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Unless otherwise stated the programme for IGRM 2019 will be held in the O'Brien Science Centre, number 67 on the UCD Campus Map.

Posters should be presented as A0 portrait format only. Talks should last 12 minutes with 3 minutes for questions. Powerpoint 2013 on a Windows PC is available; contact the organisers at (opens in a new window)igrm2019@gmail.com to discuss alternatives. Two different slides cannot be shown at the same time. The A/C system is optimised for 16:9 aspect ratio; slides in 4:3 aspect ratio project much smaller. 

Undergraduate Poster Presentations
Number Poster Title Presenting Author
1 Using Airborne LiDAR to identify and map glacial geomorphology and landforms in Co. Roscommon Weston Harding
2 Magnetic Fabrics and Remnant Magnetism of the Fair Head Sill, Co. Antrim: Testing Emplacement Linked to the Great Gaw Fault Elspeth Jamieson
3 A mineralogical and geofluids study of gold bearing quartz veins from the north-west of Ireland Shane McQuillan
4 Airborne Electromagnetic Datasets from the Tellus Programme: Quantitative Analysis of the Role of the Flight Altitude Parameter on the Resulting Subsurface Inversion Models Méabh Ní Mhuilleoir
5 Ground Penetrating Radar investigation of Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon Jeromine Schmidt
Poster Presentations
Number Poster Title Presenting Author
6 Characterizing the TELLUS Airborne EM anomaly over the Longford down inlier, Ireland through hyperspectral core scanning Connor Allen
7 Integrating gravity and surface elevation with magnetic data: Mapping the Curie Temperature beneath the British Isles and surrounding areas Eldar Baykiev
8 The link between stress, pore pressure, and subduction dynamics: Implications for offshore geohazards and resource development Effat Behboudi
9 Geological evolution and complex magmatic history of the Hatton Basin, northeast Atlantic Ocean Laura Berdi
10 Heavy metal analysis of peat using ETV-ICP-OES: A highly efficient technique for direct solid sampling Lucy Blennerhassett
11 SWEMDI_1.0: Space Weather Electromagnetic Database for Ireland Joan Campanya
12 SKS seismic anisotropy observations in mid-plate South America : Investigating mantle flow and effects of cratonic keels Bruna Chagas de Melo
13 The formation, evolution and characterisation of a tunnel valley system in the southern Irish Sea: An investigation of Wicklow Trough Mark Coughlan
14 Sediment Connectivity in Modern Deepwater Turbidite Systems: Examples and Implications John Counts
15 Exploring the characteristics of the Tuaheni Landslide Complex, Hikurangi Margin, offshore New Zealand Ben Couvin
16 Radon Potential as a diagnostic tool for indoor radon hazard mapping Quentin G Crowley
17 Eastern North Atlantic Mid-to-Late Holocene transition: Palaeoceanographic evidence and implications for atmospheric modes Michelle Curran
18 Investigating acoustic noise propagation across various continental margin settings Eoghan Daly
19 Correlated petrographic and isotopic studies (S, Pb) of high-grade Zn-Pb mineralization in the Island Pod orebody, Lisheen deposit, Ireland Aileen Doran
20 Using in-situ mineral geochemistry to safeguard the integrity of building structures: An Irish example Tadhg Dornan
21 Tara Deep Preliminary Observations: Setting, Mineralogy and S Isotopes Drew Drummond
22 PS-InSAR analysis of Sentinel-1 data for detecting ground motion in temperate oceanic climate zones: a case study in the Republic of Ireland Simone Fiaschi
23 Seismic reflection imaging of the crust using ambient noise autocorrelations Clara Gomez
24 Enhancing the Operational Capacity of the Irish National Seismic Network James Grannell
25 Three-dimensional electrical conductivity characterisation of Furnas and Fogo Volcanoes, São Miguel Island (Azores archipelago, Portugal), by magnetotelluric data Colin Hogg
26 Chemical anomalies in stream sediments associated with lithium pegmatites in Leinster, SE Ireland David Kaeter
27 3-D Magnetotelluric Imaging of the Lithosphere beneath Ireland Duygu Kiyan
28 Petrophysical Characterization of Highly Polarizable Rocks from the Moffat Shale Group (Ireland) Duygu Kiyan
29 Study of the Palaeoenvironments and Geological Setting of the Kilbride Peninsula, County Mayo Cameron Lane
30 The role of the continental shelf on ocean induced seismic surface waves generated offshore Ireland Florian Le Pape
31 Relating Catchment Lithology to Minor and Trace Elements in Irish Rivers W Berry Lyons
32 Submerged Landscapes of Ireland Eoin MacCraith
33 Spatio-temporal analysis of long term/short term shoreline change rates using remote sensing approaches Sojan Mathew
34 GEO-URBAN - Identification and assessment of deep GEOthermal heat resources in challenging URBAN environments James McAteer
35 The Iapetus suture zone in Ireland Brian McConnell
36 Thermodynamically constrained joint inversion of seismic refraction, surface elevation and gravity data for crustal composition and structure: application to the Porcupine Basin Dmitry Molodtsov
37 Deciphering the mineral-scale record of planetary scale processes Maeve Murphy Quinlan
38 The Next Generation of Irish Geoscientists: Exploring Attitude And Understanding Towards Geoscience At Junior Secondary Level In Ireland Emer Neenan
39 Geophysical remote sensing of subsurface properties for sustainable agricultural management David O'Leary
40 Temporal variability of cold-water coral habitats from the Porcupine Bank Canyon NE Atlantic, using ROV-vibrocoring, CT-scanning and PSA: preliminary results Luke O'Reilly
41 Biogeochemical modelling of soil organic carbon - insights into the processing procedures of selected atmospheric input data: Part I – an example from E-OBS climate datasets Alina Premrov
42 Biogeochemical modelling of soil organic carbon - insights into the processing procedures of selected atmospheric input data: Part II – atmospheric nitrogen deposition from EMEP datasets Alina Premrov
43 Preliminary LA-ICP-MS AFT & AHe Results Offshore West of Ireland Remi Rateau
44 Surface Deformation from Stalled Magma Eoin Reddin
45 A Quaternary Geological Map at 1:10,000 scale for the Keady Region, Northern Ireland Sam Roberson
46 Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from the mineralogy of the Pliocene Camp dels Ninots maar lake sediments (Catalan Volcanic Zone, NE Iberia) Pablo Rodriguez-Salgado
47 Structural style and timing of the inversion structures in the Celtic Sea basins (offshore Ireland): Insights from the Mizen Basin Pablo Rodriguez-Salgado
48 A New Raman Microscopy Facility at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UCC Richard Unitt
49 Improving the Groundwater Geochemistry Toolkit for Mineral Exploration Sean Wheeler
50 Northern Ireland one 14 new Regional Geological Visualisation Models Katie Whitbread
51 In situ S isotope analysis reveals genetic links between Irish-type deposits and related geochemical halos Lola Yesares

