,

Postgraduate Student

BA (Mod) (TCD)

Currently pursuing MSc.

email: lisa.keogh@ucdconnect.ie

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The impact of elevated [CO2] on the low temperature tolerance of agricultural crops and the origin of agriculture in Europe. Several agriculturally important species, as well as einkorn - an ancient relative of wheat and hypothesised to be the first domesticated crop, have been included in this study at PEAC in UCD.

Mr. Amanuel Gebremichael,

Postgraduate Student

BSc

Currently pursuing PhD.

email: amanuel.gebremichael@ucdconnect.ie

   

Mr. Angel Cordero Vicente,

Postgraduate Student

BSc

Currently pursuing PhD.

email: angel.cordero-vicente@ucdconnect.ie

   

Mr. Jun Liang Zou,

Postgraduate Student

BSc

Currently pursuing PhD.

email: junliang.zou@ucdconnect.ie

 

Mr. Macdara O'Neill,

Postgraduate Student

BA (Mod) TCD, MSc (UCD)

Currently pursuing PhD.

email: oneillm005@gmail.com

Quantifying the effects of cultivation techniques on the Greenhouse Gas balance of oil seed rape cropping systems
Former Group Members
Research Interests

Ms. Anne Katrin Prescher, Postgraduate Student

Diplom Hydrologist (TU Dresden, Germany)

Currently pursuing PhD.

email: anne-katrin_presher@gmx.de

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Dr. Erica Cacciotti, Postgraduate Student

BSc & MSc (Italy)

PhD (UCD)

email: e.cacciotti@gmail.com

 

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Climate change
Dr. Matt Saunders, Postdoctoral Research Assistant

BSc (East Anglia), MSc (TCD),

PhD (TCD)

Currently a researcher in The James Hutton Research Institute, Aberdeen.

 

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Carbifor II: Ecosystem Processes

The impact of stand age, yield class and forest management on greenhouse gas fluxes

Dr. Dru Marsh,

BSc & LLB, (Monash University, Australia)

PhD (UCD).

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The identification and characterisation of suitable winter cover crops for use in agro-ecosystems as a means of carbon sequestration and nitrous oxide emissions reduction.

Dr. Kieran Mc Kevitt,

BSc (UCD)

PhD (UCD)

email: kieranmack@gmail.com

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Carbon dioxide fluxes from soils under different management systems.

Dr. Mohamed Helmy,

BSc (Suze Canal, Ismailia, Egypt)

PhD (UCD)

email: helmyhammad@gmail.com

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Trace gas emissions from arable ecosystems.

Dr. Soni Mulakupadom,

BSc., MSc. (Mahatma Gandhi University, India)

PhD (UCD)

email: soniscaria@gmail.com

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Maize as a multifunctional crop.

Dr. Mark Fennell,

BSc (UCD)

PhD(UCD)

email: fennellm@mac.com

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Population differentiation in Gunnera tinctoria, an invasive species: A molecular analysis

Dr. Saul Otero Labarta, Postdoctoral Research Assistant

BSc (Zaragoza)

Dip. Advanced Studies (La Rioja)

PhD (La Rioja)

Dr. Otero sadly passed away in Dec. 2011.

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Ms. Dilek Killi, Postgraduate Student

BSc & MSc (Canakkale, Turkey)

Currently pursuing PhD.

 

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Determination of carbon dioxide emissions with Eddy Covariance technology from different tillage systems, and the interaction with climate change.

Dr. David Walmsley,

BSc & MSc (Frankfurt, Germany),

PhD (UCD)

 

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Quantifying dissolved carbon and nitrogen losses from soils.

Effects of biodiversity on carbon cycling in grasslands

Ms Maria Angeles Rodriguez-Tunon, Postgraduate Student

BSc (Oviedo, Spain), MSc (Turku, Finland)

Currently pursuing PhD

 

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Effect of invasive species on biodiversity and the interaction with climate change.

Ms. Milja Tammi, Postgraduate Student

MSc. Ecology, (Turku, Finland)

Currently pursuing a PhD

email: tmkkar@utu.fi

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Suitability of cyanobacteria Athrospira platensis and Nostoc Sp. to biogenerative life support systems in Martian conditions.

Dr Emma Reeves

 

BSc (UCD), PhD (UCD)

 

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The effects of water availability on Burren plants.

Control & management of Gunnera tinctoria.

Dr Sarah Ryan,

 

BSc (NUIM), PhD (UCD)

 

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Water availability on the performance of limestone pavement species in the Burren, Co. Clare.

Dr Margherita Gioria, Postdoctoral Research Assistant

BSc, PhD (UCD)

email: margherita.gioria@ucd.ie

Invasive Species

Dr Miklos Nagy, Postdoctoral Research Assistant

BSc

PhD

 

 

 

 

Greenhouse gas sources and sinks in major Irish land use categories (CCFlux).

Ms. Cristina Armstrong, Postgraduate Student

BSc. Pursuing MSc.

Currently a member of staff at the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.

email: cristina.armstrong@opw.ie

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Mapping & Management of Gunnera tinctoria.

Ms Kehinde Olowoyeye, Postgraduate Student

BSc (Ilorin, Nigeria), MSc (Lagos, Nigeria)

Currently pursuing a PhD

 

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Photosynthesis and Biomass Production of Maize grown under plastic.

Dr Kevin Black, Postdoctoral Research Assistant

BSc Hons (UND), PhD (UCD)

 

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Carbon sink-source relationships at the cellular, organism and ecosystem level.

Current research area includes the development of micrometeorological techniques such as eddy covariance and relaxed eddy accumulation to study GHG fluxes from forest ecosystems.

Dr Phil Davis, Postdoctoral Research Assistant

BSc (Bristol), PhD (Bristol)

 

 

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Greenhouse gas sources and sinks in major Irish land use categories (CCFlux for short).

The Ecophysiology and gas vesicles of Planktothrix spp.