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Environmental Research InstituteANNUAL REPORT 2018

CircularEconomy

HealthyEnvironment Climate

Action

The Environmental Research Institute is committed to the following five core principles:

Research excellence

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Research with impact – Environmental, Societal & Economic

High quality postgraduate and postdoctoral education and training

Diversity and Equality

VISION

To enable a transition to a zero carbon, resource efficient and sustainable society.

MISSION

To generate new research knowledge for the understanding and protection of our natural environment, and develop technologies, tools, services and policy knowledge to facilitate a transformation to a zero carbon, resource efficient, and sustainable society.

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Contents

Message from ERI Director 2

Section 1: ERI 2018 at a glance 3

Section 2: ERI Research Highlights 2018 4

2.1 Climate Action

2.2 Healthy Environment

2.3 Circular Economy

Section 3: ERI Research Centres’ Reports 15

3.1 MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and the Marine (MaREI)

3.2 Centre for Research on Atmospheric Chemistry (CRAC)

3.3 Cleaner Production Promotion Unit (CPPU)

3.4 Aquaculture and Fisheries Development Centre (AFDC)

3.5 UN Environment GEMS/Water Capacity Development Centre

3.6 Centre for Law and the Environment

Section 4: ERI in the Media 29

Section 5: Outreach & Public Engagement 30

Section 6: Awards 34

Section 7: ERI 2018 PhD and Research Masters Awards 38

Section 8: ERI 2018 Peer-Reviewed Publications 39

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Environmental Research Institute

A recent comprehensive review of the environment by the European Environment Agency concluded that achieving long-term global sus-tainability objectives, such as articulated by the UN Sustainable De-velopment Goals, will require a fundamental transformation of core societal systems. For advanced economies in Europe and elsewhere, reconciling high levels of human development with environmental sus-tainability, and living within the limits of our planet, will require a ten-fold factor improvement in environmental performance. This necessi-tates major leaps forward in new knowledge, tools and technologies on how we produce food, energy and materials in parallel with changes in how we live and consume as a society. The outstanding research carried by the staff and research centres within the Environmental Research Institute highlighted in the 2018 ERI Annual Report demonstrates that we are bringing the depth of knowledge and expertise within the ERI and UCC to address these urgent challenges, and lead to action on lo-cal, national and global sustainability concerns.

At an international level, climate policy research conducted by Prof Brian Ó Gallachóir’s research team has informed the 2018 Intergov-ernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C. Prof Marcel Jansen was part of a United Nations Environment Programme’s panel of international scientists who pre-sented a report on the latest scientific understanding on the impacts of ozone layer depletion to governments signed up to the Montreal Pro-tocol - including Ireland. The UN GEMS/Water Centre were selected as implementing partners of the Sustainable Development Goal 6.3.2 which measures ambient water quality and are involved in core activ-ities crucial to the achievement of this goal. Dr Dug Cubie’s research work is advancing knowledge in the emerging field of international di-saster laws to examine the reasons behind the movement of people in response to climate change. Prof Andy Wheeler’s research team made the groundbreaking discovery of a vast new submarine canyon 370km off the coast of Dingle.

Closer to home, the ObSERVE Aerial project led by Professor Emer Rogan and Dr Mark Jessopp has provided key knowledge and data on protected species and sensitive habitats offshore of Ireland and includ-ing sightings of species not normally found in Irish waters. ERI climate policy research was presented to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action which led to the development of Ireland’s first Climate Action Plan. The MaREI Climate Ireland team delivered Adaptation Planning Training Workshops throughout Ireland for the recently es-tablished Climate Action Regional Offices, whilst at community level, the transdisciplinary Imagining 2050 project led by Dr Ger Mullally is engaging with Irish civic society using innovative approaches to co-de-velop future pathways to a low carbon and climate resilient future.

The shift to sustainable agri-food and material productions systems to make Ireland’s industry more resource efficient received a significant boost in 2018 with research investments in ERI projects that are con-verting wastewaters into feed for animals, using urban mining to recover value from electronic waste, and developing non-critical raw materials for a range of rechargeable battery systems. ERI PIs are also investigat-ing how food supply and consumption are contributing to sustainability uncovering how households use new food supply platforms.

What can’t be measured can’t be managed; the development of more accurate and rapid methods of monitoring of environmental quality is crucial to environmental protection. The launch of a new air monitor-ing station by the Centre for Research on Atmospheric Chemistry in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency and Met Eire-ann at the UCC North Mall Campus will provide air quality data to feed into international atmospheric observation networks demonstrat-ing UCC’s commitment to providing communities with localised data on the quality of their environment. The development of the GRAppLE (Groundwater Risk Application for Local Evaluations) mobile phone application, led by Dr Jean O’Dwyer, which can be used by private well owners to estimate their risk of consuming E. coli contaminated water is another excellent example of enabling individuals and communities to rapidly monitor the quality of the environment around them.

The Institute and its constituent centres were awarded 57 new research projects in 2018 to a value of €12.6M bringing to current total of €59.8 M in active research grants and 206 active research projects. The In-stitute also substantially grew its publication output in 2018 increasing the number of peer reviewed publications from 267 in 2017 to 351 in 2018. The Institute also grew the number of postgraduates graduated from 39 in 2017 to 48 in 2018.

We are delighted that the new Centre for Law and the Environment, established and directed by Dr Áine Ryall and Prof Owen McIntyre, was launched on 26th April 2018. The Centre consolidates UCC as one of the leading universities in Ireland in environmental law bringing to-gether significant legal expertise within the School of Law to identify, develop and promote innovative legal and policy responses to environ-mental, climate, water and marine issues Ireland.

Research carried out by the Institute was strongly represented across many media platforms and festivals in 2018. Particularly notable has been the prominence of Institute research on RTÉ Brainstorm which has proven to be an extremely effective platform for our researchers to share their insights with the public; in the first 6 months of Brain-storm, two pieces from ERI researcher Dr Eamonn Mullholland made the Top 40 Most Read articles. We were very pleased to see the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Engineering and Computer Science Speaker of the Year awarded to Dr Paul Deane for his exceptional communication and public outreach skills. We sincerely thank all our Institute PIs, re-searchers and centres for taking time out on their evenings and week-ends to engage in many and varied outreach and science communica-tion events within their towns and communities

We welcomed a number of new Principal Investigators to the ERI in 2018 including Professor Gregorio Iglesias (School of Engineering, Ma-REI), Dr Christie Godsmark (School of Public Health), Dr Jean O’Dw-yer (School of BEES), Dr John Weatherhill (School of BEES), Dr Tom Doyle (School of BEES), Dr Marcus Eichhorn (School of BEES), and Dr Timothy Sullivan (School of BEES). We look forward to working with them in the coming years to establish internationally leading research teams in the environmental and sustainability area in their schools and departments in the coming years.

Finally, many congratulations to UCC’s Green Campus who were re-sponsible for UCC becoming the first university outside of the USA to be awarded a gold star rating from the Association for the Advance-ment of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) for excellence in sustainability in 2018. The award is international recognition for the University’s leadership in establishing a sustainable campus and we are delighted to work closely with the UCC Green Campus team to make great strides forward in both sustainability research and practice.

Message from ERI Director

Professor Sarah CullotyDirector, Environmental Research Institute.

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SECTION 1 – ERI 2018 at a glance

Industry

Exchequer

EU

31%

63%

6%

ERI new Research Funding awarded in 2018 by Source

405RESEARCHERS

206LIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS

351PUBLICATIONS

€12.6mIN NEWRESEARCHFUNDING IN 2018

57NEW PROJECTS IN 2018

48POSTGRADUATESGRADUATED IN 2018

€59.8mIN ACTIVE GRANTS IN 2018

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ERI energy research cited in IPCC report

The 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C was prepared by 91 authors and editors from 40 countries in response to commitment under the Paris Agreement in 2015 to limit global warming to 1.5°C. The report highlights a range of climate change impacts that could be avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5°C, compared to 2°C or more, and was informed by research conducted by ERI researchers in the MaREI Energy Policy & Modelling Group, led by Professor Brian Ó Gallachóir. Citing research published in Limiting Global Warming to Well Below 2°C: Energy System Modelling and Policy Development, the report depicts the implications of a rise in global temperature of more than 1.5°C and provides information on what it would take to prevent this occurring.

Imagining our world in 2050

On 14th April, the former Minister for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment, Denis Naughton hosted the inaugural regional meeting of Ireland’s Nation-al Climate Dialogue process in Galway. Dr Margaret Des-mond, Dr Paul Deane, Clare Watson and Dr Alexandra Revez were invited event speakers on the topics of climate change impacts and adaptation. The ERI continues to work closely with key stakeholders in the National Climate Di-alogue process through the EPA-funded Imagining 2050 project, which was launched in 2018. The project seeks to bring together research knowledge in Ireland on societal transitions, climate mitigation and climate adaptation, and is engaging with civic society using innovative approaches to co-develop future pathways to a low carbon and climate resilient future. In 2018, Imagining 2050 also joined JPI Cli-mate Action Group ‘Enabling Societal Transformations in the Face of Climate Change’. JPI Climate aims to respond

to the knowledge needs of policy and the European society to address climate change; collaboration with JPI enables Irish researchers to be at the forefront of developments in climate services, climate knowledge and support systems at European level.

SECTION 2 – ERI Research Highlights 2018

Climate Action: Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity. The transition to

a zero carbon and climate resilient society as committed to in the 2015 Paris Agreement is now

underway. The ERI Climate Action challenge is focused on understanding, responding, adapting

and living with climate change.

2.1 Climate Action

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Climate Ireland supports development of Ireland’s Climate Adaptation Strategy

In December 2018, the Minister of State for Community Development, Natural Re-sources and Digital Development, Sean Canney T.D., published the Local Authority Adaptation Strategy Development Guidelines which were developed by the Climate Ireland Team at MaREI to support Ireland’s Local Authorities in the development of their adaptation strategies. The team also developed the Sectoral Planning Guidelines for Climate Change Adaptation, which were launched by Denis Naughton in May 2018. In collaboration with the Climate Action Regional Offices, Climate Ireland ran a series of adaptation training seminars and workshops in June and September of 2018 which were specifically designed to support Local Authorities in developing their ad-aptation strategies. The Climate Ireland Team were also invited to Tokyo by the Jap-anese National Institution of Environmental Studies (NIES) to demonstrate Climate Ireland, to share experiences of adaptation planning in Ireland and to provide expert contributions to the development of the Japanese Climate Adaptation Platform.

Ozone depletion and climate change – is there a link?

A report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released in 2018 has shown strong interactions between climate change and stratospheric ozone levels. In some regions, ozone depletion is itself contributing to climate change by driving changes in tempera-ture, precipitation and UV radiation. The only Irish scientist on the report, Professor Marcel Jansen (School of BEES, ERI), assessed the effects of ozone depletion and the associated changes in the amount of harmful UV radiation (UV-B) on our ecosystems. The report concluded that the combination of ozone depletion, UV-B radiation and climate change all interact to impact negatively on terrestrial organisms and ecosystems, including agricultural systems. Professor Jansen is a member of the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel, an international group of scientists, who assess the impacts of ozone layer depletion and changes in UV-radiation as part of the Montreal Protocol. The report, which has now been presented to all governments signed up to the Montreal Protocol, including Ireland, captures the latest scientific understanding on the impacts of ozone layer depletion, and places strong emphasis on the novel challenge of in-teractive effects of ozone depletion and climate change on human health and the environment.

Fleeing climate change

In February 2018, the UCC Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR) hosted a seminar in Dublin examining Climate Change, Displacement and the Law as part of an 18-month Irish Research Council (IRC) funded project entitled ‘Advancing Interna-tional Networks for Understanding, Researching and Implementing International Disaster Law’. This IRC New Foundations project was a joint collaboration between Dr Dug Cubie (School of Law, Centre for Law and the Environment, ERI) and the Irish Red Cross Society, with the objective of advancing knowledge and practical application of the emerging field of international disaster laws for academics and practitioners in Ireland, and strengthening international networks of academics and practitioners working on international disaster law. The event examined the reasons behind the movement of people in response to disasters and climate change, and the related impli-cations for humanitarian organisations. Participants explored the existing legal and policy frameworks which aim to support persons who are forcibly displaced due to disasters and climate change.

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In December 2018, Prof Brian Ó Gallachóir (ERI Deputy Di-rector and MaREI Director) presented to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action research findings on climate

action relating to the medium and long term, and commu-nity energy. The Committee was established to consider the Citizens’ Assembly recommendations on ‘How the state can make Ireland a leader in tackling climate change’. A total of 17 recommendations are detailed in the report and each of the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly are consid-ered by the Joint Committee as a first step. Accompanied by Dr James Glynn, Dr Fionn Rogan and Clare Watson of the Energy Policy and Modelling Group, Professor Ó Gallachóir outlined the key policy insights stemming from research con-ducted by the group. The EPMG is the only national research team to have developed scenarios to explore long-term pos-sible energy futures for Ireland. In addition, Dr James Glynn, Dr Paul Bolger and Professor Sarah Culloty met separately with Oireachtas committee member Senator Tim Lombard in 2018 during his visit to the ERI where Dr Glynn discussed the most recent publication from the EPMG regarding zero carbon energy systems pathways analysis for Paris.

Climate change critical transitions workshop

A workshop on the Critical Transitions in Complex Systems (MSCA-ITN CRITICS) project was held in UCC in August 2018. Hosted by Professor Se-bastian Wieczorek (Department of Applied Mathematics, ERI), the workshop was attended by experts from across the EU focused on Critical transitions or tipping points for climate change. The main goal of the meeting was the characterisation and prediction of the occurrence of sudden and unexpected changes in the state of complex systems that are triggered by small and slow changes in changing external trends or inputs. The topics covered ranged from mathematical theory of critical transitions to examples of critical transitions from the natural world, technology and society.

Professor Gregorio Iglesias, MaREI and ERI

Gregorio Iglesias joined MaREI as Professor of Marine Renewable Energy in 2018 from his previous position as Professor of Coastal Engineering and Head of the COAST Engineering Research Group at the University of Plymouth (UK). Gregorio’s research interests include: ocean energy (resource assessment, impact assessment, develop-ment of wave energy converters, combined wave and wind systems), coastal structures (breakwaters) and processes (estuarine hydraulics, beach morphodynamics).

New Appointments

Dr Christie Godsmark, School of Public Health and ERI

Christie Godsmark is a lecturer in Occupational Health at the UCC School of Public Health and the ERI. She joined UCC in 2018 after working in the Division of Envi-ronmental Health at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Although Christie’s background is in physiology, her current lecturing and research focus areas include the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on human health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on vulnerable populations.

How to make Ireland a leader in climate action

Pictured above (L-R): Dr Fionn Rogan, Hildegarde Naughton TD (Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action), Professor Brian Ó Gallachóir, Clare Watson and Dr James Glynn (all from the MaREI Energy Policy and Modelling Group).

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Environment, human health and a changing climate

In recent years, the nexus between environmental and human health has come into sharp focus pre-senting key questions transcending numerous disciplines on how does the natural environment me-diate public health outcomes? Dr. Jean O’Dwyer (School of BEES, ERI) sets out to answer some of these questions. Jean’s group recognises that applied science is central to protecting the environment and protecting people, and strives to bring science as a tool to the hands of citizens. The development of the GRAppLE (Groundwater Risk Application for Local Evaluations) app, funded by Geological Survey Ireland and led by Jean, is a mobile phone application that takes complicated science and repurposes it through an interface that is both usable and useful. Specifically, GRAppLE can be used by private well owners to estimate their risk of consuming E. coli contaminated water. Using GPS coordinates, the application fetches hydrogeological (aquifer vulnerability, soil permeability etc.), cli-matological (antecedent rainfall and temperature) and site-specific risk factors (e.g. cattle density) from externally hosted data-servers, combines these with user-inputted risk factors to create a final risk score (% and category). Based on the aggregated risk, the users are provided with advice for pro-tection, maintenance and remediation of their supply, if necessary.

2.2 Healthy Environment

Healthy Environment: Our economic prosperity and well-being is underpinned by the quality

of our environment and natural capital. The ERI Healthy Environment challenge is focused on

protecting our natural ecosystems and providing a healthy environment for humans to live in.

School of BEES scientists reveal 3km submarine canyon on edge of Ireland’s continental shelf

Covering approximately 70% of our planet’s surface, oceans form the vital function of removing CO2 from the atmosphere by absorbing it at the surface and fun-nelling it via underwater canyons to where it can be naturally sequestered. In 2018, School of BEES, ERI and iCRAG researchers lead by Prof Andy Wheeler and Dr Aaron Lim discovered a vast new submarine canyon 370km off the coast of Dingle. Uncovered us-ing the Marine Institute’s Holland 1 Remotely Operated Vehicle, the Porcupine Canyon channels carbon-storing cold-water corals into the deep ocean. The Porcupine Bank Canyon (PBC), in Irish waters 370 km SW of Miz-zen Head, is disconnected from the influence of mate-rial eroded from the land, as it is isolated from rivers. Unlike all other European submarine canyons, the PBC and its smaller neighbours, represent a natural labora-tory for studying oceanographic changes unimpaired by changes in terrestrial (human-dominated) environ-ment. So far, significant deep-sea exploration and sur-veying has established baseline data revealing a major carbonate-dominated upper canyon system hosting ex-tensive heterogeneous cold-water habitat cover.

