Project List
Active Projects
Earth Resources
Raw Materials Projects
- Geology of the Lubambe Cu-Co deposit, Zambia - Dr Aileen Doran (Funded via the SFI Research Professorship Award to Prof. Murray Hitzman)
- Hydrothermal and metamorphic mineral growth in the Central African Copperbelt - Dr Anna Bidgood (Funded via the SFI Research Professorship Award to Prof. Murray Hitzman)
- Earth Analytics - Application of Machine Learning and Data Analytics to Applied Geoscience - Dr Chris Burbidge (Funded via the SFI Research Professorship Award to Prof. Murray Hitzman)
- Ireland - Geochemical Vectors - Claire Geel (Funded via the SFI Research Professorship Award to Prof. Murray Hitzman)
- Characterization and geological setting of the Nautanen North Cu-Au deposit, Norrbotten, Sweden - David Drejing Carroll (Funded via the SFI Research Professorship Award to Prof. Murray Hitzman)
- Re-Os Geochronology - (Funded via the SFI Research Professorship Award to Prof. Murray Hitzman)
- Spodumene pegmatite haloes: characterization, exploration vectoring and ore potential - Elena Geiger
- Regional Scale Irish Zn-Pb deposits - Dr Eoin Dunlevy (Funded via the SFI Research Professorship Award to Prof. Murray Hitzman)
- Investigating the controls on mineralization at the Rosh Pinah deposit and implications for regional exploration - Halleluya Ekandjo (Funded via the SFI Research Professorship Award to Prof. Murray Hitzman)
- Halokinetic Structure in the Kipushi-Kalindi area (Zambia-DRC) and Comparison of the Paragenetic Sequence of Alteration and Mineralization in the Kipushi-Kalindi area with the Paragenetic Sequence at Kakanda (DRC) - Helen Twigg (Funded via the SFI Research Professorship Award to Prof. Murray Hitzman)
- Geochemical variation of the hydrothermal breccia in the Irish Ore Fields - Dr Nick Vafeas (Funded via the SFI Research Professorship Award to Prof. Murray Hitzman)
- Defining Basin Architectures within Eastern Andean Sedimentary Rock-hosted Stratiform Cu-Ag Systems, Peru Emphasising the Importance of Evaporites - Dr Pablo Rodriguez Salgado
- Regional variations in Carboniferous lithofacies and their links to basin and structural evolution within the Irish Zn-Pb Orefield - Rob Doyle
- Irish Pb-Zn Mineral Deposits: Stonepark, Tobermalug, Pallas Green, etc. in Co. Limerick - Dr Paul Slezak (Funded via the SFI Research Professorship Award to Prof. Murray Hitzman)
- Formation of Littoral and Offshore Irish Placer Resources (FLIPeR) - Siobhan Burke
- Geology, geochemistry, and mineralogy of the Fishtie deposit and its relationship to the Lusale Basin, Zambia - Dr Subaru Tsuruoka (Funded via the SFI Research Professorship Award to Prof. Murray Hitzman)
Energy Transition Projects
- Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of complexly faulted basin margins in the Irish Carboniferous - Hannah Othen
- The impact of fault geometry on predictions of fault reactivation - Dr Janis Aleksans
- Optimising Seabed Mapping Products and Geotechnical Characterisation Techniques for Offshore Renewable Energy in Ireland (SCORE) - Dr Mark Coughlan
- Gas hydrates as a water-treatment agent - Dr Omid Saremi
- Unlocking the CO2 storage potential of the Cretaceous succession in the North Celtic Sea Basin (offshore Ireland) - Dr Pablo Rodriguez-Salgado
- CO2 Hydrate Sealing potential for Carbon Capture and Storage (HydSeal) - Dr Srikumar Roy
- Palaeogeographic reconstruction of the North Atlantic – an integrated approach - Robert Murphy
Building Materials Projects
- The Role of the Microscopic Properties of Aggregates in Controlling Asphalt Mixture Durability and Sustainability in the Irish Road Network - Dr Richard Unitt
Earth System Change
Environmental Geoscience Projects
- Characteristics of slow-moving submarine landslides - Benjamin Couvin
- The link between stress, fluid flow, and subduction dynamics: Implications for offshore geohazards and resource development - Effat Behboudi
- The impact of organic matter on heavy metal bioavailability in urban soils: experimental and field-based approaches - Hannah Binner (Co-funded by GSI)
