Research Impact Case Study and Images of Research Finalists

Congratulations to Dr Eoghan Holohan, finalist in the Research Impact Case Study competition, and to Dr Sam Kelley and Dr Ivan Lokmer for becoming finalists in the Images of Research competition.

Dr Eoghan Holohan

The AI2Peat project led by Dr Eoghan Holohan (UCD SES) and Dr Corrado Grappiolo (UCD, CeADAR) was selected as a finalist in the 2025 UCD Research Impact Case Study Competition. The (opens in a new window)AI2Peat project uses earth observation, artificial intelligence, and expert ecological knowledge to map and monitor peatlands across Ireland. For more information on this case study see here. 

Dr Sam Kelley

The photograph, entered in the Images of Research competition, shows a series of icebergs stranded in a dry lake basin in western Greenland. Anthropogenic warming of Earth's climate has driven recession of the Greenland Ice Sheet, in this case removing the ice, which dammed this lake basin. These stranded icebergs are emblematic of the rapid landscape changes the Arctic faces as climate warms.   

Dr Ivan Lokmer

The image I submitted in the Images of Research competition is an example of numerical simulations that play a key role in understanding seismic wave propagation across volcanoes and improving our knowledge of the link between seismic sources and the physical processes within volcanoes. This particular example shows a snapshot of the seismic wavefield generated by a 600 m deep long-period seismo-volcanic event on Mt Etna. The subsurface in the simulations is homogeneous, so the departure of the wavefield from circular symmetry is caused exclusively by seismic wave scattering on the volcano topography (note the strong scattering on the eastern part of the volcano, in the Valle del Bove).

All the finalists and overall winner of the Images of Research competition can be viewed here.