Prof Anna Davies

Prof Celia Holland

Prof Fraser Mitchell

cholland@tcd.ie

Environmental governance, biodiversity conservation policy and politics

Parasitology, public health

Ecology, palaeocology

Aquatic ecology, marine zoology.

Higher plant taxonomy, biodiversity, conservation.

Innovative solutions for buildings, neighbourhoods and cities.

Water and wastewater treatment, river pollution assessment and control, assessment of carbon emissions.

Ecological and evolutionary systems modelling.

Applied microeconometric analysis of individual and household behaviour.

Plant evolution, tropical plant ecology.

Ecology of communities and metacommunities, aquatic ecosystems, spatial and temporal patterns, perturbations.

Biodiversity and ecology, pollination, entomology, invasive species

Conservation biology, mammal ecology, ornithology.

Soil respiration and carbon stocks, plant cell anatomy.

Environmental engineering, water management, pollution.

Behavioural and evolutionary ecology

Ecology of surface waters.

Fossil and living bryozoa, geology, palaeontology, palaeoecology.

Dan Bradley

Evolutionary biology, plant phenology, genetics.

Plant systematics, molecular biology, population genetics

Genetics

Joanne Rourke

Fabio Boylan

Geography

Pharmacy

Macroecology and Macroevolution

Prof David Jeffrey

Dr Julian Reynolds

Climate change, carbon balance, biofuels.

Botany, ecology.

Freshwater ecology.

Dr Paul Dowding

Botany, ecology.

Environmental planning and policy, spatial analysis, impact assessment

Invasive species, pollination, temperate and tropical forest ecology

Behavioural ecology, urban ecology, invasive species.

Applied fisheries biology.

Badger biology, island biogeography, trophic ecology.

Landscape ecology, global change impacts on biodiversity, agri-environment, plant-soil relationships.

Conservation, African ecosystems, flamingo.

Forest ecology (plantation forests and native woodlands), botany, epiphytes.

Ecotoxicology, pollution, marine, water quality.

Dr Nova Sharkey 

Jesko Zimmermann

Eco-hydrology, turloughs.

Eco-hydrology, turloughs, plant-nutrient dynamics.

Bioenergy crops, soil carbon sequestration, Miscanthus.

Andrew Jackson

Angela Stevenson

Aoife O'Rourke

Climate change, biodiversity conservation policy.

Deep-sea ecology, cold-water corals, echinods, marine conservation

Biodiversity, plant-pollinator interactions, priority habitats.

Aude Perdereau 

Brian McGuinness

Brian Murphy

mcguinbw@tcd.ie

Willow, disease resistance, wood formation, carbon cycle.

Population studies and epidemiological studies of Escallonia leaf spot disease

Bryan Kennedy

Daniel Adjei-Boateng

The use of diatoms for the classification of lakes

Reproductive biology of African freshwater bivalves, population dynamics, production and resource allocation, sustainable exploitation.

Deirdre McClean

Examination of the effects of amplified water level fluctuations on the structure and functioning of lake ecosystems

Donna Hawthorne

Eileen Diskin

Emer Ní Dhúill

Modelling past and future fire regimes in the Irish uplands

Environmental health, science communication

Erin Jo Tiedeken 

Erna King

Florence Hecq

Pollination ecology, bee nutrition, secondary plant compounds, invasive alien species.

Meiofauna and free-living nematode diversity, salinity gradient effects, transitional waters and environmental quality.

Effects of scale and landscape structure on pollinator diversity and the provision of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes

Heather Rochford

Helder Pereira

Jennifer Michelle Ronan

Biological Effects of pollution in irish coastal waters

Aquatic ecology, dynamics of nutrients and algae, eutrophication, response of biological populations to water pollution.

Chemical measurements for the assessment of pollution in irish Coastal waters

Thomas Joe Colgan

Keith McMahon

Host-parasite interactions, invertebrate genomics, molecular entomology.

Plasticity of foraging strategies in birds

Kevin Healy

Laura Foley

Linda Daniels

Linking ecological processes to community patterns using stable isotopes

The effects of anthropogenically fixed nutrients delivered to coastal marine ecosystems via SGD on ecosystem function

Marine bivalve ecophysiology, feeding competition, resource partitioning.

Lindsay Hislop

Lisa Egan

Louise Esmonde

eganli@tcd.ie

Examination of the effects of amplified water level fluctuations on primary production in lakes.

Lagorosiphon major, wastewater treatment, biomass production

Sustainable nutrient and metal removal from domestic and industrial wastewaters using submerged macrophytes in temperate

Loxton
Karen

Luke McNally

Mafalda Viana

The significance of small rodents as sentinels for zoonotic parasites of human importance and vectors of parasites of domestic animals.

Theoretical ecology, population biology, marine turtle conservation.

Fisheries discards, spatio-temporal modelling.

Marcin Penk

Marjolein Kamermans

Ecosystem functioning, mysid crustaceans, physicochemical pressures,invasive species, glacial relicts.

Endemic freshwater shrimp, molecular phylogenetics, ecological and morphological divergence.

Maximilian von Sternburg 

Melinda Lyons 

Miles Newman

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

Biodiversity conservation, diversity of flora, petrifying springs.

Biodiversity conservation, forest management.

Patricia Coughlan

Paul Egan

pacoughl@tcd.ie

Phylogenetics of paclitaxel biosynthesis genes in Taxus baccata, Taxus hybrids and allies (yews)

Secondary plant compounds, invasive alien plants.

Ruby Prickett

Saliha Yesim Tunali 

Sarah Mullen 

Freshwater ecology, littoral macroinvertebrates, food-web ecology.

Biodiversity, plant-pollinator interactions, grasslands

Sarah Murnaghan

Sean Kelly

Shane McGuinness

Modelling ecological pressures and responses in a West of Ireland lake

Evolution of passerine birds on Indonesian islands of the Wakatobi 

Human-wildlife conflict, community-based conservation, wildlife value orientations.

Sheila Greene

Sinead Marley

Susan Olivia Mitchell

smarley@tcd.ie

Phosphorus-induced impairment of aquatic ecosystems: evaluating and predicting spatial differences in vulnerability and recovery

Agricultural and horticultural organic chemicals; freshwater ecosystems, risk assessment

The study of gill disease of cultured Atlantic salmon.

Susannah Cass 

Sven Batk

Tamara Jurca

Agroecology, biodiversity, legume crops.

Assessing epiphyte diversity of tropical montane forest in Honduras, Central America along altitudinal gradients - How do climate change and anthropogenic disturbances affect epiphyte diversity?

Freshwater ecology, benthic macroinvertebrates, freshwater Oligochaetes.

Vesela Evtimova

Vishnu Mohanan

William Burchill

mohananv@tcd.ie

burchilw@tcd.ie

Freshwater ecology, aquatic invertebrates, water-level fluctuations in lakes

Characterisation of lignin and cellulose formation genes in biomass

Nitrogen fixation, Nitrous oxide, legumes, grasslands