- The effect of climatic warming on the frequency of volcanic eruptions in Iceland - Lucy Blennerhassett
- Spatiotemporal multiscale Modelling of Antimicrobial Resistance in The Irish subsurface Environment (SMARTIE) - Luisa Andrade (Co-funded by GSI)
- Assessing the response of the AMOC during times of abrupt climate change - Megan Murphy O'Connor (Co-funded by GSI)
- TARGETing crystallisation for enhanced Carbon Capture and Storage (TARGET-CCS) - Niamh Faulkner
Climate and Environment Projects
- Temporal Assessment of Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment (TARE) - Julie O'Donovan
- The Role of Upper Ocean Turbulence on the Biological Carbon Pump - Kevin McGraw
- The lasting legacy of extreme global warming: Fossil floras and climates of the Smithian-Spathian extinction event - Marcos André Amores de Oliveira
- Crushed Returned Concrete (CRC) as a Soil Amendment for Carbon Capture - Ruadhán MaGee
- Implications for water resources and flooding - Dr Sate Ahmad
Connected Waters Projects
- Understanding the fate of potentially toxic elements in the hyporheic zone - Niamh O'Sullivan
Geomarine Environment Projects
- Assessing the impacts of multiple stressors on cold-water corals and developing novel geochemical proxies for environmental change - Erica Krueger
- MACMOMO (Mid-20th Century Atlantic Circulation informed by Modern Observations and Models) - Guillaume Hug
- Learning from the past to help inform the future ecological health of shallow marine ecosystems in the Anthropocene - Rachel Healy
Earth Science in Society
Geohazards & Geoengineering Projects
- Development of a fibre-optic approach for offshore site investigation - Andrew Trafford (Co-funded by GSI)
- Distributed fibre optic sensing and deep learning-based photogrammetric analysis of ageing underground infrastructure (CERN) - Aohui Ouyang
- Wireless Sensor Network Monitoring and Modelling of Dublin Tunnel - Chao Wang
- Peat slope stability and the effectiveness of mitigation measures on peatland sites in Ireland - Eileen McCarthy
- A cosmogenic-nuclide approach to quantifying the drivers of rocky coastline erosion under changing climate and sea-level conditions - Gregor Rink
Responsible Decision Making Projects
- Taking Stock: the public perception, understanding and acceptance of marine sediments storing carbon - Tomas Buitendijk
Platform Technologies
Geosensing Projects
- Enhancing Ireland’s InSAR Processing Capacity with Application to Assessment of Peatland Restoration - Dr Alexis Hrysiewicz
Geodata Projects
- An improved characterisation of subsurface using geophysical inversion incorporated with subsurface structure and physical properties of rocks to support mineral exploration - Prithwijit Chakraborti
Geomodelling Projects
- Compression-based modelling of the Ross Formation - Dr Deirdre Walsh
- The effect of surcharging on secondary settlement in peat - Farimah Fattahi Masrour
Geochemistry Projects
- North Atlantic basement terrane correlation based on K-feldspar Pb isotope mapping with applications in sedimentary provenance and mineralization - Dr Eszter Badenszki
- Refining multi-isotope, micro-analytical imaging methodologies (LA-ICP-MS silicate and geochronology) - Dr Foteini Drakou
- Refining multi-element analysis and mapping methodologies for sulphides and silicates - Dr Maurice Brodbeck
- Developing quantitative SEM analysis and imaging for minerals and glasses - Dr Paul Guyett
Geophysics Projects
- Quantification of the low-frequency seismo-acoustic soundscape in the NE Atlantic offshore Ireland - Dr Clara Gomez-Garcia
Past Projects
Earth Resources
Energy Transition Projects
- Syn-rift basin-fill architecture – constraints from forward stratigraphic modelling - Eoin O'Donnell
- Fault system evolution during crustal hyperextension in the Porcupine Basin - Dr Gael Lymer
Earth Science in Society
Geohazards & Geoengineering Projects
- Automatic crack classification in large scale tunnel structure using deep learning - Darragh Gerard O'Brien (Co-funded by GSI)
- Monitoring water flow in karst using passive seismic ‘listening’ - Dr Haleh Karbala Ali (Co-funded by GSI)