Launch the app

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Safe drinking water is one of the most essential requirements for a healthy population of people. Groundwater is the princi-pal source of potable drinking water for a significant percent-age of the world’s population as groundwater is considered safer to drink in comparison to surface water. Despite this there are numerous potential sources of contamination in our groundwater that require further examination. ICRAG-fund-ed research carried out by Dr John Weatherill (School of BEES, ERI) aims to explore the transport and fate of potential-ly toxic elements, such as arsenic, at the groundwater-surface water interface (hyporheic zone) for the first time in Ireland. This research will investigate the interaction between carbon and nitrogen cycling associated with intensive agricultural land use and bedrock mineral sources of geogenic elements. The project will also develop a conceptual understanding of groundwater-surface water interactions in thin and highly vulnerable aquifers. Another potentially harmful contaminant being investigated are trihalomethanes (THMs) which may be formed as a by-product of adding chlorine to water con-taining high levels of organic material (e.g. vegetation), and are classified by the HSE as possibly carcinogenic to humans. EPA-funded research planned by Dr Weatherill will explore

the potential of UV-Vis fluorescence sensor technology to characterise dissolved organic matter (DOM) precursors of THMs and employ a ‘front end’ approach to assess risks to drinking water supplies using high-frequency in-situ moni-toring of DOM based in the River Lee catchment in Co. Cork.

Ireland’s Atlantic Margin - a crucial habitat for many whale, bird and dolphin species

The ObSERVE Aerial project, funded by the Department of Communications, Climate Action & Environment, in part-nership with the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, is an international programme led by MaREI, ERI and the School of BEES, UCC. The three-year programme, led in UCC by Professor Emer Rogan (School of BEES & ERI) & Dr Mark Jessopp (MaREI, ERI) has undertaken extensive aerial sur-veys in the Irish Sea, Celtic Sea and Atlantic Ocean, includ-ing the deep waters of the continental shelf edge, with the aim of enhancing our knowledge and understanding of pro-tected species and sensitive habitats offshore of Ireland. The data gathered was used to generate abundance estimates of key cetacean species as well as to identify important areas for marine mammals and seabirds at sea. 2018 was the year that the ObSERVE programme’s aerial survey reports were released, revealing some surprising insights, including sight-ings of species not normally found in Irish waters such as the White-tailed Tropicbirds and the Beluga Whale (which is mainly an Arctic species). The information generated under the programme will provide robust environmental baseline data to the regulatory regime in assessing offshore activities including oil & gas exploration, cables and offshore wind, and to conservation authorities responsible for the protec-tion of marine biodiversity.

Exposing the hidden toxins in our drinking water

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Bioaerosols (biologically-relevant airborne particles such as fungal spores, bacteria, viruses, pollen and plant fragments) are significant contributors to healthcare associated infec-tions which result in considerable morbidity and mortality to patients in the hospital and clinical setting. A collabo-ration between the Centre for Research into Atmospheric Chemistry (CRAC) and the College of Medicine and Health (COMH) is using cutting edge Waveband Integrated Bio-aerosol Sensor (WIBS) technology to analyse indoor bioaero-sols in a Cork University Hospital respiratory ward. Under supervision from PIs Professor John Sodeau (CRAC) and Professor Mike Prentice (COMH), CRAC PhD student Me-hael Fennelly conducted a study to observe the effectiveness of a plasma air disinfection unit using conventional and re-al-time air sampling techniques. The study found that WIBS can objectively characterise airborne particles in a controlled hospital environment, detecting sources of major plumes of

biologically-relevant airborne particles, and assessing the ef-fect of the air treatments applied to individual environments on airborne particles. This demonstrates the technology’s advantages over conventional air quality sampling methods currently used in hospitals.

UCC Green Campus Sustainability Summer School

The ERI were delighted to participate in the 2018 Sustainability Summer School, an initiative of UCC’s Green Campus in collaboration with Ludgate Hub, University of Massachusetts Lowell and UNAL Colombia. The school took an interdisciplinary approach to exploring themes of sustainability at local, national, and international levels and focused on how soci-ety can “make sustainability work” through incorporating people, planet, peace, prosperity, and partnership. The weeklong programme of events included a UCC Climate Lab Seminar from An Taisce, an evening showcase of the community-based, sustainability-themed re-search projects in UCC and a site visit to the ERI Lee Road Building. Several ERI Centres and projects were exhibited at the Sustainability Showcase which focused on collaborations between UCC and the local community in the area of sustainability.

Ireland holds internationally important breeding populations of several seabird species but their ecology and status remains poorly understood. Seabird research at the ERI, MaREI and School of BEES is conducted under the direction of Dr Mark Jessopp and Prof John Quinn, with PhD researchers Emma Critchley, Gavin Arneill and Ashley Bennison, and in 2018 research findings from the group contributed much-needed knowledge regarding the lives of crucial species. These in-cluded the Manx shearwater, the storm petrel and the Atlan-tic puffin, whose population sizes and trends are very poorly known. All nest in burrows and are extremely difficult to de-tect when breeding. Research conducted by UCC culminat-ed in the production of a censusing techniques manual for the National Parks and Wildlife Service, which will be used to drive Ireland’s monitoring strategies in line with EU com-mitments. In addition, the ObSERVE project oversaw the completion of the largest aerial survey of seabirds-at-sea ever

undertaken around Ireland and generated robust estimates of seabird abundance and distribution at sea, essential for informing population management and conservation. The study particularly highlighted the importance of the Atlantic Margin for seabirds with almost half a million seabirds locat-ed within the study area during both summer and winter, and bird densities highest in coastal areas.

Interdisciplinary collaboration on public healthcare will benefit patients

Seabird research will inform the conservation of Ireland’s threatened species

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New Appointments

Dr Jean O’Dwyer, School of BEES and ERI

Jean O’Dwyer joined the UCC School of BEES and ERI as a PI and lecturer in Envi-ronmental Science from the University of Limerick in 2018. Jean’s research focuses on the area of environment and health with a particular focus on persistent and emerging contaminants of water. In UCC, Jean will carry out research into envi-ronmental epidemiology and geo-statistical analysis of infectious diseases, with a particular interest in the impact of climate change on the proliferation of waterborne diseases; elucidation of environmental factors affecting the selection and drivers of antibiotic resistant bacteria, and the distribution of pharmaceutical residues in the environment and the fate of persistent and emerging contaminants of water.

Dr Tom Doyle, School of BEES and ERI

Tom Doyle is a researcher and lecturer in the School of BEES, and a new PI in MaREI and the ERI. A marine biologist with expertise in jellyfish ecology, forag-ing ecology of leatherback sea turtles and animal biotelemetry (satellite tracking), Tom’s research focuses on the distribution and abundance of key gelatinous groups, development of sampling techniques for monitoring gelatinous zooplankton, and the socio-economic impacts of jellyfish (especially aquaculture interactions). He has deployed satellite tags, data loggers and acoustic tracking devices on various species (jellyfish, sunfish, blue sharks and leatherback turtles) to determine animal move-ments and dive behaviour.

Dr John Weatherill, School of BEES and ERI

Prior to joining the School of BEES and the ERI as a principal investigator and lec-turer in Hydrogeology, John Weatherill was an industry practitioner focused on contaminated land site investigation, detailed quantitative risk assessment and re-mediation of legacy groundwater pollutants in hydrogeologically complex settings. He was the technical lead on projects addressing dense non-aqueous phase liquids, light non-aqueous phase liquids, MTBE, chromium and ammonium contamination throughout Ireland and the UK. John also has a background as a water quality sci-entist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in the UK. John’s research interests are focussed on the transport and fate of natural and anthropogenic pollutants in aquatic environments. His research aims to understand the coupling of hydrological processes and pollutants reactions at different spatiotemporal scales in catchments and groundwater bodies.

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2.3 Circular Economy

Circular Economy: A shift from a “take-make-consume” to a closed-loop economy where

resources are kept in use for as long as possible is now an imperative for society and economy.

The ERI Circular Economy challenge is focused on producing food and goods in a closed-loop

approach with minimal or no waste.

Materials science research to combat increasing global waste

Established in 2017 by Professor Justin Holmes and Dr Eoin Flynn (both School of Chemistry and the ERI), the Sustainable Materi-als working group within the ERI aims to use advanced materials science to facilitate greater environmental and economic sustain-ability, through development of novel materials and materials applications. The working group has substantial expertise from a range of disciplines across the University in the areas of mate-rial science, sustainable bio-materials, biotechnology, geological resources, material engineering, urban mining, material reuse, and life cycle analysis. Currently the group channels this exper-tise towards four principal research areas, namely Materials for Environmental Remediation - the development and application of materials for municipal, industrial and agricultural waste reme-diation; Materials for a Zero Carbon Economy - materials which by their application reduce the carbon footprint of industry; Re-source Efficient Materials - development of materials from wastes and application of materials to reduce waste and increase process efficiencies; and Renewable Materials - materials produced from renewable sources.

The search for nature-based solutions to address environ-mental challenges is leading scientists to turn to plants and algae to clean up our polluted waters and an innovative new project within ERI is using duckweed and algae to treat wastewater from fish farms. In 2018, the AQUASUS project received €230,000 in funding under the European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF), administered by BIM on behalf of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Led by Prof Marcel Jansen (School of BEES and ERI), AQUASUS will leverage the natural ability of duckweed and algae to thrive in and purify polluted water, producing both clean water for fish farms and a supply of animal feed, as duckweed and al-gae are edible and high in protein. The project will refine the method involved and focus on the commercial applications, exploring how combinations of algae and duckweed can im-prove water quality, enhance fish production, and yield high quality feed, thus demonstrating the benefits of a financially viable circular economy approach. Innovative approaches are

required to improve viability of the fish farming sector and to satisfy demand for high quality produce. AQUASUS will test a sustainable, low-cost water treatment option for fish farms, and produce an economically viable product, directly contributing to both the sustainability and economic viability of the fish farm industry.

Turning wastewater into animal feed

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Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is one of the fastest growing waste streams. Every year millions of tonnes of electronics are thrown away and with them the valuable metal components, like copper, gold, silver, copper, solder, steel and critical metals such as indium and tantalum. Ireland is particularly good at recycling WEEE, but even with the best intentions, limitations of current technologies mean that not all metals can actually be recovered. However, a new project led by Dr Maria De Sousa Gallagher of the School of Engineering and the ERI, is finding ways to make this so-called ‘urban-mining’ more lucrative. Launched in 2018 and co-funded by the Geological Survey Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency and the ERA-MIN2 funding programme,

the RecEOL project will use two patented recycling processes developed in Ireland for WEEE such as waste printed circuit boards (PCBs), LCDs, batteries and automobile shredder resi-due (ASR) to reclaim over 95% of recycled copper, aluminium, steel and solder. This exceeds the current recovery rates of 70-80%. The process will also be the first recycling technology of its kind to capture critical and special metals, such as indi-um and tantalum from PCBs and LCDs. Bringing together a multi-disciplinary, multi-national consortium from industry and academia, the aim of RecEOL is to demonstrate at pilot plant scale that a scaled-up commercial plant is economically viable and environmentally preferred.

Exploring GMOs as tools for sustainability in the face of climate change

Held in August 2018, the Irish Association for Plant Biotechnology (IAPB) Con-gress brought together 500 scientists from over 50 countries to discuss and present the latest research on plant biotechnology, including the safety of latest GMO op-tions, food security, sustainable methods of food production, crops that can grow in a changing climate, gene editing, use of plants as ‘chemical factories’ for drug production and ways of tackling disease in crops. It offered a unique opportunity to bring the science of GM crops and biotechnology to the fore and to demon-strate the weight of scientific evidence on the safety and economic viability of util-ising biotechnology in agriculture. Congress organisers, IABP President Dr Barbara Doyle-Prestwich and IAPB executive member Dr Eoin Lettice (both of the School of BEES and the ERI), hoped that by hosting the event in Ireland it would help to inform decisions around Irish food production based on sound scientific princi-ples. Dr Doyle-Prestwich and Dr Lettice commented at the Congress about how decisions in 2018 by the Government and Court of Justice of the European Union to restrict novel plant-breeding techniques and use of GMOs in crops would be completely at odds with Ireland’s obligations and ambitions for climate action.

New urban mining project will examine recycling of electronic waste

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PLATEFORMS project to investigate sustainable household food consumption

For decades, food consumption has been associated with unsustainable practices of over-consumption, increased food waste, and unhealthy diets, but given the impact of food production and consumption on global warming, as starkly highlighted in the latest re-port issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the current unsustainable consump-tion patterns can no longer be maintained. Researchers at CUBS and the ERI are asking how new food provi-sioning platforms affect our food choices, and whether they helping us to become more sustainable at home. The EU project, PLATEFORMS, launched in 2018 and funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine will investigate how food supply and food con-sumption are contributing to sustainability. Through in-depth exploration of kitchens and cooking practic-es, researchers will uncover how households use these new food supply platforms and whether they affect food preparation for the family, the means of cook-ing and eating the food, and food disposal. Led by PI Professor Mary McCarthy and Dr Claire O’Neill (both CUBS, ERI), this research will help uncover how the new food supply systems affect households’ transition to environmental, social, and economically responsible consumption. This research will identify unsustainable patterns and examine how, with the use of new supply platforms, we can move forward to a more sustainable future for food on a large scale. This project will also actively promote sustainable food choices through in-volvement with food company owners and by high-lighting sustainable success stories on its website and social media.

Applied nanoscience research for the Circular Economy

Research in Professor Colm O’Dwyer’s group (School of Chemistry and ERI) revolves around energy storage, batter-ies and new materials. His group is developing non-critical raw materials for a range of rechargeable battery systems in-cluding Li-ion, Na-ion, Li-air and Li-S technologies. More re-cently, the group have pioneered 3D printing entire recharge-

able Li-ion cells that can be customised to any shape, using recycled thermoplastics and sustainable electrode materials with a water-based electrolyte. A new project, funded under the Irish Research Council Advanced Laureate Award, aims to minimize the ecological implications associated with the wider use of batteries. To do this, Professor O‘Dwyer’s group are developing real-time ways to monitor, diagnose, screen and predict new sustainable battery materials. Much like a re-al-time fitness programme and health record for humans, the health of energy storage materials and batteries themselves is also important, especially when new materials with lower co-balt content are being considered. It is important to integrate the sustainability of battery materials into these research en-deavours, so the group are looking at new chemistries that have a minimum footprint in nature and that are more readily recycled or integrated into a full circular economy.

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New Appointments

Dr Markus Eichhorn, School of BEES & the ERI

New School of BEES lecturer, Markus is an ecologist with a particular interest in how forest structure forms through the interactions between trees, and how the architecture of forests influences the many species living inside them. This includes both natural and managed forests in regions from boreal Russia to the tropical rain forests of Malaysia. Markus’ research involves everything from field surveys through to simulation modelling and he has worked in natural and managed forests worldwide.

Dr Timothy Sullivan, School of BEES & the ERI

Environmental Science lecturer, Dr Timothy Sullivan comes to UCC from the Depart-ment of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology. Tim’s main interests are at the interface between marine and aquatic chemistry, analytical chemistry and materials science. He is interested in novel bio-inspired (and biomimetic) materials, climate change and the marine environment, and the use of sensors in envi-ronmental monitoring. He has worked on aquatic microbial communities, biofilms and benthic diatoms, and development of novel materials for prevention of biological growth on materials, including nano-material based coatings, micro and nano-topographically structured surfaces and omniphobic materials.

Bioenergy and the Circular Economy

The work of the MaREI bioenergy group in the ERI, led by Professor Jerry Murphy, encompasses labo-ratory experiments, techno-economic analysis and lifecycle sustainability assessments for the produc-tion of renewable green gas (biomethane). Ongoing circular economy studies aim to improve the effi-ciency of anaerobic digestion (AD) through direct species electron transfer, and analyse the sustainabil-ity and techno-economic performance of power to gas (electrofuel) systems in Ireland. The newly EPA funded Advanced Gaseous Biomethane (ASSET) project will evaluate a future integrated bioenergy system, including the concepts of cascading bioen-ergy and circular bioeconomy. The ambition of this project is to propose a circular bioenergy system producing renewable transport biomethane, and to evaluate the potential role it can play in energy sys-tems and in the reduction of greenhouse gas emis-sions. In Ireland, approximately 40% of total energy consumption is associated with transport (mainly fuelled by petrol and diesel); this has contributed to significant greenhouse gas emissions and impacted negatively on urban air quality. Ireland has a target to achieve 10% renewable transport by 2020, but the technological strategy is not certain as yet. AD is a viable technology to produce biogas (60% biometh-ane and 40% carbon dioxide), whilst treating wastes and residues. Integrating power to gas (P2G) with AD offers an innovative means to upgrade biogas to green gas (97% biomethane) and support intermit-tent renewable electricity production.

