Biography
Dr Stephen McCarron has been an active member of the national and international Quaternary geoscience research community since 1994. He currently teaches Physical Geography at Maynooth University Department of Geography, and conducts research in onshore and offshore glacial sediments. In 2009 he established and currently manages the Irish Sediment Core Research Facility (ISCORF) within the ICARUS climate change research cluster. Before that he was involved in research projects at the University of Ulster and the Minerals Section, Geological Survey of Ireland; in the Junior Mining Sector, Ireland and has also taught GIS in Trinity College Dublin.
My research involves the search for geological evidence of former ice sheet extents and dynamics on the island of Ireland and on its continental shelf. I am actively involved in a number of research projects with several research teams on aspects of the glacial records associated with past Irish Ice Sheets both onshore and offshore Ireland.
To this end I established a research laboratory at Maynooth University in 2009 to facilitate the analysis of sediment cores from palaeoclimatic archives. The Irish Sediment Core Research Facility (ISCORF) is a nationally accessible geoscience focussed laboratory comprising equipment, expertise, working and storage space dedicated to the analysis of sediment core physical properties. The lab clusters around a GeoTek Multi Sensor Core Logger (MSCL), a grouping of geophysical sensors that allow the rapid, non-invasive high precision quantification of sediment seismic velocity, magnetic susceptibility, bulk density, colour/visual reflectance and electrical resistivity.
Role
- iCRAG Investigator
Institution
- NUIM
Research Area
- Safeguard the Geomarine Environment
Expertise
- Ireland's Seabed, GIS, Glacial Landforms, Marine Seismics, Quaternary, Sedimentology