- Multi-scale Investigation of Bio-Based Mineral Precipitation in Carbonate Bearing Granular Soils and Construction Related Waste - Dr Christine Spencer (Funded by the US-Ireland R&D Partnership Award)
- Characterisation of sand deposits for future MICP treatment - Maria Judge (Funded by the US-Ireland R&D Partnership Award)
- Multi-scale Investigation of Bio-Based Mineral Precipitation in Carbonate Bearing Granular Soils and Construction Related Waste - Dr Sumit Joshi
Supply of Raw Materials
Zinc-Lead Mining projects
- Structural evolution of Lower Carboniferous faulting and its links to fluid flow and mineralization - Dr Koen Torremans
- Tracing geochemical signatures associated with carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb mineralization in the Irish Midlands - Dr Thomas Riegler
- Geochemical vectoring for Irish-type Zn-Pb mineralisation along the Rathdowney Trend, Ireland - Oakley Turner
- Hydrothermal fluid flow in Irish Zn-Pb deposits: a Zn-Cu-S isotope and clumped isotope approach - Aileen Doran
- Seismic imaging with high-frequency waveform techniques - Clara Gomez-Garcia
Mineral Exploration projects
- Origin of SEDEX-Style Mineralisation in the UDL (Lucan Formation) Hanging Wall Rocks at Navan – a New Lithogeochemical Exploration Tool? - Dr Maria Dolores (Lola) Yesares
- Metallogenesis of Cu deposits in Upper Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks, southern Ireland - Juergen Lang
- Metallogenesis of Cu deposits in Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks, southern Ireland - Dr Sean Johnson
- Characterizing orogenic vein systems to promote gold exploration across Irish terranes - James Stratford
- Rare element enrichment processes in LCT pegmatites and implications for geochemical exploration - David Kaeter
Energy Critical Elements projects
- Precious and energy critical metal zonation at the Caribou Deposit - Foteini Drakou
- The distribution of precious and energy critical elements at the scale of a Zn and Cu mineral deposit - Maurice Brodbeck
- The chemostratigraphy and petrology of Mississippian volcanogenic clay bands (tuffs) in the Irish Midlands and their relation to potential volcanic centers - Hilde Koch
- Abundance of the full range of ECE in Cu and Zn ores - Dr Lingli Zhou
- Ireland - Geochemical, petrological, and geochronological analysis - Dr Hilde Koch (Funded via the SFI Research Professorship Award to Prof. Murray Hitzman)
- Deportment of cobalt showings on the Tyrone Igneous Complex of Northern Ireland - Matthew Mawson
- 3D geological modelling of the Black Angel Mine Area, Maarmorilik, Greenland - Dr Philip Rieger
Building Materials projects
- Surface Textural Controls on High PSV Aggregates - Dr Richard Unitt
- Fingerprinting and assessing the reactivity of past and future aggregates - Tadhg Dornan
- Aggregate Potential of Irish South Coast Offshore Palaeovalleys - Evan O'Mahony
- Exploration and optimization of a novel negative carbon emission technology using enhanced plant mediated chemical weathering - Charilaos Yiotis & Weimu Xu
Safeguarding the Geomarine Environment
Marine Acoustics projects
- Novel applications of broad band near sea floor pressure/acoustic monitoring for time lapse remote sensing of sea-bed processes - Dr Florian Lepape
- Evaluating controls of acoustic noise propagation across the continental margin - Eoghan Daly
Ireland's Seabed projects
- Quaternary Seismostratigraphies of Irish Shelf Seas (QuSISS) - Dr Zsuzsanna Toth
- Coral Carbonate Mounds as archives in Submarine Canyon Exchange - Dr Aaron Lim
- Developing Offshore Wind Energy Seabed Zonation Tools (WindEaZ) - Felix Butschek
Remote Sensing projects
- Application of CDOM optical properties for tracing natural and manmade surface slicks - Monica Mullins
- Influence of natural biogeochemical controls on primary productivity on the optical properties of surface seawater - Sarah Nicholas
- Contribution of Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) to the marine carbonate biogeochemistry of western Irish coastal seas - Mariateresa Guerra
Secure and Protect Groundwater Resources
