Group
Members |
Research Interests |
Professor
Bruce A Osborne,
BA (Stirling), PhD (Nottingham)
email: bruce.osborne@ucd.ie |
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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 |
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Mr. Sylvester Ogbunuju,
Postgraduate Student
BSc
Currently pursuing PhD.
email: sylvester.ogbunuju@ucdconnect.ie |
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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 |
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Mr. Angel Cordero Vicente,
Postgraduate Student
BSc
Currently pursuing PhD.
email: angel.cordero-vicente@ucdconnect.ie |
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Mr. Jun Liang Zou,
Postgraduate Student
BSc
Currently pursuing PhD.
email: junliang.zou@ucdconnect.ie |
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Mr. Macdara O'Neill,
Postgraduate Student
BA (Mod) TCD, MSc (UCD)
Currently pursuing PhD.
email: oneillm005@gmail.com
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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
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Invasive Species |
Dr
Miklos Nagy, Postdoctoral Research Assistant
BSc
PhD
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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. |
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