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SECTION 3 – ERI Research Centres’ Reports

MaREI is coordinated by the ERI and is Ireland’s SFI Centre for

energy, climate and marine research, development and innovation

working across 12 Irish academic institutions and collaborating

with over 50 industry partners. The Centre is led by Co-Directors

Professor Brian Ó Gallachóir and Professor Jerry Murphy.

3.1 MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and the Marine

In June 2018, project CHIMERA (China Ireland Modelling Energy Research Assessments) was the first SFI-NFSC project funded in the Energy and Environmental Sustainability cate-gory as announced by Tánaiste Simon Coveney and Minister Pat Breen. Researchers from MaREI and the Peoples Repub-lic of China secured €1,470,000 in funds from Science Foun-dation Ireland (SFI) and National Science Foundation China (NSFC) for a joint project on reducing CO2 emissions. This project will explore how the greatest economic advantage can be achieved from the transition to a low carbon clean energy future by investigating which energy technologies, processes, and services will provide new job opportunities in the future by linking energy computer models with economic models. The project, led by MaREI Director Prof Brian Ó Gallachóir and team, will use integrated assessment models, with multi-re-gion Ireland, China, and Global versions, which will help to investigate trade-offs between the energy, climate and eco-nomic systems and their results will help advise policymakers, industry, regulators and citizens groups. Researchers will out-line the impact of the additional costs of decarbonisation, and

give insights into technology roadmaps and policy pathways on how the zero carbon transition could affect society, quan-tifying benefits upon local air pollution, health, water quality, climate damages, employment and the economy at large.

In September, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) allocated €300k in funding to MaREI to empower community groups in Renewable Energy Projects and catalyse a new generation of community-owned energy developments. ‘Support Tools for Community Renewable Energy’ is one of 45 SEAI funded research, development and demonstration projects which aim to develop solutions that will help homes, businesses and communities in Ire-land to deliver a cleaner energy future. The project is a multidisci-plinary undertaking which draws on expertise from across UCC and UCC spin out Exceedence Ltd. The aim is to deliver an online tool which will empower community groups to self-organise, plan, finance and develop their own renewable energy projects. The soft-ware will be co-developed with 3 rural and 3 urban communities to ensure that it meets their expectations in terms of functionality and transparency. The project is led by MaREI Research Fellow, Dr Cian Desmond.

International Engagement - CHIMERA project

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In July 2018, it was officially announced that MaREI secured €4.4 million to support Ireland’s indigenous biomass and bio-energy industry from the SFI and industry partners under the Sustainable Energy and Fuel Efficiency (SEFE) SFI Spokes Programme. The SEFE Research Programme led by Professor Henry Curran (NUI Galway) and MaREI Director Professor Jerry Murphy (UCC) leverages the scientific expertise of ten of Ireland’s top academics in bioenergy research across four Universities (NUI Galway, UCC, UL, TCD) and Teagasc. The programme of work also includes the technical and commer-cial expertise of ten national and international companies.

This four-year collaborative programme aims to identify vi-able routes to increase the efficient utilisation and supply of sustainable energy, and to support Ireland’s ambition to meet national and EU environmental targets. The technologies to be advanced by the SEFE Spoke will address some of the draw-backs associated with Ireland’s reliance on imported biofuels and intermittent renewables by improving the efficiency and reducing the carbon intensity of power generation and trans-port from combustion and boosting the supply of renewable heat, which makes up 41% of Ireland’s energy consumption, as well as meeting sustainable waste management challenges.

Responsible Research and Innovation – RRING & GRRIP

After two decades of European initia-tives to promote ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’ (RRI) in academia, R&D organisations and industrial research, in 2018 MaREI and ICORSA (Internation-al Consortium of Researcher Staff As-sociations) won two Horizon 2020 proj-ects, collectively worth €4.5 million to research, develop and implement RRI. The first project RRING, which stands for ‘Responsible Research and Innova-tion Networking Globally’ sees MaREI together with ICORSA, UNESCO and 20 other international partners tasked with developing a set of internationally

approved guidelines, that promote RRI in all spheres globally. RRING aims to ensure that research worldwide adheres to a set of principles that ensures all fu-ture research is conducted in a sustain-able and ethical way, good for society, and good for communities of people globally. The second project GRRIP (Grounding RRI practices in research performing organisations) focuses on creating RRI action plans for five marine and maritime research institutions. Ma-REI will be one of the recipient institu-tions of such a plan (the first in Ireland), as well as four other European marine

and maritime institutions. The MaREI case study will be a template for oth-er institutions in Ireland to adopt and will pay particular attention to public engagement in all stages of governance (from RRI strategy creation to imple-mentation and evaluation).

Launch of the SFI-SEFE Spoke

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During September, the Climate Ireland team delivered Adap-tation Planning Training Workshops throughout Ireland for the recently established Climate Action Regional Offices (CA-RO’s) as part of a national requirement for Local Authorities to prepare Local Adaptations Strategies to mainstream cli-mate adaptation into their planning and policy. The hands-on

workshops involved training and capacity building amongst the CARO staff and their regional Local Authorities in Kilken-ny, Cork, Athlone, Mayo and Dublin. The work of the Climate Ireland team at MaREI in the development of sectoral plan-ning guidelines and in the development of the National Adap-tation Framework (NAF) was acknowledged by the Minister of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. In addition, in 2018 MaREI researchers Prof. Brian Ó Gallachóir (MaREI Director), Dr. Paul Deane (Re-search Fellow), and Sean Collins (PhD Candidate), collaborat-ed with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) to investigate the capacity of the EU to increase its ambitions with regard to penetrations of renewable energy by 2030. The evidence provided through this collaboration subsequently underpinned the EU’s decision to increase its 2030 renewable energy targets from 27%, which had been agreed in 2014, to a new level of 32%. MaREI’s analysis focussed on building an EU power systems model, and subsequently utilised this model to assess the feasibility of achieving an overall share of 50% from renewable electricity by 2030.

During 2018, commissioning and accreditation of the Lir National Ocean Test Facility was com-pleted, concluding a three-year, €4m investment and including a quality system and ISO17025 application. The Deep Ocean Basin at Lir-NOTF received the highest number of applications across all 54 facilities under the MARINET2 Transnational Ac-cess Programme during 2018. MaRINET2 is a €10.5m Horizon 2020 funded project which sup-ports offshore renewable energy R&D activities. It provides free-of-charge access to a network of 57 world-leading research facili-ties across Europe through a se-ries of competitive calls.

Lir-NOTF Commissioning

Communications and Outreach Initiatives: During 2018, MaREI focussed on the further enhancement of its communications strategy in order to better demonstrate the impact of its research and the value of the investment, and to create a more identifiable and impactful brand for the Centre. Details of MaREI’s outreach, communication and EPE activities can be found in Section 4: Outreach & EPE.

Local and National Engagement on Climate Action

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CRAC is a leading national centre for atmospheric chemistry research

carrying out laboratory, field and modelling studies to support clean

air quality. The CRAC Centre Director is Professor John Wenger.

3.2 Centre for Research on Atmospheric Chemistry (CRAC)

Launch of national air monitoring station at UCC

Air pollution is responsible for over 1,500 premature deaths in Ireland every year. In 2018, the urgent need to expand and enhance the monitoring of air quality in Cork prompted UCC to invest €66k in a new air monitoring station, which will be operated by CRAC. The facility, based at UCC North Mall Campus will be run in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Met Eireann. The prominent air pollutants ozone and nitrogen dioxide will be continuous-ly monitored, along with very fine dust particles (particulate matter) that have many serious health effects. The data will feed into international atmospheric observation networks and the recently expanded National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme run by the EPA, which aims to deliv-er enhanced air quality information for Ireland in real-time. Roadside stations, urban sites, and rural locations are all in-cluded in the network and partnership with local authorities and third-level institutions will be crucial to the management and maintenance of these facilities nationwide. The establish-ment of a new atmospheric monitoring station demonstrates UCC’s commitment to community service while striving for excellence in atmospheric research. Stations such as this will

significantly increase the availability of localised, accessible, real-time air quality information, enabling the public to make informed decisions and also better informing national and regional policymakers.

Pictured at the official launch of the UCC Air Monitoring Station were (L-R): Professor John Wenger (head of the Centre for Research on Atmospheric Chemistry), Cllr Fergal Dennehy (Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork), Dr Laura Burke (Director General of the EPA), and Professor Andy Ruth (UCC Dept of Physics Senior Lecturer).

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CRAC participates in EU monitoring campaign to detect winter air pollutants

Carbonaceous aerosol emissions (carbon-based particulate matter suspend-ed in the air) arise from energy use and the burning of forest, grasslands and agricultural residues and represent a major fraction of the ambient aerosol in Europe. It influences the atmospheric radiative balance and contributes to adverse health effects. Consequently, carbonaceous aerosol is a key species measured regularly in air quality networks, such as the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP), the co-operative programme for moni-toring and evaluation of the long-range transmission of air pollutants in Eu-rope. EMEP operates closely with the ACTRIS (Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research Infra Structure Network) project, a European project aim-ing at integrating European ground-based stations equipped with advanced atmospheric probing instrumentation for aerosols, clouds, and short-lived gas-phase species. The wintertime EMEP/ACTRIS intensive measurement period in 2018 involved 45 monitoring sites across Europe, focusing on rural background environments, comparing estimates of residential and vehicu-lar contributions to black carbonaceous aerosols. CRAC and C-CAPS un-dertook monitoring and data collection at four Irish locations. These sites were located in Carnsore Point, Co. Wexford, Mace Head, Co. Galway, Malin Head, Co. Donegal and in the Belfield campus of University College Dublin.

CRAC highlights link between air quality and traffic in Cork city

In April 2018 researchers at CRAC carried out two air mon-itoring walks with reporters from Cork’s 96FM to gauge the levels of air pollution in the city during the 2018 traffic ban, a measure banning private cars from Patrick Street in the city centre between the hours of 3pm and 6.30pm in an attempt to reduce traffic congestion. CRAC PhD students Paul Buck-ley, Eimear Heffernan and Niall O’Sullivan under the super-vision of Professor John Wenger & Professor John Sodeau monitored levels of PM2.5, which are inhalable fine particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less and known to cause serious

health problems particularly to those who are already com-promised such as the elderly and infants. Each 10 mg/m3 of PM2.5 reduces the ability of infants to fight infection by 15-25%. Traffic is a significant source of PM2.5. This monitoring session revealed that Cork’s Daunt Square had pollution lev-els as high as London on the same day. While a single after-noon of air monitoring under one set of weather conditions is not enough to draw firm conclusions, the findings indicate a worrying trend and highlight the need to continuously mon-itor Cork’s air quality at the roadside.

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The CPPU conducts multi-disciplinary research on the sustainability

of socio-technical systems; sustainable consumption; governance

for sustainability; and the broader human aspects of sustainable

development. The Unit is led by Dr Niall Dunphy.

3.3 Cleaner Production Promotion Unit (CPPU)

Exploring the Lived Experience of Energy

April 2018 saw the successful completion of the CPPU-led Horizon 2020 project, ENTRUST. Over the past three years ENTRUST has been exploring the human and societal as-pects of the energy system. The milestone was marked in Brussels by an exhibition of the results from this innovative study into people’s relationship with energy and the energy system, which showcased the novel participatory process-es used in the project. The project took an intersectional approach - to give recognition to the diversity inherent in communities - and to consider the effects that gender, age and socioeconomic status have for transitioning to low car-bon energy system. This allowed researchers to not only recognise the complexity of identities, but also to capture the impact that such complexity may have on attitudes to-ward, and perceptions of, the energy system, as well as on the energy practices, behaviours, and engagement with that system. The project employed methodologies such as Par-ticipatory Action Research to empower members to con-tribute to the shaping of ‘their’ energy system in the context of the low-carbon transition. The project outputs includ-ed the development of innovative transition pathways and business models capable of being replicated in different communities; a policy toolkit for policymakers and practi-tioners, which outlines a step-by-step methodology to ex-plore opportunities in the energy sector and presents a set of policy recommendations aimed at reducing the environ-mental impact from energy consumption; as well as market, technological and socio-demographic analyses.

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Putting the human being in the energy grid

Dr Niall Dunphy, CPPU Director, was an in-vited speaker at the 10th EU Citizens’ Energy Forum held in September in Dublin Castle. The 2018 edition of the forum focused on the in-teraction of consumers with the energy market and it particularly examined three aspects: the role of consumers in the context of the mea-sures proposed by the ‘Clean energy for all Eu-ropeans’ package and the ‘New Deal for Con-sumers’ package; novel business models for the consumer retail market; and innovative solu-tions for consumer engagement and communi-cation. Building on his research on the human dimension of the energy system, Dr Dunphy’s talk challenged the approach of considering en-ergy consumption in isolation from daily living practices, and he posited that developing ef-fective consumer engagement strategies in the energy domain necessitates conceiving them as more than just consumers of a commodity.

Streamlining the retrofit process to improve energy performance30 participants from 13 partners assembled in Cork in March 2018 as CPPU played host to the penultimate general meeting of the NewTREND Horizon 2020 project. This innovative project brings together 30 partners in 7 countries to develop an integrated design methodology and toolset for the selection, design and optimisation of retrofitting solution for buildings in a neighbourhood context to improve their energy per-formance. The methodology presents a guided process through all steps of refurbishment from concept to op-eration and a decision process for the selection, design and optimisation of retrofitting solution for buildings

in their neighbourhood context. Significantly, it takes into account all stakeholders (including inhabitants and building users) in the design and construction process. In contrast to the traditional design process, which does not include energy-related aspects in the early de-sign phase, nor does it tend to provide easy access to planning tools or existing data models, NewTREND in-corporates web tools such as a data manager, technol-ogy library and collaborative design platform, allowing for such retrofitting to be coordinated at a district as well as building-level.

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The AFDC is a centre of excellence for aquaculture and fisheries research focusing

on fisheries and fish population genetics, health of aquaculture species, and marine

mammal research. The Centre is led by its Director, Professor Sarah Culloty.

3.4 Aquaculture and Fisheries Development Centre (AFDC)

Cork to host European Aquaculture Conference 2020

There is now a momentum in all types of food production towards a circular economy where we no longer regard waste as a problem to be disposed of, but instead look for ways to make it a reusable resource. Aquaculture is well placed to lead by example with new sustainable technologies such as land-based aquaponics and large-scale recirculating marine farms. Recent research has shown that aquaculture prod-ucts, from seaweed to salmon, should be included as part of a healthy diet throughout our lives. A successful bid led by

Professor Gavin Burnell (School of BEES, AFDC and the ERI) will lead to Cork playing host to the European Aquaculture Conference in 2020. This prestigious conference will promote the sponsorship of multi-disciplinary aquaculture research, bringing together stakeholders from many diverse disciplines to discuss and debate cross cutting issues such as circular economies, holistic health and sustainable production, and enhance cooperation amongst governmental, scientific and commercial organisations and individuals.

European Parliament Committee on Fisheries visit the AFDC

On Sept 17th, the European Committee on Fisheries mission to Ireland paid a visit to the UCC School of BEES North Mall Campus to hear about the ongoing teaching and research activities being conducted by BEES, MaREI, AFDC and the ERI in relation to aquaculture and fisheries. The delegation, which consisted of five members of the European Parliament, including Irish MEPs Sean Kelly and Liadh Ní Riada, along with two members of the Secretariat of the Committee on Fisheries, were on a weeklong mission to Cork to hear first-hand about the difficulties facing the Irish fishing industry. The visit was proposed by Ms Ní Riada, who sits on the Fisheries Committee in Europe, to understand and illustrate the unique problems faced by Irish fishermen to EU offi-cials. Professor Sarah Culloty and Professor Andy Wheeler

(School of BEES, iCRAG, ERI) provided the delegation with an overview of the research activities in the School of BEES and the AFDC, highlighting key projects in the areas of cir-cular economy, aquaculture, marine ecosystem biodiversity and marine and coastal governance. The group also received a tour of the AFDC tank facilities and had the opportunity to ask questions of BEES researchers in relation to issues such as plastic pollution, wildlife conservation, shellfish health and fish farming. MEP Sean Kelly expressed his gratitude to the researchers for their ongoing efforts in relation to the under-standing and protection of the Irish marine ecosystem, and advised that the key issues raised during the visit would be relayed to the European Parliament.

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Fish and shellfish health and disease in the era of climate change

Climate change is predicted to have particularly detrimen-tal effects on the commercial fish and shellfish industries and the vulnerable coastal communities that rely on these for their livelihoods. Research in the AFDC is ongoing in the area of fish and shellfish health and disease, particularly with regard to adaptation and mitigation strategies such as devel-oping resistance in fish and shellfish strains and up-skilling stakeholders, and national and transnational collaboration is particularly crucial with regard to preserving our fishing in-dustry in a changing climate. The InterReg-funded Cockles project (Cooperation for the recovery of cockle fisheries and their environmental services in the Atlantic Area), a collab-oration between UCC and universities in France, Spain and Wales, held its kick-off meeting and first stakeholder event in October in UCC. In November, ERI Director Professor

Sarah Culloty became a member of the Centre for Environ-ment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) Scientific Advisory Committee in the UK. CEFAS is the UK’s most di-verse centre for applied marine and freshwater science and research, covering a breadth of specialist areas including aquaculture and fisheries to help create and secure healthy and sustainable marine and freshwater environments. In addition, significant interdisciplinary publications from the AFDC this year (a full list of which is included in the Publica-tions Section) included a focus on the gut microbiome of fish (in collaboration with SFI Research Centre APC Microbiome Ireland, Teagasc and industry partners), and an international study on the potential of seaweed bioactives to reduce dis-ease in shellfish, which was conducted in conjunction with the Mahidol University of Thailand.

