Jenny McElwain is Marie Curie Team Leader and Lecturer in the School of Biology & Environmental Science. Her research is focused on using fossilised plants to reconstruct how greenhouse gases have fluctuated over the past 250 million years.
Dr Jenny McElwain – BA (Botany), PhD (Paleobotany)
Dr McElwain has spearheaded a project to establish a €900,000 laboratory, which will simulate the atmospheric conditions of any past or future time period. A world first for UCD and due to open in 2008, the facility will allow her team to predict how future atmospheric conditions will affect plant life and make recommendations about what needs to be done to mitigate the effects of global warming.
Dr McElwain’s teaching activities include co-ordinating a fourth-year module within the Botany Degree and lecturing on several other modules, supervising five PhD students, three postdoctoral research associates and numerous undergraduate student research projects.
