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| Sharon O'Rourke has recently been appointed as a lecturer in Abiotic (Air, Soil, Water) Resources in the School of Agriculture and Food Science. Formally a postdoctoral research fellow with the UCD School of Biosystems Engineering, her main research interests involve the application of optical sensing and chemometric analysis for the determination of soil properties, with a special interest in soil carbon. She will commence a Marie Curie Fellowship next year to continue this research to investigate the long-term security of the abiotic carbon store. During her PhD (awarded 2009) she examined a number of mitigation options to lower phosphorus loss to water following surface applications of manure in intensive dairy farms. She graduated with a BAgrSc (Agricultural and Environmental Science) from UCD in 2004. |
| My current research investigates the utility of infrared spectroscopic and hyperspectral imaging techniques to characterise Irish soils. I am interested in selective verses non-selective modelling approaches, image analysis of soils and the feasibility of national scale calibrations for soil organic carbon, pH and available nutrients.
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| O'Rourke, S.M., and Holden, N.H.; (2011) 'Optical sensing and chemometric analysis of soil organic carbon - a cost effective alternative to conventional laboratory methods?'. Soil Use and Management, 27 (2):143-155. [Details] |
| O'Rourke, S.M. and N.H. Holden; (2011) 'Determination of soil organic matter and carbon fractions in forest topsoils using VIS-NIR hyperspectral imaging'. Soil Science Society of America Journal, . [Details] |
| O'Rourke, S.M., Argenati, I., Holden, N.M.; (2011) 'The effect of Region of Interest size on model calibration for soil organic carbon prediction from hyperspectral images of prepared soils'. Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 19 :161-170. [Details] |
| O'Rourke, S.M., R.H. Foy, C.J. Watson, A. Gordon and D. Doody; (2011) 'Assessment of co-blending water treatment residual with dairy manure to reduce phosphorus concentrations in runoff in Northern Ireland'. Soil Use and Management, . [Details] |
| O'Rourke, S.M., Foy, R.H., Watson, C.P., Gordon, A.; (2010) 'Effect of varying the phosphorus content of dairy cow diets on losses of phosphorus in overland flow following surface applications of manure'. Journal of Environmental Quality, 39 (6):2138-2146. [Details] |
| O'Rourke, S.M. and Holden, N.M.; (2011) The potential of near infrared lab based hyperspectral imaging for the determination of geochemical properties in Irish soils The 15th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 13 - 20th May, Cape Town, South Africa [Details] |
| O'Rourke, S.M. and Holden, N.M.; (2011) The potential of visible-near infrared hyperspectral imaging for determining soil organic matter and carbon fractions in forest top soils European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011, 3 - 8th April, Vienna, Austria [Details] |
| O'Rourke, S.M., Holden, N.M.; (2010) Optical sensing and chemometric analysis of soil properties - a cost-effective alternative to conventional laboratory methods? The 20th Irish Environmental Researchers' Colloquium, 17 - 19th February, Limerick, Ireland [Details] |
| O'Rourke, S.M., Foy, R.H. and Watson, C.J.; (2010) The effect of co-blending water treatment residual with manure on the concentrations of soluble phosphorus in surface runoff Advances in Animal Biosciences; Food Feed, Energy and Fibre from Land - A Vision for 2020, 12 - 14th April, Belfast [Details] |
| O'Rourke, S., Holden, N., Menesatti, P., Giorgi, S., Canali, E.; (2010) Predictions of soil organic carbon in topsoil from from forest soils using VIS-NIR hyperspectral imaging The International Association for Spectral Imaging (IASIM-10), 18 - 19th November, Dublin, Ireland [Details] |
| Year 2004 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: BAgrSc Subject: |
| Year 2009 Institution: Queen's University of Belfast, UK Qualification: PhD Subject: Doctor of Philosophy |
| I look forward to teaching two new modules in the next academic year (semester 1, 2012) - Soil-Water Management - Climate, Carbon and Soils |
| 201100 AESC30230 Agricultural&Environmental Sci: Climate, Carbon and Soils |