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The UN Environment GEMS/Water Capacity Development

Centre (CDC) provides global capacity development in water

quality monitoring and assessment working on a programme

of activities to support the Water Sustainable Development

Goals. The Centre is led by its Director, Dr Debbie Chapman.

3.5 UN Environment GEMS/Water Capacity Development Centre

UN GEMS/Water CDC team support Sustainable Development Goal 6

The Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) aims to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. This goal will be achieved in stages through a series of smaller targets which have associat-ed indicators and responsible partners. For example implementing partners must identify shared objectives, including local partners and country level agencies with whom to work, as well as establish a timeframe for delivera-bles, determine ongoing indicators for communication, and create guide-lines to measure performance. As implementing partners of the SDG6.3.2, which measures ambient water quality at national scale, UN GEMS/Water CDC are involved in core activities crucial to the achievement of this goal, such as contributing to the SDG 6.3.2 methodology; authoring the Indica-tor and Synthesis Reports for SDG 6.3.2 ; providing baseline and in-country support for the global rollout of the indicator; producing interactive tutorials describing core parameters and technical details related to SDG 6.3.2; and delivering in-situ workshops and advice. The Centre organised a feedback workshop on the methodology and implementation in Dublin in October 2018, which was the first of its kind to review the methodology of an SDG indicator. In addition, Stuart Warner of GEMS/Water CDC attended World Water Week in Stockholm, in August, primarily to contribute to the launch of the Indicator Report for SDG Indicator 6.3.2 and associated activities. The SDG6 Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation, which reviewed the global progress made towards achieving SGD 6, was launched at the High Level Political Forum at the UN Headquarters in New York in July.

GEMS rolls out monitoring programme and network design for surface water bodies

Continuing their mandate to provide expert advice on monitoring programme design and implementation in Africa and other world regions, UN GEMS/Water CDC hosted several international training workshops in 2018. The second full training workshop on the topic of Monitoring programme and network design for surface water bodies was held in Dakar, Senegal in July 2018. The workshop, funded by Irish Aid, was aimed at participants directly involved in water quali-ty monitoring at the operational level, and participants were selected (based on their role in their Ministry or Organization) from those nominated by GEMS/Water National Focal Points in French speaking African countries. There was a total of 14 participants from 13 countries. The training comprised taught sessions and group activities organised by the UN GEMS/Water CDC with the objective of introducing the principles and step-by-step procedures for designing water quality monitoring programmes for freshwater bodies.

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Outreach and training activities

The GEMS/Water CDC team continued to travel the globe in 2018 undertaking outreach and networking crucial to the expansion of the GEMS/Water network and to the engagement of countries worldwide with water quality monitoring for SDG indicator 6.3.2. Stuart Warner represented the Centre at Africa Water Week in Gabon in October. The event is convened by AMCOW (African Ministers Council on Water) with African Union Commission and is concerned with Africa’s water and sanitation challenges. The GEMS/Water international team hosted a technical session looking at innovations in water quality monitoring and how investments in monitoring are necessary. Dr Debbie Chapman also travelled to Plymouth in October to contribute to the MONOCLE webinar on sustainability in water quality moni-toring networks. The MONOCLE (Multiscale Observation Networks for Optical monitoring of Coastal waters, Lakes and Estuaries) project is also working to develop and utilize Earth Observations and sensors to monitor water quality in conjunction with citizen science. Dr Chapman and Dr John Weatherill (School of BEES, ERI) also participated in the Progetto Minore conference in Lecce in December. The conference is concerned with the preservation of human health through the protection of the Salento region’s water resources. In addition, the Centre completed the first year of the GEMS/Water Postgraduate Diploma in Freshwater Quality Monitoring and Assessment in 2018 (pictured above), which provides existing or future water professionals with the necessary knowledge to design and implement freshwater quality monitoring and assessment programmes.

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The Centre for Law and the Environment is a centre of excellence for research, teaching and advocacy

work relating to law and the environment. Based in the School of Law, the Centre supports and promotes

a wide range of high-impact research activity in Environmental, Marine, Climate, Energy and Natural

Resources Law. The Centre is led by its Co-Directors Professor Owen McIntyre and Dr Áine Ryall.

3.6 Centre for Law and the Environment

Launch of the Centre for Law and the Environment

The Centre for Law and the Environment was launched for-mally on 26th April 2018 by Vice-Admiral Mark Mellet DSM, Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces and Adjunct Pro-fessor at the College of Business and Law, UCC. The launch event was attended by longstanding supporters and friends of the School of Law, including regular contributors to the annual Law and the Environment Conference. Although the Centre is rooted firmly in the discipline of Law, it is engaged in significant interdisciplinary research collaborations and extensive outreach and advocacy activity. Contemporary de-velopments in the field of environmental human rights law,

and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), inform the Centre’s activities. Identifying, develop-ing and promoting innovative legal and policy responses to the climate challenge is a significant focus for the Centre. The Centre is affiliated with the ERI and works closely with ERI colleagues, including for example in the context of the UCC Climate Lab. The Centre assists in coordination of ongoing research collaboration between researchers in the School of Law and MaREI on the Marine Institute-funded Navigate Project on Ocean Law and Marine Governance.

Climate Change Law, Policy and Practice

Dr Áine Ryall was awarded a Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellow-ship at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence for the period of September-December 2018. These prestigious fellowships are awarded to established scholars with an international reputation to pursue their research at the EUI. The research project ‘Promoting Compliance with Climate Obligations: the Impact of Climate Law & Litigation in Ireland’ explored the intersections between human rights law, EU law and climate law. It also examined critically the impact of efforts to date to use litigation strategically in Ireland to promote compliance with climate obligations. Dr Ryall served previously as a member of the Expert Advisory Group to the Citizens’ Assembly on the climate change module of its work.

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On 26th April 2018, the Centre for Law and the Environment hosted the 16th annual Law and the Environment Confer-ence, which comprised over 30 presentations delivered by expert speakers from Ireland, Europe and beyond. The event was designed to promote better understanding of the possible impacts of key environmental challenges on regulatory, leg-islative and judicial decision-making. Over 200 participants enjoyed presentations grouped into 13 specialist sessions and arranged around the overarching conference theme: Towards Environmental Responsibility, Accountability and Liability. The conference programme included specialist sessions on: Climate & Energy Law; Developments in Climate Litigation; Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy; Marine Environ-mental law; Contemporary Developments in Planning Law; Effective Enforcement of Environmental Liabilities; New

Technologies and Environmental Responsibility. The impacts of Brexit for the evolution and practice of environmental law provided an important sub-theme, with further specialist sessions addressing such issues as ‘Brexit and the Future of Environmental Law’ and ‘Brexit and the Future of Fisheries’. In conjunction with the annual Law and the Environment Conference, the Centre hosted the 10th annual Postgraduate Research Symposium on Environmental Law, which saw pre-sentations on leading-edge research delivered by postgradu-ate researchers from a range of Irish, UK, European and over-seas institutions. As always, this event provided a platform for new research activity in the field, as well as an opportunity for the postgraduate researchers to interact with the speakers and participants gathered for the annual conference.

Corporate Sustainability

Professor Irene Lynch Fannon is a partner in SMART (Sustainable Market Actors) an EU Commission project based at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law. In January 2018, Professor Lynch Fannon hosted and participated in a workshop on ‘Enforcing Environmental Sustainability in the Face of Business Failure and Distress’ at the Uni-versity of Oslo Faculty of Law. The interface between various different branches of law has become problematic in many areas and so the workshop demonstrated through a range of papers the complexity of imposing more modern environmental legislative frameworks and principles, for example the ‘polluter pays principle’ onto a corporate insolvency and rescue framework where principles have been developing since the 19th century with a totally different set of interests at the centre. This is a small example of the broader challenge presented to sustainability by fundamental concepts of corporate law as they are understood presently. Changing these assumptions is part of a broader research agenda pursued by the SMART Project. Professor Lynch Fannon participated in European Researchers’ night in September 2018 on the theme ‘Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an agent for Change’. Her edited collection of essays with Pro-fessor Beate Sjafjell Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change was published in 2018 (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

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Climate Change and Disaster Law

The study of criminal justice and human rights and the intersection between the two raises complex and challenging questions and the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR), established by the School of Law, UCC in 2006, seeks to contribute to national and international debates on these questions through the promotion of cut-ting edge interdisciplinary research, innovative programmes of legal education and training, and strategic partnerships with Government, statutory bodies, and civil society organisations worldwide. Deputy Di-rector of the CCJHR, Dr Dug Cubie collaborates with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), who are re-searching the links between climate change, disaster risk reduction and the SDGs. Ongoing areas of focus stemming from these partnerships include international disaster law, gender-based violence in disasters, children’s rights in disasters and human rights in disasters.

The Centre places significant emphasis on outreach and community engagement. To this end, it hosted a range of public events in 2018. On 18th October 2018, Doug Ruley, General Counsel at ClientEarth, delivered a guest lecture on the theme ‘It’s a Mean-ingful Life: Law in the Age of Climate Change’. The lecture explored the ability of current legal frame-works to address the interconnected climate chal-lenges related to deforestation, biodiversity includ-ing species extinction, global population growth, renewable energy and food production. On 9th November 2018, the Centre, in association with the SHEP Earth Aware group, hosted a public lec-ture on the theme ‘Ireland’s Climate Policy Failures: Time for the Courts’. The focus of this lecture was

the High Court litigation being taken by Friends of the Irish Environment seeking to hold government accountable for its role in knowingly contributing to dangerous levels of climate change. A public seminar on the theme ‘Nature Conservation in the Anthropocene’ was held on 18th December 2018. The seminar was delivered by Professor Patrick Parenteau, Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Centre. It focused on the twin dangers of global warming and ocean acidification which threaten a massive pauperisation of the world’s biodiversity. It exam-ined how existing laws and policies are not ade-quate to deal with these global crises and need to adapt and evolve quickly.

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SECTION 4 – ERI in the Media

ERI in RTÉ Brainstorm Top 40The RTÉ Brainstorm initiative has proven to be an extremely effective platform for our researchers to share their insights, opinions and experience with the public. In the first 6 months of Brainstorm, two pieces from ERI researcher Dr Eamonn Mullholland made the Top 40 Most Read articles, and the majority (~70%) of the articles on the topic of climate change are from researchers at the ERI.

January

• Managing a precious resource, Dr Debbie Chapman, ISO Focus, Jan 27th

• Are biologically based plastics a realistic replacement for petrochemical plastics? NEWTRIENTS project, Irish Times, Jan 29th

April

• Seabird colonies in danger as snap-happy tourists flock to Great Saltee island, Dr John Quinn, The Times Irish Edition, Apr 30th

• Big Week on the Farm, Shane McDonagh, RTE One, Apr 12th

July

• UCC-led research shows Europe could generate one-third of energy through renewable sources, Sean Collins, Examiner, Jul 27th

• Lack of enforcement of environmental laws ‘a national scandal’, Dr Aine Ryall, Irish Times, Jul 16th

• Heated debate: making our homes carbon-free, Dr Paul Deane, Irish Times, Jul 19th

• Experts baffled by explosion of lion’s mane jellyfish on the west coast, Irish Independent, Dr Damien Haberlin, Jul 16th

October

• ‘Super-sized’ mice threaten seabird colonies with extinction, Dr Anthony Caravaggi, BBC News, Oct 22nd

• Wind farms ‘are causing drop in bird population’, Dr Darío Fernández-Bellon, The Times Ireland Edition, Oct 23rd

February

• UCC scientists clean up fish farms and feed stock, Prof Marcel Jansen, Irish Examiner, Feb 2nd

• The future of trucks, Dr Eamonn Mullholland, RTÉ Brainstorm, Feb 11th

• Fantastic beasts and unlikely heroes: the best visual art this week, Sustainable Futures, Irish Times, Feb 3rd

May

• Oldest known case of dandruff found in 125m-year-old dinosaur, Dr Maria McNamara, The Guardian, May 25th

• Experts act to monitor degraded air quality in Cork city, CRAC, The Irish Times, May 28th

• Drone filming on Skellig Michael poses risk to puffins, warns An Taisce, MaREI, The Irish Times, May 28th

August

• Maybe this is the summer we all start to believe in global warming, ClimATT, Irish Times, Aug 6th

• Has the anti-GMO movement ‘hijacked’ sustainable agriculture? Dr Eoin Lettice, Irish Farmers Journal, Aug 31st

• Lion’s mane jellyfish extends tentacles to west coast of Ireland, The Examiner, Dr Damien Haberlin, Aug 30th

November

• The Irishwoman using big data for the public good with the UN, Dr Marguerite Nyhan, Irish Times, Nov 29th

• Rare Beluga whale, mainly an Arctic species, found off Irish coast, MaREI & BEES, Irish Times, Nov 23rd

March

• Today with Maura and Daithi, Dr Kieran Hickey, RTÉ, Mar 19th

• It’s not easy being green - and blue, Prof Jerry Murphy, Sunday Business Post, Mar 11th

• Storm Emma: Was it better to be safe than sorry? Dr Kieran Hickey, Independent, Mar 11th

June

• Latest ‘urban mining’ tech to be piloted in Ireland under ¤1.4m scheme, Dr Maria De Sousa, Silicon Republic, Jun 20th

• Should we have an environmental levy on meat and milk in Ireland? Dr Paul Deane, RTÉ Brainstorm, Jun 25th

• Balmy conditions, spring tides may increase risk of jellyfish stings, Dr Tom Doyle, Irish Times, Jun 25th

September

• Who Wants to Eat a Gooey Jellyfish? Pretty Much Everyone in the Ocean, Dr Tom Doyle, The New York Times, Sept 28th

• Climate change could see farm exodus, according to poll, Dr Paul Deane, The Examiner, Sept 17th

December

• Make it a really happy Christmas by buying less stuff, Dr Eoin Flynn, The Times (Irish Edition), Dec 20th

• Sustainable Christmas Steps, Dr Eoin Flynn, Dr Marcus Eichorn, Prof John Sodeau, Dr Paul Deane, Dr Paul Bolger, Dr Niall O’Leary, Dr Claire O’Neill, Prof Mary McCarthy, Dec 15th

• Academics talk turkey and other festive advice, Dr Eoin Flynn, Dr Marcus Eichorn, Prof John Sodeau, Dr Paul Deane, Dr Paul Bolger, Dr Niall O’Leary, Dr Claire O’Neill, Prof Mary McCarthy, The CorkMan, Dec 20th

• Feathers and Fur Fly Over Pterosaur Fossil Finding, Dr Maria McNamara, New York Times, Dec 17th

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SECTION 5 – Outreach & Public Engagement

2018 was a busy year for festivals in Ireland providing numerous platforms for our researchers to bring science from the field, the lab or the desk to the local community - inspiring, informing and discussing with all ages.

Festival Fever

Bringing Science to the city

The 2018 Cork Science Festival consisted of a week-long programme of events, during which researchers from the ERI, MaREI, CRAC, and UN GEMS/Water CDC featured at the family days held in UCC and Nep-tune Stadium. We held an interactive booth containing demonstrations, activities and information for both parents and children on the topics of climate change, renewable energy, marine life, and air and water quality.

Cork Culture Night provided the opportunity to cele-brate the established role of science, research and tech-nology in Cork’s cultural scene. The School of BEES, a favourite fixture of Culture Night, allowed visitors to get hands-on with specimens from their collections of mammals, sea creatures, plants, geological samples and fossils. With the additions of exhibits such as Meet the Scientist, the albatross photo booth, water testing demos and the chance to participate in a fossil dig, the School of BEES continued to offer a diverse and unique element to the Festival.

Coordinated by the Cork Food Policy Council, the an-nual Cork Harvest Festival Harvest in October 2018 celebrated the wealth of community food and the growing initiatives throughout Cork. Featuring tours, workshops, talks, demonstrations and tastings, the 2018 Festival invited participation from the ERI to dis-cuss the theme of soil health where Dr Eoin Lettice (School of BEES, ERI) presented a well-attended pub-lic talk on the topic, entitled ‘The root of the matter: plant-soil interactions for sustainable food production’.

In September, UCC played host to the 2018 European Researchers Night. Branded ‘Cork Discovers’, the city-wide event included demos, exhibitions, information stands and a careers café and welcomed members of the public of all ages. ERI researchers from CRAC, MaREI, AFDC, and School of Microbiology participat-ed in this successful outreach campaign, coordinated by the UCC Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation and UCC Academy.

