Dr Paul Bolger is manager of the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from The Queen’s University of Belfast and has a Masters in Business Administration from The Open University. He joined the ESAI Council in 2007.
email: chairperson@esaiweb.org
Alan has been involved in the modelling of river, estuaries, coasts and open seas for the past ten years and has worked to date on projects in both the EU and Asia, for private clients, local authorities, state departments and international development banks. Alan has authored / co-authored over fifty professional reports for various clients and co-authored six peer-reviewed scientific articles.
Alan holds an honours degree, (B.A., B.A.I.), in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering from the University of Dublin, Trinity College, and a masters degree (M.Eng.Sc.) in Civil Engineering from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is a member of Engineers Ireland and a council member of the Environmental Science Association of Ireland.
email: alan.berry@marine.ie
Nuala Murphy is currently undertaking postgraduate research in the Geography Department, NUI Maynooth on climate change and its possible effects on flooding in the Suir catchment. Before that she worked in ESB for seventeen years in various administrative and clerical positions. Her interests include community resilience in the face of climate change and how people can lower their carbon footprint both individually and at community level.
email: treasurer@esaiweb.org
John Wann is a fully qualified botanist and a full member of IEEM with particular interest in Irish and International wildlife habitats especially forest conservation worldwide. He has surveyed wildlife in the Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland and carried out his MSc. research thesis on Upper Montane Rainforest in the southern Ecuadorean Andes. In 2003, John established the Ecological consultancy Aulino Wann & Associates based in Co. Antrim.
email: editor@esaiweb.org
Timothy Sullivan grew up close to Lough Hyne Marine Reserve in West Cork and graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Environmental Science from University College Cork in 2005. He joined the School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University in November 2007 as a postgraduate student of Prof. Fiona Regan under the Beaufort Marine Research Awards, and is now part of the newly formed Marine and Environmental Sensing Technology Hub (MESTECH).
Tim’s research involves the improvement of marine sensing technologies and focuses on improving environmental sensor lifetimes in the field by developing novel, non-toxic methods for prevention of the growth of biological material on deployed sensors (biofouling). This work involves elements of ecology, biology and chemistry as well as environmental monitoring.
email: timothy.sullivan2@mail.dcu.ie
Martina Prendergast is a Microbiologist with a Ph.D. from the National University of Ireland, Galway. She was a Health Research Board Postdoctoral Fellow at NUI, Galway for three years and lectured in the Dept. of Microbiology for 4 years on a part-time basis. She was appointed to the position of Development Manager with the Environmental Change Institute in 2003, where her role involves the management and co-ordination of the operational functions of the Institute.
email: martina.prendergast@nuigalway.ie
Dr. Tom Curran is a graduate of UCD's Engineering programme, holding a BE (Ag & Food), MEngSc (Environmental Engineering) and a PhD in Biosystems Engineering. He has worked in production and environmental management in the food industry for a number of years before returning to UCD as a staff member in the Biosystems Engineering discipline. His main research interests are in the measurement, abatement and dispersion modelling of odour and other gases from the agrifood and waste management industries. His work also incorporates sustainable water management and ozone technology. His teaching centres on the application of environmental engineering in the agrifood and bioresource industries.
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Aoife graduated with a degree in Botany from Trinity College Dublin and continued on to complete a Masters of Research in Biodiversity and Conservation at the University of Leeds. Her main interests during both her undergraduate and Masters degrees were the effects of anthropogenic change on biodiversity. Since leaving college she has worked for some years in ecological consultancy and research. As a consultant ecologist with BEC Consultants, she project manages and takes part in field surveys, data analysis and data management, writing reports and tenders and giving talks and presentations at conferences. Although the main thrust of her work is botanical, Aoife also takes part in bird survey in a voluntary capacity.
email: adelaney@botanicalenvironmental.com
Dr Shane Colgan has a degree in Agricultural and Food Engineering from UCD where he also obtained a M.Eng.Sc and a PhD. He has worked with the Environmental Protection Agency since 2001 and directs EPA funding activities in the area of Sustainable Environment – including Environment & Health. Shane also oversees communication and dissemination activities for the research programme.
email: s.colgan@epa.ie
Dr. Cara Augustenborg is the director of Impact Research Management (researchmanagement.ie), a project management and proposal development consultancy for the research community. She received her doctorate in Environmental Science and Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and previously worked for Teagasc, University College Dublin, and Trinity College Dublin. Cara was the Irish Ambassador for Ben & Jerry's Climate Change College and participated in an Arctic expedition in 2008 as part of the college.
email: impactrm@gmail.com
email: damian.dublin@gmail.com
Dr. Patrick J. Purcell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering UCD. He is programme coordinator for the B.E. (Civil) degree. He is a past chairman of the Water and Environment section of Engineers Ireland. Dr. Purcell’s research interest is in the area of water resources engineering and he is the author of a textbook ‘Design of Water Resources Systems’, published by Thomas Telford, London.
email: PJ.Purcell@ucd.ie
Kevin is a graduate of UCC’s Department of Geology (B.Sc. Earth Science) and University of Ulster’s School of Environmental Sciences (M.Sc. Environmental Management). He has been working for some time with Cork City Council where he works in the area of waste management and recycling. He is currently part of the team restoring and rehabilitating the old city landfill site at Kinsale Road. As part of his work he is also undertaking part-time postgraduate research in to treatment of landfill leachate using natural systems under the supervision of Dr. A.R. Allen, Department of Geology, UCC.
email: kevin_ryan@corkcity.ie
John Gallagher is currently in his final year as a PhD Researcher in the Dept. of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering in TCD. John’s research focus is in the field of Environmental Engineering, specifically Air Pollution Controls. He has spent the past 10 years in 3rd level education and is a previous graduate of the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and Queens University Belfast. He aims to continue his research in the future as a researcher and academic. In addition to his Ph.D., John is taking the Graduate Certificate in Innovation as Entrepreneurship and is keen to link Innovation with Research in Engineering.
email: gallagj2@tcd.ie
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