Time Talk Title Speaker  
14.00 - 15.00 Oceanic Anoxic Events 40 years on: the search for feedbacks supported by TCD Professor Hugh Jenkyns  
15.30 - 17.00 Application of multiple sulfur isotopes in geochemistry supported by the Fulbright Commission in Ireland & iCRAG Professor James Farquhar  
Icebreaker Reception supported by CNOOC Ireland 17.00 - 18.00
18.00 Mass extinctions and supercontinents supported by Geological Survey Ireland Professor Paul Wignall  

Session 1
Time Talk Title Speaker
08.50 - 09.00 Welcome and introduction Patrick Orr
09.00 - 09.15 Project SEA-SEIS: Structure, Evolution and Seismicity of the Irish offshore and the wider North Atlantic Sergei Lebedev
09.15 - 09.30 Analysis of equilibrium conditions for particle-laden flows: implications for sediment transport and geomorphology on Earth, Mars and Titan Lawrence Amy
09.30 - 09.45 Testing the ability of forward stratigraphic modelling to replicate tectono-sedimentary interactions in rift basins Eoin O'Donnell*  
09.45 - 10.00 CAIs give the Solar System’s age of 4567 Myr, but are they from the Solar System?  Ian Sanders 
10.00 - 10.15 Microstructural and physiochemical processes influencing fracture sealing in geothermal systems Aisling Scully* 
10.15 - 10.30 Comparing the relationship between sand fraction and connectivity using different conventional facies modelling methods Deirdre Walsh*
Morning break supported by Providence Resources 10.30 - 11.00
Session 2
Time Talk Title Speaker
11.00 - 11.15 Monitoring supratidal boulder deposits on Ireland’s west coast using structure-from-motion photogrammetry and quantitative differencing Rónadh Cox
11.15 - 11.30 Modelling of the 1755 Lisbon Tsunami Daniel Giles*
11.30 - 11.45 Modelling fluid flows around a boulder: consequences for initiation of motion James Herterich
11.45 - 12.00 Field measurements of extreme coastal waves on intertidal platforms using pressure sensors - Issues and Advances Pal Schmitt
12.00 - 12.15 UAV photogrammetry and 3D scan data for topographic mapping and monitoring of coastal areas Kieran Craven
12.15 - 12.30 Remote Sensing for Mapping Groundwater Floods in the Republic of Ireland Joan Campanya
Lunch 12.30 - 13.30
Session 3
Time Talk Title Speaker
13.30 - 13.45 Initial results from the first detailed study of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture zone Maria Judge
13.45 - 14.00 Simulating Storm Surges on the Irish West Coast: A Numerical Modelling Approach Nicole Beisiegel
14.00 - 14.15 Acoustic evidence of shallow gas and fluid seepage in the north Irish Sea Mark Coughlan
14.15 - 14.30 Mapping, Modelling and Monitoring Key Processes and Controls on Cold-water Coral Habitats in Submarine Canyons (MMMonKey_Pro) Aaron Lim
14.30 - 14.45 A New Approach to Compute Seismic Wave Velocities by Means of Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations (NEMD) Dolores Melgar Freire
14.45 - 15.00 Recent Advances in Diffraction Imaging: Enhancing existing methods vs. a machine learning approach Brydon Lowney*
Afternoon break supported by Providence Resources 15.00 - 15.30
Session 4
Time Talk Title Speaker
15.30 - 15.45 Late Triassic to early Jurassic stratigraphy & palaeoenvironments from Co. Antrim Ian Boomer
15.45 - 16.00 Alternative resources of the rare earth elements Eimear Deady*
16.00 - 16.15 Climate dynamics and the stable isotope hydrology of Irish River water during 2018 Anne Carey
16.15 - 16.30 The Geochemistry of Rivers in Ireland: a Snapshot W. Berry Lyons
16.30 - 16.45 Tellus More Jim Hodgson
16.45 - 17.00 Geoscience and Public Policy: What role should geoscientists play? Maeve Boland
17.00 - 17.15 Celebrating two decades of Earth Science Ireland Kirstin Lemon
Conference reception supported by Earth Science Ireland (ESI) 17.15 - 18.15
18.15 What controlled carbonate mineralogy through geological time? - supported by Tullow Oil Professor Rachel Wood
For those attending the conference dinner the bus will leave at 19.30