Bringing Science to the sea

Cork’s maritime legacy is celebrated annually during the Cork Harbour Festival and Volvo Cork Week and each year MaREI plays a key role in ensuring that preservation and protection of our marine environment is uppermost in the minds of vis-itors to these events. MaREI teamed up with Clean Coasts in July 2018 to support Volvo Cork Week to run as a Clean Regatta and subsequently receive gold certification from the International Sailors for the Sea programme. MaREI advised and supported the organisers on implementing a number of Clean Regattas Best Practices to reduce the environmental impact, including the provision of reusable water bottles and hydration stations, compostable food and coffee containers, paper straws, energy conservation, online registration forms, and an information campaign on reducing single use plastics and marine litter. In addition, as part of the Cork Harbour Fes-tival in June 2018, MaREI ran a community event on plastics, recycling and the plague of marine litter in collaboration with An Taisce’s Coastal Programme, with a panel of researchers, recycling ambassadors and community influencers.

Researchers from MaREI, School of BEES and AFDC travelled to Galway in June 2018 to showcase their research as part of SeaFest 2018, Ireland’s national maritime festival. MaREI Cen-tre Director, Professor Brian Ó Gallachóir, gave the keynote presentation at Our Ocean Wealth Summit on Investing in Marine Research & Innovation, while BEES/AFDC InterReg projects Cockles and BlueFish featured in the SeaFest Trade-show.

Bringing Science to the countryside

Further afield, and despite the extreme weather disruptions of Storm Ali, The National Ploughing Championships once again provided the opportunity for researchers from MaREI and ERI to display their research projects to members of the farming community. Researchers from the ERI NEWTRIENTS project were on standby to explain how the ERI is developing inno-vative technologies to produce recyclable materials and food from dairy processing wastewater.

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The Humble Science of Predicting our Energy Future

In 2018, Dr Paul Deane (MaREI, ERI, School of Engineering) was named as the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Engineering and Computer Science Speaker of the Year. As part of the out-reach programme organised by the RIA’s Engineering and Computer Science Committee, the position is awarded annually to a candidate with exceptional communication and public outreach skills to deliver a lecture in Academy House Dublin, before touring around a num-ber of national venues in 2018. Paul delivered a nationwide lecture series under the title The Humble Science of Predicting Our Energy Future. Paul used his lectures to emphasise how human behaviour would be a crucial factor in determining the world’s energy future, and noted that a cleaner energy future depends on variables such as social trends, public welfare and Government policies that are in concert with scientific endeavour.

On World Environment Day 2018, Dr Niall O’Leary (School of Microbiology, ERI) invited 6th class students of St. Catherine’s NS to participate in a specially organised event entitled ‘Eco-Kidz: Inspiring the next generation of plastic-free champions’ to promote awareness of the impacts of plastic litter on ecosys-tems. The students became citizen scientists using Open Litter Map, conducted experiments on familiar plastic products and analysed samples from natural environments. Niall also joined actor and producer Jeremy Irons in Skibbereen in September, to participate in a public screening of Irons’ documentary Trashed, an account of the world’s plastic pollution. Niall was on hand to provide scientific expertise regarding plastics use, waste and disposal during the audience Q&A.

Recognising that climate change is an issue that the younger generation are increasingly concerned about, as evi-denced by the climate strikes, the ERI were delighted to partner with the UCC student Environmental Society, EnviroSoc, in their hosting of a pub-lic conference on the theme of climate change in February 2018. Opened by ERI Director Professor Sarah Culloty, the programme included ERI speakers Professor Brian Ó Gallachóir (ERI, Ma-REI), Dr Debbie Chapman (UN GEMS Water CDC) and Dr Aine Ryall (the Centre for Law and the Environment) as well as panellists from sustainable initiatives such as Food Cloud and Open Litter Map.

EnviroSoc Conference makes sustainable choices clear

Highlighting the problem of plastic pollution

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Creativity through collaboration As the importance of collaboration between practitioners of the arts and the scientific community becomes increasingly recognised, researchers in the ERI have been engaging with local and national galleries in an attempt to diversify the audiences for our research outputs. In the Summer 2018, UCC’s Lewis Glucksman Gallery, in partnership with School of BEES, hosted a photographic exhibition entitled ‘The Fox Got You’ celebrating six common plants which are the origins of major medicinal drugs. The instal-lation was the work of Swiss artist Françoise Sergy. In October, an exhibi-tion celebrating the work of Ireland’s first female botanist Ellen Hutchins, was launched in the UCC Boole Library by the Head of Plant Science, Prof Astrid Wingler (ERI, School of BEES). Professor Andy Wheeler, Head of the School of BEES (also iCRAG, ERI), participated in the Life at the Edges Exhibition in the Trinity College Science Gallery in Dublin. The exhibition examined life in extreme environments, and humankind’s passion for ex-ploration, adventure and discovery.

Cobh’s Sirius Arts Centre played host to a science/arts collaborative proj-ect in the form of a series of public events on the theme of Sustainable Futures. Prof Jerry Murphy (MaREI, School of Engineering, ERI), ERI manager Dr Paul Bolger, Dr Ger Mullally (Department of Sociology, ERI) and Dr Eoin Flynn (School of Chemistry, ERI) gave public talks on the topic of sustainability with the backdrop of several Cork-based artists dis-playing work on the same theme. MaREI coordinated a student Ocean Devotion workshop for local school children also held in the Sirius gal-lery space. In addition, the Ocean Plastics Lab exhibited in front of the European Parliament in Brussels in April 2018, including images from the IMPACT2017 international microplastics photo contest which was facilitated through MaREI.

MaREI delivered its Ocean Devotion workshops to over 500 primary school students throughout the year as well as at in-formal settings such as sailing courses and to local girl guides and scouts. MaREI also welcomed Transition Year students from schools around Cork who were taking part in UCC’s Engineering Your Future TY Programme in May 2018, and a tidal energy animation was developed by MaREI through the TAOIDE project, which links to the Junior Cycle Science and Geography curricula and to the Primary SESS Geogra-phy curriculum.

How to be a cli-MATEIn lead up to the first of the school students 2018 climate ac-tion strikes, Carrigaline Tidy Towns Committee invited Pro-fessor John Sodeau (CRAC, School of Chemistry, ERI) to talk about global warming to local primary schools during March. 450 eleven and twelve year olds from three schools attended and asked numerous questions on the how, why, where and when of climate change. The message received was that this age group know a lot and care a lot about what is happening to our planet and they do not understand why the older gen-eration is not doing more.

Girls into Geoscience The inaugural Girls into Geoscience Ireland event took place in March at the School of BEES, coordinated by Dr Maria McNamara, (School of BEES, ERI) and Dr Fergus McAuliffe of SFI iCRAG Centre. Over 20 teenage girls visited BEES to learn about geosciences and the world of careers open to geo-science graduates today, through hands-on workshops, speed networking, and invited talks.

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Ireland’s Next Top Biofuel

Ireland’s National Engineers Week seeks to raise awareness of this career choice amongst secondary school students through online campaigns promoting the diversity of roles that engineers play in society. In 2018, Aoife Long, PhD student in the Biofuels and Bioenergy research group (MaREI, ERI, School of Engineering) produced a series of videos highlighting different biofuel sources used by environmental engineers. The widely circulated series of episodes (now available on YouTube) was filmed in the style of an X Factor-esque talent com-petition with each fuel source championing their advantages before a judging panel which included two BT Young Scientists.

Science without the jargon

Our researchers were involved in numerous national outreach activities in 2018, specifically designed to make science more accessible to the public by communicating concepts of societal importance without scientific terminology and jargon. Ashley Bennison (MaREI, ERI, School of BEES) was a finalist in the Science for All com-petition, Arno Fricke (ERI, School of Microbi-ology) highlighted the NEWTRIENTS project at The Pint of Science, and Dr Jean O’Dwyer (School of BEES, ERI) took to her soapbox in Galway in July to participate in the Science Soapbox public discourse event. The ERI also continued its collaboration with local commu-nity group, the Cork Social and Health Educa-tion Project’s Earth Aware group with two ERI researchers, Clare Watson and Dr Eoin Flynn, being invited to give public talks. In August, ERI researchers Arno Fricke (Microbiology, pictured on the left) and Professor John Sodeau (CRAC) were amongst those whose portraits were in-cluded in the UCC Instagram campaign aimed at highlighting the researchers behind the re-search and communicating complex ideas in a straightforward way.

UCC goes blue for UN World Water Day

In 2018, UN Environment GEMS/Water CDC partnered with UCC Green Campus, the Centre for Global Development and UCC Enviro-Soc to host a variety of events to raise awareness of UN World Water Day in March. The day’s activities, including biodiversity walks, inter-active booths and a public seminar, concluded with the Quad turn-ing blue. Commencing on World Water Day 2018, UN Environment GEMS/Water CDC and the UCC Centre for Global Development also hosted an interdisciplinary lecture series looking at water, nature, hu-manity, and the relationships between them. With speakers from the fields of archaeology, theatre studies and philosophy, law and ecology amongst others, this series proved to have wide public appeal.

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SECTION 6 – Awards

Uisce Beatha (Water of Life). Patrick Cross, Winner of 2018 UN Clean Water Here Global Photography Exhibition.

UCC wins top sustainability award

UCC’s Green Campus were responsible for UCC becoming the first university outside of the USA to be awarded a gold star rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) in ‘Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System’ (STARS) for excellence in sustainability in 2018. An additional accolade credited to the hard work of the Green Campus was the securing of the 5th International Workshop on UI GreenMetric World University Rankings (IWGM 2019) to be held UCC in April 2019.

Fulbright scholarships for ERI

Dr Paul Bolger (ERI) and Dr Michelle Cronin (MaREI) were awarded Fulbright scholarships in 2017. Paul’s Fulbright scholarship will investigate how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary re-search is being utilised at sustainability research institutes in the US, while Michelle will undertake research into the feeding ecology of seals and their interactions with fisheries at the Costa Lab at the University of California Santa Cruz.

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ERI conference award winners

Congratulations to Environ 2018 award winners and ERI PhD students Gary Kett and Darren Heenan-Daly (School of BEES, ERI) and Mehael Fennelly (CRAC, College of Medicine and Health, ERI) awardee at the Irish Society of Clinical Microbiologists (ISCM) Conference. Congratula-tions also to Dr Richen Lin (MaREI, ERI) who won the Energy in Agriculture Poster Competition in August 2018 and to Dr Karthik Rajendran (MaREI, ERI) who was one of the runners up in the Research Poster Competition.

Dr Elena Gomez Alvarez selected for Aurora Leadership Programme

Dr Elena Gomez Alvarez, postdoctoral researcher in CRAC & the ERI, was one of a number of UCC research-ers selected for the prestigious Aurora Leadership Pro-gramme. Originally from Valencia, Spain, Elena secured a prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship to contin-ue her research at UCC.

Fáilte Ireland National Conference Ambassador Awards

Three ERI PIs were recipients of the Fáilte Ireland National Conference Ambassador Awards in November 2018, Pro-fessor Tony Lewis (MaREI, ERI), Dr Eric Moore (School of Chemistry, Tyndall National Institute, ERI) and Dr John Morrissey (School of Microbiology, ERI).

Dr Áine Ryall awarded Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship

Dr Áine Ryall, Co-Director of UCC’s Centre for Law and the Environment, was awarded a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence in June for her research project Promoting Com-pliance with Climate Obligations: the Impact of Climate Law & Litigation in Ireland.

Patrick Cross wins UN photography competition

Patrick Cross (UN Environment GEMS/Water CDC, ERI) was a winner in the 2018 UN Clean Water Here Global Photography Exhibition. Patrick’s winning photo (pictured above), taken at Mullinahassig Waterfall symbolises na-ture-based solutions that have the potential to solve many of our water challenges

Dr Rosanna Henriques awarded the Paddy O’Keeffe Senior Lectureship in Plant Genetics

Dr Rosanna Henriques (School of BEES, ERI) is the inaugu-ral awardee of the The Paddy O’Keeffe Senior Lectureship in Plant Genetics in 2018. The lectureship will lead to the implementation of new strategies for grassland research at UCC.

Athena Swan Bronze Award

Congratulations to ERI colleagues in the Schools of Chem-istry and BEES who both received an Athena Swan Bronze Award in 2018. This award recognises the Schools ongoing commitment to promoting good employment practices for women in science in higher education.

Professor Thia Hennessy appointed to Teagasc Authority

Professor Thia Hennessy, Dean of Cork University Busi-ness School (CUBS) was appointed to the Teagasc Author-ity by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD in 2018. Thia is also Professor and Chair of Agri-Food Economics in UCC.

ERI PIs appointed to RIA Climate Change Committee

Dr Paul Bolger, ERI Manager, and Dr Áine Ryall, Co-Di-rector of the Centre for Law and the Environment, were appointed to the Royal Irish Academy’s Committee for Climate Change and Environmental Sciences in 2018.

Professor Colm O’Dwyer is named UCC Researcher of the Year 2018

Professor Colm O’Dwyer (School of Chemistry, ERI) was named the 2018 UCC Researcher of the Year. The UCC Research Awards recognise and celebrate those UCC re-searchers who are making exceptional and influential research contributions, pushing boundaries, enhancing knowledge, and raising the national and international re-search profile of the University.

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The ERI has collaborative partnerships with over 500 national and international universities and companies, which result in numerous publications annually. The top 15 countries with which we produced the most publications in 2018 are highlighted here.

ERI around the world in 2018

Top 15 countries

Ireland 263

United Kingdom 81

United States 49

Germany 25

Spain 23

Netherlands 21

France 20

Italy 20

China 19

Australia 13

India 12

Sweden 12

Canada 9

Norway 9

Portugal 9

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Arneill Gavin PhD (Science) Professor John Quinn, Dr Mark JessopBlake Sean Timothy M Eng C (Energy Engineering) Dr Dominic O’SullivanCasey Éadaoin MSc Professor Colm O’DwyerCopage Joshua Elliot MSc Dr Patrick A. MeereCrowley Diarmuid Master of Research Dr Eileen O’RourkeDaly Jack William Master of Research Dr Barbara Doyle Prestwich, Dr Eoin LetticeDube William PhD (Science) Dr Albert A. RuthFairey Brenton PhD (Science) Dr Patrick A. Meere, Dr Kieran MulchroneFernandez-Bellon Dario PhD (Science) Professor John O’Halloran, Professor John QuinnFlannery Brian Patrick PhD (Engineering) Professor Anthony W. LewisGeraghty Amy PhD (Science) Dr Rob McAllenGethins Loughlin Myles MSc Dr John Morrissey, Professor Paul RossGleeson Denis Peter DBA (Business Economics) Dr Eleanor DoyleGuneratnam Amita PhD (Engineering) Professor Jeremiah D. G. Murphy, Dr Vikram PakrashiHaberlin Michael Damien PhD (Science) Dr Rob McAllenHelen Lisa PhD (Science) Dr Eric MooreHimanshu Himanshu PhD (Engineering) Professor Jeremiah D. G. Murphy Le Lievre Celia PhD (Law) Professor Owen McIntyre and Dr Anne Marie O’HaganKuanyshev Nurzhan PhD (Science) Dr John MorrisseyMengist Molla Fentie PhD (Science) Professor Peter W. JonesMoreira Ferreira David Jose PhD (Science) Dr John MorrisseyMulholland Eamon PhD (Engineering) Professor Brian Ó GallachóirMurphy Colm Patrick M Eng Sc (Elec.) Dr Emanuel PopoviciMurphy Paul Kenneth MSc Professor Andrew WheelerNolan Marie Therese PhD (Science) Dr Gerard P. McGlackenO’Connell Rory Dominic MSc (Commerce) Dr Brendan Richardson, Dr Claire O’NeillO’Donovan Peter PhD (Engineering) Dr Dominic O’SullivanO’Keefe Jane PhD (Science) Dr Valerie Cummins, Professor Don Lyons, Professor Robert DevoyO’Kelly Lynch Patrick David M Eng Sc (Civil) Dr Paul LeahyO’Muimhneachain Eoin PhD (Science) Dr Gerard P. McGlackenO’Regan Conor Brendan PhD (Science) Professor Justin HolmesO’Reilly Amy Jane PhD (Science) Professor Sarah Culloty, Dr Sharon LynchO’Shea Richard Seen Kong PhD (Engineering) Professor Jeremiah D. G. Murphy, Professor Brian Ó GallachóirO’Shea William PhD (Science) Professor John Quinn, Professor John O’HalloranO’Sullivan Adrian Cornelius Michael PhD (Engineering) Dr Gordon Lightbody, Professor Anthony W. LewisParker Chloe Rowena PhD (Science) Dr Patrick MeerePrendergast Aisling Mary PhD (Science) Dr Gerard P. McGlackenRamos Andresa Viana PhD (Engineering) Professor Jorge Oliveira, Dr Maria D Sousa GallagherRyan Enright Sarah PhD (Law) Professor Owen McIntyre and Dr Anne Marie O’HaganScanlon Shauna PhD (Engineering Science) Dr Eric MooreShanley Matthew PhD (Engineering) Dr James Murphy, Professor Anthony W. LewisShao Han PhD (Science) Dr Colm O’Dwyer, Dr Kafil RazeebSousa Ana Rita M Eng Sc (Engineering) Dr Maria De Sousa GallagherTank Ashutosh M Eng Sc (Engineering) Professor Jorge Oliveira, Dr Maria D Sousa GallagherTunwal Mohit PhD (Science) Dr Kieran Mulchrone, Dr Patrick A. MeereVarela Javier Alberto PhD (Science) Dr John MorrisseyVo Thi Quynh Truc PhD (Engineering) Professor Jeremiah D. G. MurphyWhittaker Sean PhD (Law) Dr Aine Ryall

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SECTION 8 – ERI 2018 Peer-reviewed Publications

1. Abanades, J., Flor-Blanco, G., Flor, G. and Iglesias, G. (2018) Dual wave farms for energy production and coastal protection, Ocean and Coastal Management, 160, 18-29.