Groundwater Quantity projects
- Characterisation of diffuse recharge into karst aquifers using chemical and numerical modelling techniques - Philip Schuler
- Impacts of changing climate on groundwater recharge in low storativity fractured-rock aquifers - Elia Cantoni
- Visualisation of flow and contaminant transport through karst aquifers - Dr Lea Duran
- Ecosystem services provided by turloughs - Fabio Delle Grazie
- Quantitative investigation of potential geothermal systems in Ireland - Dr Sarah Blake
- Quantitative analysis of faults and fracture systems and their impact on groundwater flow in the bedrocks of Ireland - Dr John Paul Moore
Groundwater Quality
- An investigation of arsenic sources, speciation and mobilization processes in selected Irish aquifers - Alex Russell
- Emerging organic contaminants arising in rural environments: investigations in karst and fractured bedrock - Damien Mooney
- An investigation of uranium occurrence, sources and mobilization processes in selected Irish groundwaters - Fani Papageorgiou
- Effects of Groundwater-Surface water Interactions (GSI) on the biogeochemistry of coastal areas hosting aquaculture activities - Maxime Savatier
- The impact of on-site wastewater effluent on karst springs - Luka Vucinic
- An investigation of metal occurrence, sources and mobilization processes in selected Irish groundwaters associated with mines - Sean Wheeler
- Linked laboratory and field investigations of engineered nanomaterial (ENM) behavior in selected soils and groundwaters - Dr Viviana Bolanos
Energy Security
Sediment Tracking projects
- Development of novel sediment tracers: investigating the primary controls on reservoir sandstone quality - Jess Franklin
- Tracing sand provenance – lessons from extant systems and resilience of provenance signals in the subsurface - Dr Sebastian Zimmerman
- Sand delivery to passive margin basins – towards quantitative source to sink analysis - Martin Nauton-Fourteu
- Development of novel sediment tracers: validation and application of conventional and new provenance proxies - Dr Aoife Blowick
- Reconciling exhumation models and sediment volumes in passive margin basins - Dr Chris Mark
- A provenance study to characterise the contribution of axial drainage systems to the deposition of lower Mesozoic sandstone reservoirs in the North Celtic Sea and St. Georges Channel Basins, offshore south east Ireland - Odhrán McCarthy
- North Atlantic palaeogeographic reconstruction: an integrated approach - Robert Murphy
Basin Evolution projects
- Crustal and sedimentary architecture of hyperextended basins - Dr Damien Gagnevin
- The kinematics of fault systems in offshore Ireland – implications for fault related trapping and leakage - Dr Muhammad Mudasar Saqab
- Controls on clay distribution at bed-level in deep-water sandstones; implications for permeability and hydrocarbon drainage - Arif Hussain
- Determining the Mesozoic–Cenozoic thermal history of the Irish offshore basins and the Irish mainland - Dr Claire Ansberque
- Prediction of deep-water stratigraphic traps developed across the syn-rift to post-rift transition in Atlantic-margin basins - Lewis Whiting
- Structural and kinematic analysis of the Celtic Sea basins - exploring links between evolution and traps - Dr Pablo Rodriguez Salgado
- Conjugate margin architecture of hyperextended basins - Dr Sara Martínez
- Enhancing crustal and sedimentary structure of North Atlantic rift basins in hyperextended passive margins - Dr Manel Prada
- Quantifying Cenozoic exhumation on the Irish mainland and offshore using low-temperature thermochronology and seismic studies - Rémi Rateau
- Anatomy of early continental rifting: An integrated pedofacies, spectral gamma and palaeomagnetic approach - Almahdi Alshawib
- Structural and kinematic analysis of the Slyne and Erris basins - exploring links between structural evolution and traps - Conor O'Sullivan
- Reservoir significance of thin-bedded successions in deep-water settings - Dr Emma Morris
- An integrated study of the Hatton Basin: its role in regional North Atlantic petroleum systems - Laura Berdi
