Environment and Climate

Environment and Climate

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- Dr Miriam Byrne   miriam.byrne@universityofgalway.ie 

Indoor air quality

- Dr Marie Coggins   marie.coggins@universityofgalway.ie 

Human exposure assessment, indoor air quality. Dr Coggins has previously written for The Conversation

- Liz Coleman   mary.coleman@universityofgalway.ie 

Climate, air pollution, science education

- Professor Peter Croot   peter.croot@universityofgalway.ie  

Climate change in the marine environment, marine biogeochemistry, chemical speciation, marine bio-optics, geoengineering, primary productivity – picoplankton, Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), trace metal chemistry, open ocean environments

- Dr William Finnegan   william.finnegan@universityofgalway.ie 

Renewable energy from wind, wave and tidal

- Dr Magdalena Hajdukiewicz   magdalena.hajdukiewicz@universityofgalway.ie

Sustainable built environment, nearly zero-energy buildings, indoor environmental quality (IEQ), computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of indoor environments, structural and environmental building performance monitoring and modelling, control optimisation of energy efficient buildings and quality inspections during construction processes

- Dr Tiernan Henry   tiernan.henry@universityofgalway.ie 

Hydrology/hydrogeology, peatland hydrology, karst limestone and karst areas, flooding, coastal hydrology, metals and groundwater, geothermal energy, and the culture of water

- Dr Sheila Malone   sheila.malone@universityofgalway.ie 

Sustainable consumption and production, tourism, community well-being, place marketing, branding, consumption of blue (seascapes) and green spaces for health and well-being, and sustainability and cities 

- Dr Richard Manton   Richard.Manton@universityofgalway.ie 

Sustainability in higher education, environmental social, and governance (ESG), sustainable transportation, greenways, and engineering regulation 

- Dr Thomas McDermott   thomas.mcdermott@universityofgalway.ie 

Economics of climate change, climate impacts and adaptation, for example issues related to extreme weather events and how these interact with economic development, housing markets, planning and spatial development 

- Dr Patrick McGetrick   patrick.mcgetrick@universityofgalway.ie  

Civil, structural and timber engineering, Irish timber properties, structural design and analysis, engineered wood products and mass timber, structural performance testing, structural dynamics, structural health monitoring of bridges, life cycle assessment and embodied carbon, and novel steel connections

- Dr Rory Monaghan   rory.monaghan@universityofgalway.ie 

Electric cars, fossil fuels, renewable/sustainable energy, hydrogen, and energy systems

- Dr Liam Morrison   liam.morrison@universityofgalway.ie 

Environmental pollution, water quality, drinking water, marine science, microplastics, seaweed and seagrasses

- Dr Anne Mullen   anne.mullen@universityofgalway.ie 

Nutrition, hunger, food security, food systems, food policy, sustainable development goals, sustainable diets, milk and dairy, citizen science

- Dr Jurgita Ovadnevaite   jurgita.ovadnevaite@universityofgalway.ie 

Atmospheric composition, air pollution, and short term climate forcers

- Dr Martin Sharkey   martin.sharkey@universityofgalway.ie 

Persistent organic pollutants, substances of very high concern and persistent bioaccumulative/mobile and toxic substances, perfluoroalkyl substances, halogenated flame retardants, indoor and outdoor environmental monitoring, waste management (recycling, landfilling, and wastewater treatment), textile recycling, human biomonitoring, and X-ray fluorescence. Dr Sharkey has also written for The Conversation

- Professor Charles Spillane   charles.spillane@universityofgalway.ie 

Sustainable development, climate change, developing countries, agriculture, food security, poverty reduction, hunger, food systems, sustainable diets, genetics, biotechnology, interdisciplinarity, SDGs

- Dr David Styles   david.styles@universityofgalway.ie 

Environmental sustainability, in particular life cycle assessment of products, e.g. carbon footprints, greenhouse gas emission modelling, sustainable agriculture, and forestry and wood products

- Dr Brian Ward   bward@universityofgalway.ie    

Role of the ocean in climate, ocean-atmosphere exchange of carbon dioxide, ocean robotic instrumentation, and surface ocean physics

- Dr Nora Ward   nora.ward@universityofgalway.ie    

Environmental and climate ethics, animal ethics, and rewilding and conservation policy. Dr Ward has written numerous articles for The Conversation