2. Alexander, K.A., Janssen, R. and O’Higgins, T.G. (2018) Siting offshore energy arrays: A case study in interactive marine planning, In: K.L. Yates and C.J.A. Bradshaw (Editors), Offshore Energy and Marine Spatial Planning, Routledge, pp, 274-283.

3. Almeida, E. L., Margassery, L. M., Kennedy, J. and Dobson, A. D. W. (2018) Draft genome sequence of the antimycin-producing bacterium Streptomyces sp. strain SM8, isolated from the marine sponge Haliclona simulans, Genome Announcements, 6, 4.

4. Almeida, E. L., Margassery, L. M., O’Leary, N. and Dobson, A. D. W. (2018) Draft genome sequence of Pseudomonas putida CA-3, a bacterium capable of styrene degradation and medium-chain- length polyhydroxyalkanoate synthesis, Genome Announcements, 6, 4, e01534-17.

5. Andrade, L., O’Dwyer, J., O’Neill, E. and Hynds, P. (2018) Surface water flooding, groundwater contamination, and enteric disease in developed countries: A scoping review of connections and consequences, Environmental Pollution, 236, 540-549.

6. Archie, K. M., Chapman, R. and Flood, S. (2018) Climate change response in New Zealand communities: Local scale adaptation and mitigation planning, Environmental Development, 28, 19-31.

7. Astariz, S., Vazquez, A., Sánchez, M., Carballo, R. and Iglesias, G. (2018) Co-located wave-wind farms for improved O&M efficiency, Ocean and Coastal Management, 163, 66-71.

8. Axon, S., Morrissey, J., Aiesha, R., Hillman, J., Revez, A., Lennon, B., Salel, M., Dunphy, N. and Boo, E. (2018) The human factor: Classification of European community-based behaviour change initiatives, Journal of Cleaner Production, 182, 567-586.

9. Bailey-Serres, J., Pierik, R., Ruban, A. and Wingler, A. (2018) The dynamic plant: Capture, transformation, and management of energy, Plant Physiology, 176, 2, 961-966.

10. Banks, C.J., Heaven, S., Zhang, Y., Baier, U. (2018). Food waste digestion: Anaerobic Digestion of Food Waste for a Circular Economy. Murphy, J.D. (Ed.) IEA Bioenergy Task 37, 2018: 12

11. Banta, R. A., Collins, T. W., Curley, R. A., Young, P. W., Holmes, J. D. and Flynn, E. J. (2018) Nanopatterned protein-polysaccharide thin films by humidity regulated phase separation, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 532, 171-181.

12. Barnes P.W., Jansen M.A.K., Jenkins G.I., Vandenbussche F., Brelsford C.C., Banas A.K., Bilger W., Castagna A., Festi D., Gaberščik A., Germ M., Golob A., Hauser M.-T., Llorens L., Martinez-Abaigar J., Morales L.O., Neugart S., Pieristè M., Rai N., Ryan L., Santin M., Seddon A.W.R., Stelzner J., Tavridou E., Łabuz J. and Robson T.M. (2018) The importance and direction of current and future plant-UV research, UV4Plants Bulletin, 2018, 2, 19-32.

13. Basu Roy, S., & Ghosh Dastidar, S. (2018) Why do men rape? Understanding the determinants of rapes in India, Third World Quarterly, 39,8, 1435-1457.

14. Baumann, L., Rajkumar, A. S., Morrissey, J. P., Boles, E. and Oreb, M. (2018) A yeast-based biosensor for screening of short- and medium-chain fatty acid production, ACS Synthetic Biology, 7, 11, 2640-2646.

15. Bennison, A., Bearhop, S., Bodey, T. W., Votier, S. C., Grecian, W. J., Wakefield, E. D., Hamer, K.C. and Jessopp, M. (2018) Search and foraging behaviors from movement data: A comparison of methods, Ecology and Evolution, 8, 1, 13-24.

16. Besset, T., McGlacken, G. and Schnürch, M. (2018) European research in focus: C–H activation in organic synthesis (CHAOS), European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018, 44, 6032-6033.

17. Bookelaar, B. E., O’Reilly, A. J., Lynch, S. A. and Culloty, S. C. (2018) Role of the intertidal predatory shore crab Carcinus maenas in transmission dynamics of ostreid herpesvirus-1 microvariant, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 130, 3, 221-233.

18. Bradley, C., Bowes, M.J.b, Brils, J., Friedrich, J., Gault, J., Groom, S., Hein, T., Heininger, P., Michalopoulos, P., Panin, N., Schultz, M., Stanica, A., Andrei, I., Tyler, A., Umgiesser, G. (2018) Advancing integrated research on European river–sea systems: The DANUBIUS-RI project, International Journal of Water Resources Development, 34, 6, 888-899.

19. Brinkerink, M. and Shivakumar, A. (2018) System dynamics within typical days of a high variable 2030 European power system, Energy Strategy Reviews, 22, 94-105.

20. Brinkerink, M., Deane, P., Collins, ., Ó. Gallachóir, B. (2018) Developing a global interconnected power system model, Global Energy Interconnection, 1, 3, 330-343.

21. Bruton, K., O’Donovan, P., McGregor, A. and O’Sullivan, D. D. T. J. (2018) Design and development of a software tool to assist ISO 50001 implementation in the manufacturing sector, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 232, 10, 1741-1752.

22. Buckley, D. N., O’Dwyer, C., Quill, N. and Lynch, R. P. (2018) Electrochemical Energy Storage, In: R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison (Editors), Energy Storage Options and Their Environmental Impact, Royal Society of Chemistry, Ch. 3, pp, 115-149.

23. Buckley, T., Watson, P., Cahill, P., Jaksic, V. and Pakrashi, V. (2018) Mitigating the structural vibrations of wind turbines using tuned liquid column damper considering soil-structure interaction, Renewable Energy, 120, 322-341.

24. Buzid A., Luong J.H.T., Reen F.J., O’Gara F., Glennon J.D., McGlacken G.P. (2018) Rapid electrochemical detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa signaling molecules by boron-doped diamond electrode. In: L. Leoni and G. Rampioni (Editors) Quorum Sensing, Methods in Molecular Biology, 1673, Humana Press, New York, NY, pp, 107-116.

25. Buzid, A., McGlacken, G. P., Glennon, J. D. and Luong, J. H. T. (2018) Electrochemical sensing of biotin using nafion-modified boron-doped diamond electrode, ACS Omega, 3, 7, 7776-7782.

26. Buzid, A., Reen, F. J., O’Gara, F., McGlacken, G. P., Glennon, J. D. and Luong, J. H. T. (2018) Simultaneous chemosensing of tryptophan and the bacterial signal molecule indole by boron doped diamond electrode, Electrochimica Acta, 282, 845-852.

27. Cano, R., Mackey, K. and McGlacken, G. P. (2018) Recent advances in manganese-catalysed C-H activation: Scope and mechanism, Catalysis Science and Technology, 8, 5, 1251-1266.

28. Cao, X., Hogan, A. and Moore, E. (2018) Rapid separation of organophosphate pesticides using micellar electrokinetic chromatography and short-end injection, Journal of Forensic Sciences.

29. Caravaggi, A. Plowman, A., Wright, D. J. and Bishop, C. M. (2018) The composition of captive ruffed lemur (Varecia spp.) diets in UK zoological collections, with reference to the problems of obesity and iron storage disease, Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research, 6, 2, 41-49.

30. Caravaggi, A., Gatta, M., Vallely, M., Hogg, K., Freeman, M., Fadaei, E., Dick, J.T.A., Montgomery, W.I., Reid, N. and Tosh, D.G. (2018) Seasonal and predator-prey effects on circadian activity of free-ranging mammals revealed by camera traps, PeerJ, 6:e5827.

31. Cermeño, M., O’Brien, N. and FitzGerald, R. J. (2018) Angiotensin converting enzyme and dipeptidyl peptidase-IV inhibitory activities of transglutaminase treated sodium caseinate hydrolysates, International Dairy Journal, 78, 85-91.

32. Chan Gutiérrez, E., Wall, D. M., O’Shea, R., Novelo, R. M., Gómez, M. M. and Murphy, J. D. (2018) An economic and carbon analysis of biomethane production from food waste to be used as a transport fuel in Mexico, Journal of Cleaner Production, 196, 852-862.

33. Chandran, S., Mahon, S., Ruth, A. A., Braddell, J. and Gutiérrez, M. D. (2018) Cavity-enhanced absorption detection of H2S in the near-infrared using a gain-switched frequency comb laser, Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 124, 4.

34. Chapman, D., and Warner, S. Progress on Ambient Water Quality – Piloting the monitoring methodology and initial findings for SDG indicator 6.3.2. UN Environment on behalf of UN-Water.

35. Chapman, D., and Warner, S. SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation. UN-Water.

36. Chen, X., O’Halloran, J. and Jansen, M. A. K. (2018) Orthophosphate modulates the phytotoxicity of nano-ZnO to Lemna minor (L.), Environmental Technology (United Kingdom), 1-9.

37. Chen, X., O’Halloran, J. and Jansen, M. A. K. (2018) Time matters: The toxicity of zinc oxide nanoparticles to Lemna minor L. increases with exposure time, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 229, 3.

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38. Choudhary, A., Naughton, L. M., Dobson, A. D. W. and Rai, D. K. (2018) High-performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation mass spectrometric characterisation of metabolites produced by Pseudovibrio sp. W64, a marine sponge derived bacterium isolated from Irish waters, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 32, 19, 1737-1745.

39. Collins, G., Davitt, F., O’Dwyer, C. and Holmes, J. D. (2018) Comparing Thermal and Chemical Removal of Nanoparticle Stabilizing Ligands - Effect on Catalytic Activity and Stability, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 1, 7129–7138.

40. Collins, S., Deane, P., Ó Gallachóir, B., Pfenninger, S. and Staffell, I. (2018) Impacts of Inter-annual Wind and Solar Variations on the European Power System, Joule, 2, 10, 2076-2090.

41. Collins, S., Saygin, D., Deane, J. P., Miketa, A., Gutierrez, L., Ó Gallachóir, B. and Gielen, D. (2018) Planning the European power sector transformation: The REmap modelling framework and its insights, Energy Strategy Reviews, 22, 147-165.

42. Cordeiro Ortigara, A.R. et al. (2018) SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation, UN Water ISBN 978-92-1-101370-2.

43. Coughlan, M., Fleischer, M., Wheeler, A. J., Hepp, D. A., Hebbeln, D. and Mörz, T. (2018) A revised stratigraphical framework for the quaternary deposits of the German North Sea sector: A geological-geotechnical approach, Boreas, 47, 1, 80-105.

44. Coughlan, N. E., Cuthbert, R. N., Kelly, T. C. and Jansen, M. A. K. (2018) Parched plants: Survival and viability of invasive aquatic macrophytes following exposure to various desiccation regimes, Aquatic Botany, 150, 9-15.

45. Critchley, E. J., Grecian, W. J., Kane, A., Jessopp, M. J. and Quinn, J. L. (2018) Marine protected areas show low overlap with projected distributions of seabird populations in Britain and Ireland, Biological Conservation, 224, 309-317.

46. Crowley, D., O’Callaghan, Y. and O’Brien, N. M. (2018) The immunomodulatory potential of cereal grains, Current Nutrition and Food Science, 14, 3, 183-196.

47. Crowley, S. V., Burlot, E., Silva, J. V. C., McCarthy, N. A., Wijayanti, H. B., Fenelon, M. A., Kelly, M.A. and O’Mahony, J. A. (2018) Rehydration behaviour of spray-dried micellar casein concentrates produced using microfiltration of skim milk at cold or warm temperatures, International Dairy Journal, 81, 72-79.

48. Cruz, M. J., Machete, M., Menezes, G., Rogan, E. and Silva, M. A. (2018) Estimating common dolphin bycatch in the pole-and-line tuna fishery in the Azores, PeerJ, 2018, 2.

49. Cubie, D. (2018) Human Rights, Environmental Displacement and Migration, In: R. McLeman and F. Gemenne (Editors), Routledge Handbook of Environmental Displacement and Migration, Routledge, London, pp, 329-341.

50. Curtin, J., McInerney, C. and Johannsdottir, L. (2018) How can financial incentives promote local ownership of onshore wind and solar projects? case study evidence from Germany, Denmark, the UK and Ontario, Local Economy, 33, 1, 40-62.

51. Cusack, P. B., Healy, M. G., Ryan, P. C., Burke, I. T., O’Donoghue, L. M. T., Ujaczki, É. and Courtney, R. (2018) Enhancement of bauxite residue as a low-cost adsorbent for phosphorus in aqueous solution, using seawater and gypsum treatments, Journal of Cleaner Production, 179, 217-224.

52. Dalton, G. (2018) Ocean Energy – Wave and Tide, In: K. Johnson, G. Dalton and I. Masters (Editors), Building Industries at Sea: ‘Blue Growth’ and the New Maritime Economy, River Publishers, Gistrup, Denmark, pp, 137-184.

53. Dalton, G., Johnson, K. and Masters, I. (2018) Multi Use Platforms (MUPs) and Multi Use of Space (MUS), In: K. Johnson, G. Dalton and I. Masters (Editors), Building Industries at Sea: ‘Blue Growth’ and the New Maritime Economy, River Publishers, Gistrup, Denmark, pp, 431-457.

54. Davenport, J., Phillips, N. D., Cotter, E., Eagling, L. E. and Houghton, J. D. R. (2018) The locomotor system of the ocean sunfish Mola mola (L.): Role of gelatinous exoskeleton, horizontal septum, muscles and tendons, Journal of Anatomy, 233, 3, 347-357.

55. Davidson, G. L., Cooke, A. C., Johnson, C. N. and Quinn, J. L. (2018) The gut microbiome as a driver of individual variation in cognition and functional behaviour, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373, 1756.

56. Davidson, G. L., Reichert, M. S., Crane, J. M. S., O’Shea, W. and Quinn, J. L. (2018) Repeatable aversion across threat types is linked with life-history traits but is dependent on how aversion is measured, Royal Society Open Science, 5, 2.

57. Deane, J. P. and Pye, S. (2018) Europe’s ambition for biofuels in aviation - A strategic review of challenges and opportunities, Energy Strategy Reviews, 20, 1-5.

58. delBarco-Trillo, J. (2018) Shyer and larger bird species show more reduced fear of humans when living in urban environments, Biology Letters, 14, 4.

59. delBarco-Trillo, J., Tourmente, M., Varea-Sánchez, M. and Roldan, E. R. S. (2018) Is male reproductive senescence minimized in Mus species with high levels of sperm competition? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 123, 2, 463-470.

60. Deng, S. and Morrison, A. P. (2018) Real-time dark count compensation and temperature monitoring using dual SPADs on the same chip, Electronics Letters, 54, 10, 642-643.

61. Desmond, C. J., Watson, S., Montavon, C. and Murphy, J. (2018) Modelling uncertainty in t-RANS simulations of thermally stratified forest canopy flows for wind energy studies, Energies, 11, 7.

62. Devaney, J. L., Whelan, P. M. and Jansen, M. A. K. (2018) Conspecific negative density dependence in a long-lived conifer, yew Taxus baccata L., European Journal of Forest Research, 137, 1, 69-78.

63. Di Clemente, J., Christiansen, F., Pirotta, E., Steckler, D., Wahlberg, M. and Pearson, H.C. (2018) Effects of whale watching on the activity budgets of humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781), on a feeding ground, Aquatic Conserv: Mar Freshw Ecosyst. 28, 810– 820.

64. Dillon, E. J., Hennessy, T., Howley, P., Cullinan, J., Heanue, K. and Cawley, A. (2018) Routine inertia and reactionary response in animal health best practice, Agriculture and Human Values, 35, 1, 207-221.

65. Ding, L., Chan Gutierrez, E., Cheng, J., Xia, A., O’Shea, R., Guneratnam, A. J. and Murphy, J. D. (2018) Assessment of continuous fermentative hydrogen and methane co-production using macro- and micro-algae with increasing organic loading rate, Energy, 151, 760-770.

66. Doherty, J., Biswas, S., Saladukha, D., Ramasse, Q., Bhattacharya, T. S., Singha, A., Ochalskic, T.J. and Holmes, J. D. (2018) Influence of growth kinetics on sn incorporation in direct band gap Ge1-xSnx nanowires, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 6, 32, 8738-8750.

67. Donkor, E., Onakuse, S., Bogue, J. and de los Rios Carmenado, I. (2018) Promoting value addition among farmers in the cassava food value chain in Nigeria, British Food Journal, 120, 9, 2047-2065.

