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iCRAG, the Research Ireland Centre for Applied Geosciences, is pleased to invite you to join us at our research showcase, iCRAG@10: Evolving for a Changing World, in O’Reilly Hall, UCD, Dublin, on Thursday February 13th, 2025 at 9:00am.

Register to attend on eventbrite here.

2025 marks 10 years of iCRAG. Our showcase conference will reflect on the impact of iCRAG’s research over the past decade and explore the opportunities for future applied research topics to shape a sustainable society.

• The event will illustrate the evolution of iCRAG’s research portfolio in critical resources, the energy transition, geohazards, climate and environmental change and the societal dimensions of geoscience.
• Speakers and posters will highlight significant scientific contributions of multidisciplinary research in the Centre and how members integrate their research with extensive public engagement activities to increase the local and global reach of their discoveries, and deepen connections with public audiences.
• Early-career researchers will showcase their ongoing projects in a sequence of flash talks.
• International keynote speakers and a distinguished panel will highlight the importance of geoscience research in understanding and sustainably managing our natural resources and ecosystems and in helping to develop strategies to adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change.      

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Chris Jackson

Prof. Chris Jackson is Technical Director of Subsurface Storage at WSP and Visiting Professor, Imperial College, London. Prof. Jackson’s career has spanned academia and industry. In his current role, he is responsible for developing and delivering energy transition-related projects focused on geoenergy and geostorage. He is a noted geoscience communicator and has appeared in several Earth science focused TV programmes. Prof. Jackson has received many awards including the Geological Society of London’s Coke Medal and the AAPG’s Geoscience in the Media Award.

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Prof. Kikki Kleiven

Prof. Kikki Kleiven has a PhD from the University of Bergen with a Fulbright research grant at the University of Florida. Her doctoral studies focused on oceanic evidence of past variations in the ice sheets of Greenland and the Antarctic. She previously held a postdoctoral position at Columbia University in New York to study ocean currents and climate in the Southern Ocean. Currently Kikki is currently Head of Department at the University of Bergen and Director of the Bjerknes Centre. For almost a decade, she has worked for the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment and the Norwegian Environment Agency giving lectures on climate and environment to Norwegian high-school teachers and pupils, as well as university students.