- Comparative stratigraphic and structural evolution of perched Mesozoic rift basins along the eastern margin of the Rockall Trough - Dr Stratos Delogkos
- The kinematics of fault systems in offshore Ireland – implications for fault related trapping and leakage - Dr Gael Lymer
- Discrete element numerical modelling of the evolution of fault systems - Dr Janis Aleksans
- Evaluation of upslope pinchouts in modern and ancient turbidite system: implications for stratigraphic trapping - Dr John Counts
- Controls of fault-related deformation in the Porcupine Basin, Ireland – implications for fault-related trapping - Dr Vincent Roche
- Temporal and spatial variability in Lower Jurassic hydrocarbon source-rock quality in Irish off-shore marine basin - Dr Ricardo de Silva
- Up-dip stratigraphic pinch-out of lacustrine turbidite systems in the North Falkland Basin - Arron Fox
Reservoir Modelling projects
- Hierarchical compression-based reservoir modelling conditioned to seismic and well data - Deirdre Walsh
- Hierarchical sedimentary characterisation and modelling of submarine channels - Kishan Soni
- Hierarchical Compression modelling for Petrel - Dr Marcus Vinicius Carneiro Martins
- A rock physics perspective on the factors controlling poor sub-basalt imagery on continental margins - Dr Gaurav Tomar
- Measuring and modelling stacking patterns in turbidite sequences - Javier López Cabrera
- Diffraction imaging: towards clearer images of hydrocarbon reservoirs - Brydon Lowney
- Cancellation of surface waves from the active seismic records by seismic interferometry - Varun Kumar Singla
- Investigation of the CO2 storage potential of the Central North Celtic Sea Basin - Dr Pablo Rodriguez Salgado
Unconventional Hydrocarbons project
- Commercialization of natural gas hydrates: geological attributes, environmental factors, and new exploration and production technology - Dr Srikumar Roy
Global Subsurface Training Centre project
- Development of Clare Subsurface Training Centre and securing the long-term future of Clare-based applied geoscience - Dr Anthea Lacchia
Protection from Earth's Hazards
Karst and Tunneling projects
- Geological investigation of buried limestone valleys between Lough Corrib and Galway City - Megan Dolan
- Developing a toolkit for imaging shallow karst - Alex Braun
Coastal and Material Stability projects
- Monitoring of Irish geohazards and peatland motions through InSAR - Alexis Hrysiewicz
Environmental Geosciences
- The organic contribution to challenges in characterising the carbonate system in coastal waters - Daniel Kerr
Public Perception and Understanding
- Public perception and Understanding of Geoscience and Related Activities - Dr Teresa Hooks and Dr Andrew Moynihan
- The Role of Geosciences in Radon Risk Communication (GeoRadRisk) - Dr Gary Bradley
- Trust and perception: key challenges facing geoscientists in practice and in Irish society - Dr Jess Franklin
- GeoPlan: public perception and understanding of coastal geohazards - Dr Daniel Tubridy
- Tephra Ash citizen science exploration - Dr Kamila Kwasniewska & Dr Anthea Lacchia
Enabling Methodologies
3D Ireland
- The Geology of the Shale Gas Basins onshore Ireland - Dr Jiulin Cole Guo
- 3D Modelling of the Irish Carboniferous Basins and Associated Zn-Pb Deposits - Dr Roisin Kyne
- 3D Model Platform - Dr John Conneally
Geochemistry
- Implementation of Re-Os geochronology isotope techniques and application to commercially relevant materials, such as hydrocarbon-bearing black shales and sulphide ore bodies - Dr David van Acken
- NCIG Platform development - Dr Eszter Badenszki
Geophysics
- Mapping of noise sources areas and trialling of noise correlation methods in the marine environment, offshore Ireland - Dr David Craig
- Pilot application of passive seismic imagery at Boliden-Tara mine - Giuseppe Maggio
- Seismic imaging with massive datasets using sparsifying transformation methods - Dr Francois Lavoue
- Waveform tomography with massive datasets: The East Asia case study - Dr Hui Dou
- Multidisciplinary shallow crustal imagery at Boliden-Tara mine - Senad Subasic
