Dr Kieran Craven - Assistant Professor

Name: Dr. Kieran Craven

Research Area

My research aims to reconstruct past environments; particularly coastal environments and former sea-levels. I am involved in refining and applying multi-proxy techniques to quantify environmental change using both microfossils and geochemical approaches (organic and inorganic). One recent area of my work has focussed on applying stable isotope techniques in estuarine environments to identify changing vegetation patterns that provide information on relative sea-levels. By understanding the past, we are better equipped to deal with future changes that might arise through climate warming. I am also involved in tracing the flow of sediment and organic material through contemporary coastal environments.

Contact Details

Department of Geology
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Email: cravenki@tcd.ie Tel: + 353 1 8961074

Teaching

This year I am teaching on GL2205 Dynamic Earth I: rocks and evolution and at Sophister level on GL3301: Sedimentary Petrology: from sediment to rock. I am also teaching a variety of modules at NUI Maynooth.

Publications and Research output

Craven, K.F., Edwards, R.J., Flood, R. Source organic matter analysis of estuarine sediments using SIAR. In prep

Craven, K.F., Edwards, R.J., Goodhue, R., Rocha, C. Evaluating the influence of selected acid pre-treatment methods on the environmental interpretation of C/N and δ13C from temperate inter-tidal sediments. Submitted

Craven, K.F., Bird, M.I., Austin, W.E.N. & Wynn, J. (2008) Isotopic variability in the intertidal acorn barnacle Semibalanus balanoides: a potentially novel sea-level proxy indicator. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 303, 173-185.