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2023

19th December: IRC Research Ally Prize 2023

18th August: New instruments for high precision land surveying arrive at UCD

24th February: NCIG takes delivery of a new Thermo Scientific Neoma MC-ICP-MS instrument

2022

22nd October: Hook Head Peninsula Fieldtrip

18th July: UCD team win Next Generations Explorers Award for innovation

2021

20th August: Software agreement with Baker Hughes

6th July: Maeve Boland elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America

18th January: New faculty - Dr Kara English

2020

8th December: New faculty – four Ad Astra Fellows

8th December: Dr Laia Comas-Bru awarded WCRP/GCOS Data Prize

17th August: Dr William Foster Nature Geoscience Publication

22nd May: Professor Stephen Daly Nature Geoscience Publication

23rd April: UCD's School of Earth Sciences collaboration with Irish-based NGO Self Help Africa

7th April: Swampy rainforests in Antarctica dated to the mid-Cretaceous

2nd April: Professor Frank McDermott Nature Publication

2019

30th November: UCD Geology Workshop 2019

28th November: The Blue Book Project

20th November: IGA Diamond Jubilee Special Lecture By Dr Padhraig Kennan

19th November: Geophysics field campaign on mt Etna

24th October: Dr William Foster Wiley research article publication

10th October: Dr Sam Kelley JQS Publication

23rd September: Dr Srikumar Roy Review article 'Hydrate occurrence in Europe: A review of available evidence'

10th August: SGA 2019 Biennial Meeting in Glasgow, pre-conference field trip

8th June: UCD Festival 2019

21st January: Dr Chris Mark awarded SFI Starting Investigator Research Grant

2018

23rd October: UCD Geology Workshop - Saturday 24th November 2018

8th June: TOSCA travels to the Mid-Atlantic ridge and discovers an other-worldly landscape16th May: UCD School of Earth Sciences-led international expedition, TOSCA, sets sail

6th April: Piecing Together the Big Picture on Water and Climate

23rd March: Prof John Walsh awarded 2017 RIA Gold Medal14th March: Dr Laia Comas Bru and Dr Lola Yeasares awarded Charlemont grants

23rd January: UCD Science Transition Year Week of workshops running 12th - 16th February

8th January: Assoc Professor Eoghan Holohan with Dr Simone Fiaschi awarded Irish Research Council funding

2017

28th December: Dr Aggeliki Georgiopoulou Irish Times interview: Drilling the seabed for answers to Earth’s mysteries

14th December: Sandbox simulation of a tectonic collision zone (Module: GEOL30350 - Geological Structures)

29th November: Dr Aggeliki Georgiopoulou Sets Sail on IODP exp 372

27th October: Four Projects Awarded GSI Funding

19th October: Dr Shane O'Reilly's research paper on the preservation of preen glands to be published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences

14th June: Dr Steven Hollis awarded Geological Survey Ireland grant

13th June: Dr Aggeliki Georgiopoulou awarded a Fulbright-Geological Survey Ireland Scholarship

12th June: Dr Laia Comas Bru awarded EAG Ambassador Award

7th June: Professor John Walsh awarded Geological Society of London’s William Smith medal

11th April: Dr Koen Torremans awarded Horizon 2020 Grant6th April: UCD SPE Student Chapter Lecture by Dr. John O’Sullivan, Technical Director, Providence Resources, Dublin

27th March: Recently completed PhD student Eva Eibl has three papers published

13th March: Invitation to sail on IODP exp. 372 for Dr Aggeliki Georgiopoulou

18th January: Royal Irish Academy Charlemont grant awarded to Dr Srikumar Roy13th January: Royal Irish Academy Charlemont grant awarded to Dr Steven Hollis

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