Session 1
Time Talk Title Speaker
09.00 - 09.30 Light breakfast and poster session supported by Providence Resources  
09.30 - 09.45 The origin and nature of a pervasive vein system within The Burren, Clare John Walsh
09.45 - 10.00 The Geology of Skellig Michael – Finally Revealed Patrick Meere
10.00 - 10.15 Viséan limestone, karst and the Galway Outer Bypass Megan Dolan*
10.15 - 10.30 The character of thin-bedded deposits associated with submarine channels: examples from the Ross Sandstone Formation, Co Clare Emma Morris
10.30 - 10.45 Rule-based models of deep-water lobes. What can we learn from them? Javier López-Cabrera* 
10.45 - 11.00 En-masse freezing of hybrid sediment gravity flows with implications for deep-marine carbon burial Arif Hussain*
Morning break supported by Providence Resources 11.00 - 11.30
Session 2
Time Talk Title Speaker
11.30 - 11.45 The Aïstopods (Tetrapodamopha) from the Jarrow Assemblage, Kilkenny, Ireland Aodhan O'Gogain* 
11.45 - 12.00 Experimental taphonomy of melanosomes: impact on trace element chemistry Valentina Rossi*
12.00 - 12.15 Response of melanosome chemistry to diagenesis explored through experimental maturation Chris Rogers
12.15 - 12.30 Dynamic Sand Supply to a Carboniferous Delta; Mixing and Matching with Multiple Provenance Proxies Bebhinn Anders*
12.30 - 12.45 Innovations in Raman Spectroscopy Analysis: Testing correlations between Raman spectra and radioactive decay Odhrán McCarthy*
12.45 - 13.00 Provenance of the Tullig Cyclothem sandstones from the Clare Basin: A multi-proxy approach Martin Nauton-Fourteu* 
Lunch 13.00 - 14.00
Session 3
Time Talk Title Speaker
14.00 - 14.15 Investigating the biochemical fidelity of fossil feathers using sulfur X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy (XANES) Tiffany Slater* 
14.15 - 14.30 A study of the evolution of colour patterns in fossil insects using geometric morphometrics James Jepson
14.30 - 14.45 Magnetic-Field Effects on Methane-Hydrate Kinetics and Potential Geophysical Implications: Insights from Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Niall English
14.45 - 15.00 Probabilistic Surface Heat Flow Estimates Assimilating Palaeoclimate History: New Implications for the Thermochemical Structure of Ireland’s Crust Thomas Farrell*
15.00 - 15.15 The three-dimensional geometry of relay zones within segmented normal faults Vincent Roche
15.15 - 15.30 A quantitative model for the internal structure of normal faults Tom Manzocchi
15.30 - 15.45 Conjugate relay zones and transfer of displacement between faults of opposed dip Conrad Childs
Award of prizes supported by Irish Geological Association (IGA) 15.45 - 16.15

On Monday 4th March Trinity College Dublin are hosting a workshop entitled 'LA-ICPMS Fundamentals, Instrumentation and Applications'. Please see their (opens in a new window)workshop page for more information.