68. Donkor, E., Onakuse, S., Bogue, J. and De Los Rios-Carmenado, I. (2018) Determinants of farmer participation in direct marketing channels: A case study for cassava in the Oyo state of Nigeria, Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 16, 2.

69. Donnelly, A., Liu, L., Zhang, X. and Wingler, A. (2018) Autumn leaf phenology: Discrepancies between in situ observations and satellite data at urban and rural sites, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 39, 22, 8129-8150.

70. Doonan, F., Taylor, L., Branduardi, P. and Morrissey, J. P. (2018) Innovative training networks: Overview of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD training model, FEMS Microbiology Letters, 365, 19.

71. Drapala, K. P., Murphy, K. M., Ho, Q. T., Crowley, S. V., Mulcahy, S., McCarthy, N. A. and O’Mahony, J. A. (2018) Short communication: Multi-component interactions causing solidification during industrial-scale manufacture of pre-crystallized acid whey powders, Journal of Dairy Science, 101, 12, 10743-10749.

72. Droog, E., Foley, C., Healy, O., Buckley, C., Boyce, M., McHugh, S. and Browne, J. P. (2018) Perspectives on the underlying drivers of urgent and emergency care reconfiguration in Ireland, International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 33, 2, 364-379.

73. Duffy, R., Ricchio, A., Murphy, R., Maxwell, G., Murphy, R., Piaszenski, G., Petkov, N., Hydes, M., O’Connell, D., Lyons, C., Kennedy, N., Sheehan, B., Schmidt, M., Crupi, F., Holmes, J.D., Hurley, P.K., Connolly, J., Hatem, C. and Long, B. (2018) Diagnosis of phosphorus monolayer doping in silicon based on nanowire electrical characterisation, Journal of Applied Physics, 123, 125701.

74. Duffy, R., Thomas, K., Galluccio, E., Mirabelli, G., Sultan, M., Kennedy, N., Petkov, N., Maxwell, G., Hydes, A., O’Connell, D., Lyons, C., Sheehan, B., Schmidt, M., Holmes, J.D., Hurley, P.K., Pelucchi, E., Connolly, J., Hatem, C, and Long, B. (2018) AsH 3 gas-phase ex situ doping 3D silicon structures, Journal of Applied Physics, 124, 045703.

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75. Eakins, J. (2018) An analysis of the determinants of sports participation and time spent in different sporting contexts, Managing Sport and Leisure, 23,3, 157-173.

76. Edesess, A. J., Kelliher, D. and Borthwick, A. G. L. (2018) Offshore monopile in the southern north sea: Part II, simulated hydrodynamics and loading, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Maritime Engineering, 171, 2, 70-85.

77. Egerton, S., Culloty, S., Whooley, J., Stanton, C. and Ross, R. P. (2018) Characterization of protein hydrolysates from blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) and their application in beverage fortification, Food Chemistry, 245, 698-706.

78. Egerton, S., Culloty, S., Whooley, J., Stanton, C. and Ross, R. P. (2018) The gut microbiota of marine fish, Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, 873.

79. Ejsmond, M. J., Phillips, K. P., Babik, W. and Radwan, J. (2018) The role of MHC supertypes in promoting trans-species polymorphism remains an open question, Nature Communications, 9, 4362.

80. Estève, R. S., Baisnée, D., Guinot, B., Petit, J. -., Sodeau, J., O’Connor, D., Besancenot, J.-P., Thibaudon, M. and Gros, V. (2018) Temporal variability and geographical origins of airborne pollen grains concentrations from 2015 to 2018 at Saclay, France, Remote Sensing, 10, 12.

81. Fagerström, A., Al Seadi, T., Rasi, S., Briseid, T, (2018). The role of Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas in the Circular Economy. Murphy, J.D. (Ed.) IEA Bioenergy Task 37, 2018: 8

82. Fairey, B. J., Kerrison, A., Meere, P. A., Mulchrone, K. F., Hofmann, M., Gärtner, A., Sonntag, B.-L., Linnemann, U., Kuiper, C.F., Ennis, M., Mark, C., Cogné, N. and Chew, D. (2018) The provenance of the Devonian Old Red Sandstone of the Dingle Peninsula, SW Ireland; the earliest record of Laurentian and peri-Gondwanan sediment mixing in Ireland, Journal of the Geological Society, 175, 3, 411-424.

83. Farooqui, A., Bose, A., Ferrero, D., Llorca, J. and Santarelli, M. (2018) Techno-economic and exergetic assessment of an oxy-fuel power plant fueled by syngas produced by chemical looping CO2 and H2O dissociation, Journal of CO2 Utilization, 27, 500-517.

84. Feeney, P., Rodríguez, S. F., Molina, R., McGillicuddy, E., Hellebust, S., Quirke, M., Daly, S., O’Connor, D. and Sodeau, J. (2018) A comparison of on-line and off-line bioaerosol measurements at a biowaste site, Waste Management, 76, 323-338.

85. Felice, V. D., O’gorman, D. M., O’brien, N. M. and Hyland, N. P. (2018) Bioaccessibility and bioavailability of a marine-derived multimineral, aquamin-magnesium, Nutrients, 10, 7, 912.

86. Fentimen, R., Rüggeberg, A., Lim, A., Kateb, A. E., Foubert, A., Wheeler, A. J. and Spezzaferri, S. (2018) Benthic foraminifera in a deep-sea high-energy environment: The Moira Mounds (Porcupine Seabight, SW of Ireland), Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 111, 3, 533-544.

87. Fernández-Bellon, D., Wilson, M. W., Irwin, S. and O’Halloran, J. (2018) Effects of development of wind energy and associated changes in land use on bird densities in upland areas, Conservation Biology.

88. Fernández-Bellon, D., Wilson, M. W., Irwin, S., Kelly, T. C., O’Mahony, B. and O’Halloran, J. (2018) Video evidence of siblicide and cannibalism, movement of nestlings by adults, and interactions with predators in nesting hen harriers, Journal of Raptor Research, 52, 3, 393-399.

89. Fernández-Rodríguez, S., Tormo-Molina, R., Lemonis, N., Clot, B., O’Connor, D. J. and Sodeau, J. R. (2018) Comparison of fungal spores concentrations measured with wideband integrated bioaerosol sensor and hirst methodology, Atmospheric Environment, 175, 1-14.

90. Finnegan, W., Clifford, E., Goggins, J., O’Leary, N., Dobson, A., Rowan, N., Xiao, L., Miao, S., Fitzhenry, K., Leonard, P., Tarpey, E., Gil-Pulido, B., Gao, F. and Zhan, X. (2018) DairyWater: Striving for sustainability within the dairy processing industry in the Republic of Ireland, Journal of Dairy Research, 85, 3, 366-374.

91. Firth, J. A., Cole, E. F., Ioannou, C. C., Quinn, J. L., Aplin, L. M., Culina, A., McMahon, K. and Sheldon, B. C. (2018) Personality shapes pair bonding in a wild bird social system, Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2, 11, 1696-1699.

92. Fitzgerald, S., Gilgan, L., McCarthy, M., Perry, I. J. and Geaney, F. (2018) An evaluation and exploration of Irish food-service businesses’ uptake of and attitudes towards a voluntary government-led menu energy (calorie) labelling initiative, Public Health Nutrition, 21, 17, 3178-3191.

93. Flaherty, S.-J., McCarthy, M., Collins, A. and McAuliffe, F. (2018) Can existing mobile apps support healthier food purchasing behaviour? Content analysis of nutrition content, behaviour change theory and user quality integration, Public Health Nutrition, 21, 2, 288-298.

94. Flood, S., Cradock-Henry, N. A., Blackett, P. and Edwards, P. (2018) Adaptive and interactive climate futures: Systematic review of ‘serious games’ for engagement and decision-making, Environmental Research Letters, 13, 6, 063005.

95. Gaffney, F., Deane, J. P., Collins, S. and Ó Gallachóir, B. P. (2018) Consumption-based approach to RES-E quantification: Insights from a pan-European case study, Energy Policy, 112, 291-300.

96. Gallagher, C. V., Bruton, K., Leahy, K. and O’Sullivan, D. T. J. (2018) The suitability of machine learning to minimise uncertainty in the measurement and verification of energy savings, Energy and Buildings, 158, 647-655.

97. Gallagher, C. V., Leahy, K., O’Donovan, P., Bruton, K. and O’Sullivan, D. T. J. (2018) Development and application of a machine learning supported methodology for measurement and verification (M&V) 2.0, Energy and Buildings, 167, 8-22.

98. Gangnaik, A. S., Ghoshal, T., Georgiev, Y. M., Morris, M. A. and Holmes, J. D. (2018) Fabrication of si and ge nanoarrays through graphoepitaxial directed hardmask block copolymer self-assembly, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 531, 533-543.

99. García-Tejero, S., Spence, J. R., O’Halloran, J., Bourassa, S. and Oxbrough, A. (2018) Natural succession and clearcutting as drivers of environmental heterogeneity and beta diversity in North American boreal forests, PloS One, 13, 11, e0206931.

100. Ghoshal, T., Holmes, J. D. and Morris, M. A. (2018) Development of ordered, porous (sub-25 nm dimensions) surface membrane structures using a block copolymer approach, Scientific Reports, 8, 1, 7252.

101. Gilbey, J., Coughlan, J., Wennevik, V., Prodöhl, P., Stevens, J. R., Garcia De Leaniz, C., Ensing, D., Cauwelier, E., Cherbonnel, C., Consuegra, S., Coulson, M.W., Cross, T.F., Crozier, W., Dillane, E., Ellis, J.S., García-Vázquez, E., Griffiths, A.M., Gudjonsson, S., Hindar, K., Karlsson, S., Knox, D., Machado-Schiaffino, G., Meldrup, D., Nielsen, E.E., Ólafsson, K., Primmer, C.R., Prusov, S., Stradmeyer, L., Vähä, J.-P., Veselov, A.J., Webster, L.M.I., McGinnity, P. and Verspoor, E. (2018) A microsatellite baseline for genetic stock identification of European Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.), ICES Journal of Marine Science, 75, 2, 662-674.

102. Gil-Pulido, B., Tarpey, E., Almeida, E. L., Finnegan, W., Zhan, X., Dobson, A. D. W. and O’Leary, N. (2018) Evaluation of dairy processing wastewater biotreatment in an IASBR system: Aeration rate impacts on performance and microbial ecology, Biotechnology Reports, 19, e00263.

103. Gil-Pulido, B., Tarpey, E., Finnegan, W., Zhan, X., Dobson, A. D. W. and O’Leary, N. (2018) Dominance of the genus Polaromonas in the microbial ecology of an intermittently aerated sequencing batch reactor (IASBR) treating dairy processing wastewater under varying aeration rates, Journal of Dairy Research, 85, 3, 388-390.

104. Gity, F., Ansari, L., König, C., Verni, G. A., Holmes, J. D., Long, B., Lanius, M., Schüffelgen, P., Mussler, G., Grützmacher, D. and Greer, J. C. (2018) Metal-semimetal Schottky diode relying on quantum confinement, Microelectronic Engineering, 195, 21-25.

105. Godsmark, C.N., Tipton, M.J., Dennis, M.R. and House, J.R. (2018) Moisture vapour permeable gloves extend thermal endurance and safe work time more than other similarly permeable chemical-biological ancillary protective items, Ergonomics, 61, 12, 1635-1645.

106. Greaves, D. and Iglesias, G. (2018) Wave and tidal energy, Wiley, UK.

107. Green, S., Cawkwell, F. and Dwyer, E. (2018) A time-domain NDVI anomaly service for intensively managed grassland agriculture, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 11, 282-290.

108. Green, S., Cawkwell, F. and Dwyer, E. (2018) How current environmental and weather conditions affect time critical decision making on Irish dairy farms, International Journal of Agricultural Management, 7, 1, 50-58.

109. Haasz, T., Gómez Vilchez, J.J., Kunze, R., Deane, P., Fraboulet, D., Fahl, U. and Mulholland, E.* (2018) Perspectives on decarbonizing the transport sector in the EU-28, Energy Strategy Reviews, 20, 2018, 124-132.

110. Hanley, C., Frangopol, D. M., Kelliher, D. and Pakrashi, V. (2018) Reliability index and parameter importance for bridge traffic loading definition changes, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Bridge Engineering, 171, 1, 13-24.

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111. Hanley, E. S., Deane, J. P. and Gallachóir, B. P. Ó. (2018) The role of hydrogen in low carbon energy futures–A review of existing perspectives, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 82, 3027-3045.

112. Hanrahan, L., McHugh, N., Hennessy, T., Moran, B., Kearney, R., Wallace, M. and Shalloo, L. (2018) Factors associated with profitability in pasture-based systems of milk production, Journal of Dairy Science, 101, 6, 5474-5485.

113. Hartley, B. L., Pahl, S., Veiga, J., Vlachogianni, T., Vasconcelos, L., Maes, T., Doyle, T., d’Arcy Metcalfe, R., Öztürk, A.A., Di Berardo, M. and Thompson, R. C. (2018) Exploring public views on marine litter in Europe: Perceived causes, consequences and pathways to change, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 133 , 945-955.

114. Havlin, P., Caravaggi, A. and Montgomery, W.I. (2018) The distribution and trophic ecology of an introduced, insular population of red-necked wallabies (Notamacropus rufogriseus), Canadian Journal of Zoology, 96, 4, 357-365.

115. Hawchar, L., El Soueidy, CP. and Schoefs, F. (2018) Global kriging surrogate modeling for general time-variant reliability-based design optimization problems, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 58, 955-968.

116. Hayes, S., Duhoo, Y., Neve, H., Murphy, J., Noben, J. -., Franz, C. M. A. P., Cambillau, C., Mahony, J., Nauta, A. and van Sinderen, D. (2018) Identification of dual receptor binding protein systems in lactococcal 936 group phages, Viruses, 10, 12, 668.

117. Hays, G. C., Doyle, T. K. and Houghton, J. D. R. (2018) A paradigm shift in the trophic importance of jellyfish? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 33, 11, 874-884.

118. Henriques, R. , Papdi, C. , Ahmad, Z. and Bögre, L. (2018) Circadian Regulation of Plant Growth, In: J. A. Roberts (Editor), Annual Plant Reviews online, Wiley, 1, 1-29.

119. Herman, A., Goodman, M and Sage, C. (2018) Six Questions for Food Justice, Local Environment 23, 11, 1075-1089.

120. Herrmann, C., Ramm, P. and Murphy, J. D. (2018) The relationship between bioreactor design and feedstock for optimal biogas production, In: Q. Liao, J. Chang, C. Herrmann and A. Xia (Editors), Bioreactors for Microbial Biomass and Energy Conversion, Green Energy and Technology, Springer, Singapore, pp, 163-197.

121. Himanshu, H., Murphy, J. D., Grant, J. and O’Kiely, P. (2018) Antagonistic effects on biogas and methane output when co-digesting cattle and pig slurries with grass silage in in vitro batch anaerobic digestion, Biomass and Bioenergy, 109, 190-198.

122. Himanshu, H., Murphy, J. D., Grant, J. and O’Kiely, P. (2018) Synergies from co-digesting grass or clover silages with cattle slurry in in vitro batch anaerobic digestion, Renewable Energy, 127, 474-480.

123. Holloway, P. (2018) Simulating movement-related resource dynamics to improve species distribution models: A case study with oilbirds in Northern South America, Professional Geographer, 70, 4, 528-540.

124. Holloway, P., Kudenko, D. and Bell, J. R. (2018) Dynamic selection of environmental variables to improve the prediction of aphid phenology: A machine learning approach, Ecological Indicators, 88, 512-521.

125. Hughes, K., Gao, X., O’Reilly, É.J., Kim, I., Wang, M., Weisskopf, M., Schwarzschild, M. and Ascherio, A. (2018) Genetic variants related to urate and risk of Parkinson’s disease, Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 53, 4-9.

126. Hynds, P., Regan, S., Andrade, L., Mooney, S., O’Malley, K., DiPelino, S. and O’Dwyer, J. (2018) Muddy waters: Refining the way forward for the “sustainability science” of socio-hydrogeology, Water, 10, 9, 1111.

127. Iglesias, G. (2018) The Marine Resource, In: D. Greaves and G. Iglesias (Editors), Wave and Tidal Energy, Wiley, UK, pp, 15-51.

128. Iglesias, G. , Astariz, S. and Vazquez, A. (2018) The Economics of Wave and Tidal Energy, In: D. Greaves and G. Iglesias (Editors), Wave and Tidal Energy, Wiley, UK, pp, 513-532.

129. Iglesias, G. , Tercero, J. A., Simas, T. , Machado, I. and Cruz, E. (2018) Environmental Effects, In: D. Greaves and G. Iglesias (Editors), Wave and Tidal Energy, Wiley, UK, pp, 364-454.

130. Jackson, S. A., Crossman, L., Almeida, E. L., Margassery, L. M., Kennedy, J. and Dobson, A. D. W. (2018) Diverse and abundant secondary metabolism biosynthetic gene clusters in the genomes of marine sponge derived Streptomyces spp. isolates, Marine Drugs, 16, 2, 62.

