Events

Mar
20

UCD CESRAM: Climate, Environment, Sustainability Research Administrators and Managers Coffee & Chat meet up

Wednesday 20 March 11:00, Earth Institute Kitchen, 4th Floor, Science East

Are you a research manager/administer, research project manager or any other professional support role working with climate, environmental or sustainability researchers? We will have our second CESRAM coffee and chat meeting on 20 March. Anyone whose work involves supporting or managing research in these areas, whether on a funded project, as part of an institute, centre or school, or otherwise is welcome to attend. We decided last month to continue an informal monthly coffee and chat to find out what people are working on, build a network and share useful information. Any questions email Caitriona.Devery@ucd.ie 

 

 

Mar
21

Autobiographical landscapes

Luke Casserly, Earth Institute artist-in-residence, Autobiographical Landscapes 

10.45am, 4th floor kitchen, UCD Science East  |  11.00am on Zoom

Luke Casserly is a performance maker from Longford, Ireland whose work examines the intersection of live performance and physical landscape. During the session, we will look at the idea of place as a starting point. Each person attending is invited to bring along an object from the first landscape they ever encountered - this could be something literally from that place or something more symbolic / poetic that serves as a reminder of it. This tapestry of objects will form a brief show and tell, designed to open out conversations around our relationship to landscape through an autobiographical lens. Luke will speak about his own creative practice during the session, and share some insights into a new project he is currently developing with the support of UCD Earth Institute.

Mar
26

UCD Earth Institute Democracy and the Environment Series I: Rural Transitions

UCD Earth Institute Democracy and the Environment Series I: Rural Transitions

Tuesday 26 March, 12.30-2pm at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI)

Free registration on Eventbrite

The UCD Earth Institute presents the 'Democracy and the Environment Series', a sequence of seminars and discussions focused on the role of democracy and the environment, citizen trust in public institutions, and the sustainability agenda in the context of the local and presidential elections.

The seminar will be opened by UCD Earth Institute Director Professor Eoin O'Neill and contributors include Dr Karen Keaveney, Kieran Harrahill, and Dr Andrew Forde, Department of Rural and Community Development.

This event will be hosted in person at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) in Dublin, and capacity is limited. Advanced registration is required.

Mar
27

Joint Earth Institute / Dooge Centre for Water Resources Research lecture by Michel Bechtold, KU Leuven

Satellite-based data assimilation for the estimation of water cycle components by Michel Bechtold, KU Leuven, a joint Earth Institute and Dooge Centre for Water Resources Research lecture

Wednesday 27 March, 4pm at O’Brien Science Centre Room H2.20

The rapidly growing availability of land surface satellite data offers new opportunities to estimate various components of the water cycle via satellite-based land data assimilation (DA) across multiple scales and environments. In this presentation, Michel Bechtold from KU Leuven will present concepts of satellite-based land DA and own recent applications in peatland, agriculture, irrigation, vegetation and streamflow modelling. A specific focus will be given on the land models in a DA framework and their crucial task to propagate the observed information to constrain additional unobserved state and flux variables. It will be discussed that this task often comes with challenges that need to be addressed through either advancements in the DA setup or improved process modelling.

Mar
28

Building offshore wind in the quaternary

Mark Coughlan, UCD School of Earth Sciences

10.45am, 4th floor kitchen, UCD Science East  |  11.00am on Zoom

The Earth Institute coffee morning research talk series runs each Thursday morning in-person and online. Join us to find out about new environmental and sustainability research and initiatives, from UCD and beyond - tea, coffee, cake and biscuits from 10.45 - all welcome!

Apr
04

Research Culture across Europe

Thursday 4 April, 16:00, Richview research hub large boardroom, followed by tea/coffee.

Organised by Earth Institute Research Culture & EDI committee and C-NEWTRAL Doctoral Network.

Research Culture encompasses the way we do our research, our behaviours and attitudes to each other in our work, how we value the contributions of others involved in our research and how our research is communicated. As part of the launch of new Doctoral Network C-NEWTRAL and the initiation of the new Earth Institute Research Culture & Equality Diversion and Inclusion Committee, partners from C-NEWTRAL will talk about Research Culture in their institutions. Join us for an informal chat about research culture across Europe followed by tea and coffee. 

Speakers

Dr Lucia Alexandra Popartan, Laboratory of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. University of Girona

Associate Professor Jacopo Gaspari, Department of Architecture, University of Bologna

Register to attend.

 

Apr
11

Theorising Research Ecologies? An Environmental Humanities Symposium

Theorising Research Ecologies? An Environmental Humanities Symposium. 11th April, H204 UCD Humanities Institute (hybrid).

How can the environmental humanities expand to consider ‘research environment’ as a form of environment? How do factors such as location, networking, and working conditions matter to the environmental critic? Through a day of discussions, presentations, and provocations, this event advances the environmental humanities in new place-based and politically engaged directions.

Keynotes: Dr Michelle Bastian and Dr Sam Solnick.

Free to attend in-person or online: https://forms.gle/YSDZiFbWaRGaFFnb6

Some travel bursaries are available for Ireland-based early career researchers - see application form [Word document]

Full event details [pdf form]

A collaboration between MARBEFES (Ashley Cahillane) and Cultural Imaginaries of Just Transitions (Treasa DeLoughry). Funded by the UCD Humanities Institute, the UCD Earth Institute, and the UCD College of Arts and Humanities. Email ashley.cahillane@ucd.ie for more details.

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