Associate Professor Mary Kelly-Quinn (Project Coordinator)
School of Biology and Environmental Science, UCD
email: mary.kelly-quinn@ucd.ie
Mary Kelly-Quinn is a lecturer in the School of Biology and Environmental Science. Her primary research activities focus on the assessment of land-use and other anthropogenic activities on the hydrochemical and ecological quality of surface waters. She has completed studies on the aquatic habitats of peatlands, agricultural, upland, urban and forested landscapes (HYDROFOR) as well as canals and constructed wetlands. Much of her research contributes to the information needs of the Water Framework Directive. She been a partner in several national projects such as RIVTYPE, WATERAC, FORWAT, HYDROFOR and PATHWAYS. Current multi-partner projects include Reconnect (www.ucd.ie/reconnect), and two on ecosystem services ESManage (www.ucd.ie/esmanage) and the recently funded ESDecide.
Professor Michael Bruen
School of Civil Engineering, UCD
email: michael.bruen@ucd.ie
Michael Bruen has been a member of the Academic staff at UCD since 1991 and is Professor of Environmental Hydrology at UCD. He has been Principle investigator on EU and Irish funded research projects and has been involved in over 20 research projects to a total value of 15M euro. He has particular expertise in: (i) Computer methods and modelling in water resources and environmental engineering; (ii) Surface water and groundwater supply and protection from contamination; (iii) Effects of climate change on water resources; iv) Catchment models and flow forecasting, both flood flows and low flows, in particular distributed catchment modelling, erosion and water quality; and v) Applications of multicriteria decision support methods (MCA), public participation in environmental decisions and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in water resources engineering. He is Associated Editor of the Journal of Hydrology and is on the Editorial Board of Hydrological Research.
Assisstant Professor Jens Carlsson
School of Biology and Environmental Science, UCD
email: jens.carlsson@ucd.ie
Jens Carlsson's research interests are in conservation, ecological and population genetics, as well as evolutionary biology. He employs genetic tools at population and individual levels to study genetic questions (gene flow, genetic drift, effective population size and selection) and to couple genetics with behaviours (kin-biased behaviours, reproductive success, mate choice, migratory behaviour and life-history). He is also interested in conservation genetics, functional genomics and studies that combine population genetics, behaviour and ecology. In addition, he is interested in theoretical population genetics based on simulations and co-evolution of host-parasite systems. His research is primarily focused on aquatic organisms including fishes, shellfish and hydrothermal vent and methane seep fauna.
Professor Angela Gurnell
School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London
email: a.m.gurnell@qmul.ac.uk
Angela Gurnell is Professor of Physical Geography at QMUL, having previously been Professor of Physical Geography at King’s College London (where she was Head of the Geography Department) and the University of Birmingham. She has a research track record stretching back over 45 years during which she has published over 200 scientific papers. She has conducted a wide range of both fundamental and applied research in hydrology and river geomorphology. Much of her research has been concerned with the way riparian and aquatic plants and large wood interact with fluvial processes to drive the morphodynamics of rivers and floodplains. Indeed, with Ken Gregory, she wrote the first British papers on the geomorphological importance of large wood and riparian trees for river morphodynamics (Hydrological Sciences Journal, 1985, Hydrological Processes, 1986). This fundamental research has led to applied work on river restoration, including collaborative projects funded by the EU and NERC. Recently, she led work package 2 of the EU-funded REFORM project, which developed a space-time framework for developing integrated understanding of hydrogeomorphology. She is familiar with a wide range of geomorphological mapping and assessment approaches and also hydrological field and data analysis methods and has developed river survey methods for application by practitioners and citizen scientists (MoRPh – (opens in a new window)www.modularriversurvey.org, URS – (opens in a new window)www.urbanriversurvey.org).
Assistant Professor Jeremy J. Piggot
School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
email:Jeremy.Piggott@tcd.ie
Jeremy J. Piggott is Assistant Professor in Aquatic Biology at Trinity College Dublin. He is an Irish Research Council Laureate, Vice President of the International Society of Limnology (SIL), Lead Author for the Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and Co-PI on current EPA projects SSNet (2017-W-LS-14) and IMPACT (2017‐W‐MS‐31). His research seeks to understand how multiple stressors interact to affect biodiversity and ecosystem services in freshwaters.
Professor Helen Jarvie
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
email: hpj@ceh.ac.uk
Helen Jarvie is a Principle Scientist in Hydrochemistry at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (U.K), and a visiting Professor at the University of Arkansas (U.S.A.), University of Tokyo (Japan) and Plymouth University (U.K.). Helen’s research encompasses river-system biogeochemistry with particular emphasis on nutrient (phosphorus and nitrogen) cycling and water quality, from watershed to global perspectives. A major area is the role of nutrients in river eutrophication worldwide, and how improved nutrient stewardship can help ensure the future resilience of our river water quality and water resource security. For further information and publications, please see: (opens in a new window)http://www.ceh.ac.uk/staff/helen-jarvie
Edward Cox B.Sc. M.Sc.
School of Biology and Environmental Science, UCD
email: edward.cox.1@ucdconnect.ie
Edward Cox is a PhD student on the SSNet Team. He completed his B.Sc. in Zoology in University College Dublin and an M.Sc. in Applied Environmental Science, also in UCD, graduating in 2017. Prior to joining the SSNet Project he worked as a Freshwater Ecologist with RPS seconded to the EPA. Edward has a keen interest in the ecology of freshwaters, particularly in how river morphology affects community structure and functioning. Edward looks forward to building on his existing skills during his time working on the SSNet project.
Sinead Hogan M.Sc.
UCD Dooge Centre for Water Resources Research
email: (opens in a new window)sinead.hogan1@ucdconnect.ie
Sinéad is a PhD researcher on the SSNet project team. Having been a secondary teacher for 12 years, she changed direction with an MSc. in Environmental Science from Trinity College, Dublin. The focus of her research within the project is the characterisation of a portion of Ireland’s small stream network based on current and historic nutrient water quality conditions coupled with the influence of a variety of landscape factors. Research interests include water quality management and citizen science.