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UCD research helping hemp bloom
Rainer Melzer’s lab at UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science has been exploring how industrial hemp forms flowers which could help to fine-tune its cultivation for important products such as fibres and medicinal chemicals, as well as sequestering carbon from the atmosphere.
Creating a Podcast as an Academic
Creating an educational podcast can be a challenging but equally rewarding and learning experience for an academic says Dr Páraic Carroll
In Conversation: Reporting on the Climate Crisis with the Journal's Lauren Boland
Tuesday 8 October, 15.00
About UCD Earth Institute
The UCD Earth Institute fosters multidisciplinary research and works with stakeholders to address global, regional and national environmental challenges.
Based in University College Dublin’s Belfield campus, the Institute is a focal point for UCD’s environmental, climate and sustainability research and is home to state-of-the-art research facilities.
Our community has world-leading and wide-ranging environmental, climate and sustainability research expertise, with over 250 full and associate members is drawn from across UCD’s six constituent Colleges.
The wide range of expertise within the Institute ensures that we can inform and lead policy in focused disciplines and in multidisciplinary topics.
We foster entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity and technology commercialisation, while our researchers work directly with commercial partners across a range of industries.
We strive to produce research that makes a demonstrable contribution to society, with our researchers working closely with the communities most affected by their work.