Overview
Human activity and anthropogenic carbon release increasingly cause climatic and environmental change on local, regional and global scales. Quantification of these changes and their controlling processes is critical for better probabilistic forecasting to enable mitigation of their worst effects. Observatory Ireland - Earth System Change brings together multi-disciplinary, and multi-institution, research teams to conduct and combine local (in situ) to regional (satellite-based) monitoring of contemporary catchments and marine environments, as well as the study of sedimentary archives that recorded the past physical state of, and changes in, Earth’s climates and environment. Observatory Ireland - Earth System Change aims to improve our understanding of Earth system processes, allowing for improved predictions on how Irish environments, ecosystems and landscapes will respond to anthropogenic climate change, and how this can best be mitigated in a sustainable way.