131. Jacobs, A., De Noia, M., Praebel, K., Kanstad-Hanssen, Ø., Paterno, M., Jackson, D., McGinnity, Sturm, P.A., Elmer, K.R. and Llewellyn, M. S. (2018) Genetic fingerprinting of salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) populations in the North-East Atlantic using a random forest classification approach, Scientific Reports, 8, 1, 1203.

132. Jadhav, V. V., Kore, R. M., Thorat, N. D., Yun, J. M., Kim, K. H., Mane, R. S. and O’Dwyer, C. (2018) Annealing environment effects on the electrochemical behavior of supercapacitors using ni foam current collectors, Materials Research Express, 5, 125004.

133. Jagodzinski, L. S., O’Donoghue, M. T., Heffernan, L. B., van Pelt, F. N. A. M., O’Halloran, J. and Jansen, M. A. K. (2018) Wood ash residue causes a mixture of growth promotion and toxicity in Lemna minor, Science of the Total Environment, 625, 667-676.

134. Johannsdottir, L. and McInerney, C. (2018) Developing and using a five C framework for implementing environmental sustainability strategies: A case study of Nordic insurers, Journal of Cleaner Production, 183, 1252-1264.

135. Johnson, K., Dalton, G. and Masters, I. (2018) Building Industries at Sea - ‘Blue Growth’ and the new maritime economy, River Publishers, Gistrup, Denmark.

136. Juergens, H., Varela, J. A., de Vries, A. R. G., Perli, T., Gast, V. J. M., Gyurchev, N. Y., Rajkumar, A.S., Mans, R., Pronk, J.T., Morrissey, J.P., Daran, J. -. G. (2018) Genome editing in Kluyveromyces and Ogataea yeasts using a broad-host-range Cas9/gRNA co-expression plasmid, FEMS Yeast Research, 18, 3, foy012.

137. Kadhum, H. J., Rajendran, K., and Murthy, G. S. (2018) Optimization of surfactant addition in cellulosic ethanol process using integrated techno-economic and life cycle assessment for bioprocess design, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 6, 11, 13687-13695.

138. Kamidelivand, M., Cahill, C., Llop, M., Rogan, F. and O’Gallachoir, B. (2018) A comparative analysis of substituting imported gas and coal for electricity with renewables – an input-output simulation, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 30, 1-10.

139. Karki, K., Wu, L., Ma, Y., Armstrong, M. J., Holmes, J. D., Garofalini, S. H., Zhu, Y., Stach, E.A., and Wang, F. (2018) Revisiting conversion reaction mechanisms in lithium batteries: Lithiation-driven topotactic transformation in FeF 2, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140, 51, 17915-17922.

140. Karlsson K., Nørgård, J., Gea Bermúdez, J., Balyk, O., Wackernagel, M., Glynn, J. and Kanudia, A. (2018) The Role of Population, Affluence, Technological Development and Diet in a Below 2 °C World, In: G. Giannakidis, K. Karlsson, M. Labriet and B. Gallachóir (Editors) Limiting Global Warming to Well Below 2 °C: Energy System Modelling and Policy Development, Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 64. Springer, Cham, pp, 85-102.

141. Kavanagh, A. S., Kett, G., Richardson, N., Rogan, E. and Jessopp, M. J. (2018) High latitude winter sightings of common minke whale calves (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in the Northeast Atlantic, Marine Biodiversity Records 11, 1, 22.

142. Kelleher, P., Murphy, J., Mahony, J. and van Sinderen, D. (2018) Identification of DNA base modifications by means of pacific biosciences RS sequencing technology, In: M. Clokie, A. Kropinski and R. Lavigne (Editors), Bacteriophages, Methods in Molecular Biology, 1681, Humana Press, New York, NY, pp, 127-137.

143. Kennedy, C. R., Jaksic, V., Leen, S. B. and Brádaigh, C. M. Ó. (2018) Fatigue life of pitch- and stall-regulated composite tidal turbine blades, Renewable Energy, 121, 688-699.

144. Kennedy, N., Duffy, R., Eaton, L., O’Connell, D., Monaghan, S., Garvey, S., Connolly, J., Hatem, C., Holmes, J.D. and Long, B. (2018) Phosphorus monolayer doping (MLD) of silicon on insulator (SOI) substrates, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 9, 1, 2106-2113.

145. Kennelly, M. A., Ainscough, K., Lindsay, K. L., O’Sullivan, E., Gibney, E. R., McCarthy, M., Segurado, R., DeVito, G., Maguire, O., Smith, T., Hatunic, M. and McAuliffe, F. M. (2018) Pregnancy exercise and nutrition with smartphone application support a randomized controlled trial, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 131, 5, 818-826.

146. Kenny, T, Cronin, M. and Sage, C. (2018) A retrospective public health analysis of the Republic of Ireland’s Food Harvest 2020 strategy, Critical Public Health Vol. 28, 1, 94-105.

147. Kerr, S., Watts, L., Brennan, R., Howell, R., Graziano, M., O’Hagan, A.M., van der Horst, D., Weir, S., Wright, G. and Wynne, B. (2018) Shaping Blue Growth: Social Sciences at the Nexus Between Marine Renewables and Energy Policy. In: C. Foulds and R. Robison (Editors), Advancing Energy Policy: Lessons on the Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp, 31-46.

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148. Kettel, E. F., Gentle, L. K., Quinn, J. L. and Yarnell, R. W. (2018) The breeding performance of raptors in urban landscapes: A review and meta-analysis, Journal of Ornithology, 159, 1, 1-18.

149. Keyes, M. G. M., Quill, N., Bourke, A., O’Dwyer, C., Nolan, C., Clancy, I., Buckley, D. N. and Lynch, R. P. (2018) Model of Formation and Propagation of Nanoporous Structures in Indium Phosphide during Anodisation in Aqueous KOH, ECS Trans. 85, 1335-1348.

150. Khojasteh, D., Khojasteh, D., Kamali, R., Beyene, A. and Iglesias, G. (2018) Assessment of renewable energy resources in Iran; with a focus on wave and tidal energy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 81, 2992-3005.

151. Khojasteh, D., Mousavi, S. M., Glamore, W. and Iglesias, G. (2018) Wave energy status in Asia, Ocean Engineering, 169, 344-358.

152. Killeen, G. F. and Reed, T. E. (2018) The portfolio effect cushions mosquito populations and malaria transmission against vector control interventions, Malaria Journal, 17, 1, 291.

153. Kim, I., O’Reilly, É.J., Hughes, K., Gao, X., Schwarzschild, M., Mccullough, M., Hannan, M.T., Betensky, R. and Ascherio, A. (2018) Interaction between caffeine and polymorphisms of glutamate ionotropic receptor NMDA type subunit 2A (GRIN2A) and cytochrome P450 1A2 (CYP1A2) on Parkinson’s disease risk, Movement Disorders, 33, 3, 414-420.

154. Kim, I., O’Reilly, É.J., Hughes, K., Gao, X., Schwarzschild, M., Hannan, M.T., Betensky, R. and Ascherio, A. (2018) Integration of risk factors for Parkinson disease in 2 large longitudinal cohorts, Neurology, 90, 19, e1646-e1653.

155. Kim, J.-M., Santure, A. W., Barton, H. J., Quinn, J. L., Cole, E. F., Visser, M. E., Sheldon, B.C., Groenen, M.A.M., van Oers, K., and Slate, J. (2018) A high-density SNP chip for genotyping great tit (Parus major) populations and its application to studying the genetic architecture of exploration behaviour, Molecular Ecology Resources, 18, 4, 877-891.

156. Kioumourtzoglou, M.-A., Coull, B. A., O’Reilly, E. J., Ascherio, A. and Weisskopf, M. G. (2018) Association of exposure to diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy with multigenerational neurodevelopmental deficits, JAMA Pediatrics, 172, 7, 670-677.

157. Kirrane, M. J., de Guzman, L. I., Whelan, P. M., Frake, A. M. and Rinderer, T. E. (2018) Evaluations of the removal of Varroa destructor in Russian honey bee colonies that display different levels of Varroa sensitive hygienic activities, Journal of Insect Behavior, 31, 3, 283-297.

158. Köck, W. and Magsig, B.-O. (2018) Management of Non-Indigenous Species and Invasive Alien Species, In: M. Salomon and T. Markus (Editors), Handbook on Marine Environment Protection: Science, Impacts and Sustainable Management, Springer, pp, 905-18.

159. Kulahci, I. G., Ghazanfar, A. A. and Rubenstein, D. I. (2018) Consistent individual variation across interaction networks indicates social personalities in lemurs, Animal Behaviour, 136, 217-226.

160. Kulahci, I. G., Ghazanfar, A. A. and Rubenstein, D. I. (2018) Knowledgeable lemurs become more central in social networks, Current Biology, 28(8), 1306-1310.e2.

161. Kumar, S., Meena, V.K., Hazari, P.P., Sharma, S.K. and Sharma, R.K. (2018) Rose Bengal attached and dextran coated gadolinium oxide nanoparticles for potential diagnostic imaging applications, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 117, 362-370.

162. Kypreos, S., Glynn, J., Panos, E., Giannakidis, G. and Ó Gallachóir, B. (2018) Efficient and Equitable Climate Change Policies, Systems, 6, 10.

163. Lange, M., O’Hagan, A. M., Devoy, R. R. N., Le Tissier, M. and Cummins, V. (2018) Governance barriers to sustainable energy transitions – assessing Ireland’s capacity towards marine energy futures, Energy Policy, 113, 623-632.

164. Lange, M., Page, G. and Cummins, V. (2018) Governance challenges of marine renewable energy developments in the U.S. – creating the enabling conditions for successful project development, Marine Policy, 90, 37-46.

165. Lavelle, K., Murphy, J., Fitzgerald, B., Lugli, G. A., Zomer, A., Neve, H., Ventura, M., Franz, C.M., Cambillau, C., van Sinderen, D. and Mahony, J. (2018) A decade of Streptococcus thermophilus phage evolution in an Irish dairy plant, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 84, 10, e02855-17.

166. Le Tohic, C., O’Sullivan, J. J., Drapala, K. P., Chartrin, V., Chan, T., Morrison, A. P., Kerry, J.P. and Kelly, A. L. (2018) Effect of 3D printing on the structure and textural properties of processed cheese, Journal of Food Engineering, 220, 56-64.

167. Leahy, K., Gallagher, C., O’Donovan, P. and O’Sullivan, D. T. J. (2018) Cluster analysis of wind turbine alarms for characterising and classifying stoppages, IET Renewable Power Generation, 12, 10, 1146-1154.

168. Leahy, K., Gallagher, C., O’Donovan, P., Bruton, K. and O’Sullivan, D. T. J. (2018) A robust prescriptive framework and performance metric for diagnosing and predicting wind turbine faults based on SCADA and alarms data with case study, Energies, 11, 7, 1738.

169. Leahy, K., Hu, R. L., Konstantakopoulos, I. C., Spanos, C. J., Agogino, A. M. and O’Sullivan, D. T. J. (2018) Diagnosing and predicting wind turbine faults from SCADA data using support vector machines, International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management, 9, 1, 006.

170. Li, L., Wu, W., Giller, P., O’Halloran, J., Liang, L., Peng, P. and Zhao, G. (2018) Life cycle assessment of a highly diverse vegetable multi-cropping system in Fengqiu County, hina, Sustainability (Switzerland), 10, 4.

171. Li, W., Nyhan, M. M., Wilker, E. H., Vieira, C. L. Z., Lin, H., Schwartz, J. D., Gold, D.R., Coull, B.A., Aba, A.M., Benjamin, E.J., Vasan, R.S.8, Koutrakis, P. and Mittleman, M. A. (2018) Recent exposure to particle radioactivity and biomarkers of oxidative stress and inflammation: The Framingham Heart Study, Environment International, 121, 1210-1216.

172. Lim, A., Huvenne, V. A. I., Vertino, A., Spezzaferri, S. and Wheeler, A. J. (2018) New insights on coral mound development from groundtruthed high-resolution ROV-mounted multibeam imaging, Marine Geology, 403, 225-237.

173. Lim, A., Kane, A., Arnaubec, A. and Wheeler, A. J. (2018) Seabed image acquisition and survey design for cold water coral mound characterisation, Marine Geology, 395, 22-32.

174. Lin, C., Huang, R. -., Ceburnis, D., Buckley, P., Preissler, J., Wenger, J., Rinaldi, M., Facchini, M.C., O’Dowd, C. and Ovadnevaite, J. (2018) Extreme air pollution from residential solid fuel burning, Nature Sustainability, 1, 9, 512-517.

175. Lin, R., Cheng, J. and Murphy, J. D. (2018) Inhibition of thermochemical treatment on biological hydrogen and methane co-production from algae-derived glucose/glycine, Energy Conversion and Management, 158, 201-209.

176. Lin, R., Cheng, J., Ding, L. and Murphy, J. D. (2018) Improved efficiency of anaerobic digestion through direct interspecies electron transfer at mesophilic and thermophilic temperature ranges, Chemical Engineering Journal, 350, 681-691.

177. Lin, R., Deng, C., Cheng, J., Xia A., Lens, P.N.L., Jackson, S.A., Dobson, A.D.W. and Murphy, J.D. (2018) Graphene Facilitates Biomethane Production from Protein-Derived Glycine in Anaerobic Digestion, iScience, 10, 158-170.

178. Lonergan, A., McNulty, D. and O’Dwyer, C. (2018) Tetrahedral framework of inverse opal photonic crystals defines the optical response and photonic band gap, Journal of Applied Physics, 124, 095106.

179. Lusher, A. L., Hernandez-Milian, G., Berrow, S., Rogan, E. and O’Connor, I. (2018) Incidence of marine debris in cetaceans stranded and bycaught in Ireland: Recent findings and a review of historical knowledge, Environmental Pollution, 232, 467-476.

180. Lynch Fannon, I. (2018) A Toad We Have to Swallow, In: B. Sjåfjell and I. Lynch Fannon (Editors), Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp, 114-137.

181. Lynch Fannon, I. and Sjåfjell, B. (2018) Corporations, sustainability and women, In: B. Sjåfjell and I. Lynch Fannon (Editors), Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp, 1-14.

182. Mackey, P., Cano, R., Foley, V.M. and McGlacken, G.P. (2018) Preparation of -1,3-Amino Alcohol Derivatives through an Asymmetric Aldol-Tishchenko Reaction of Sulfinimines, Organic syntheses, 20.06.2018, 259-279.

183. Mahajan, P. V. and Sousa-Gallagher, M. J. (2018) Analysis of commercially available packages of fresh-cut fruits, Acta Horticulturae, 1209, 453-458.

184. Mahajan, P. V. and Sousa-Gallagher, M. J. (2018) The impact of proportion of different cut-fruits on respiration rate of fruit salad, Acta Horticulturae, 1209, 359-364.

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186. Manning, H. G., Niosi, F., da Rocha, C. G., Bellew, A. T., O’Callaghan, C., Biswas, S., Flowers, P.F., Wiley, B.J., Holmes, J.D., Ferreira, M.S., and Boland, J. J. (2018) Emergence of winner-takes-all connectivity paths in random nanowire networks, Nature Communications, 9, 3219.

187. Marchionne, A., Ditlevsen, P. and Wieczorek, S. (2018) Synchronisation vs. resonance: Isolated resonances in damped nonlinear oscillators, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 380-381, 8-16.

188. Martín, G., Rovira, A., Veciana, N., Soy, J., Toledo-Ortiz, G., Gommers, C. M. M., Boix, M., Henriques, R., Minguet, E.G., Alabadí, D., Halliday, K.J., Leivar, P. and Monte, E. (2018) Circadian waves of transcriptional repression shape PIF-regulated photoperiod-responsive growth in Arabidopsis, Current Biology, 28, 2, 311-318.e5.

189. Martinez Cillero, M., Thorne, F., Wallace, M., Breen, J. and Hennessy, T. (2018) The effects of direct payments on technical efficiency of irish beef farms: A stochastic frontier analysis, Journal of Agricultural Economics, 69, 3, 669-687.

190. Marzband, M., Azarinejadian, F., Savaghebi, M., Pouresmaeil, E., Guerrero, J. M. and Lightbody, G. (2018) Smart transactive energy framework in grid-connected multiple home microgrids under independent and coalition operations, Renewable Energy, 126, 95-106.

191. Marzband, M., Fouladfar, M. H., Akorede, M. F., Lightbody, G. and Pouresmaeil, E. (2018) Framework for smart transactive energy in home-microgrids considering coalition formation and demand side management, Sustainable Cities and Society, 40, 136-154.

192. Marzband, M., Javadi, M., Pourmousavi, S. A. and Lightbody, G. (2018) An advanced retail electricity market for active distribution systems and home microgrid interoperability based on game theory, Electric Power Systems Research, 157, 187-199.

193. McCabe, K., Schmidt,T. (2018). INTEGRATED BIOGAS SYSTEMS: Local applications of anaerobic digestion towards integrated sustainable solutions. Murphy, J.D. (Ed.) IEA Bioenergy Task 37, 2018: 5

194. Mc Dowell, C. P., Carlin, A., Capranica, L., Dillon, C., Harrington, J. M., Lakerveld, J., Anne Loyen, Fiona Chun Man Ling, Johannes Brug, Ciaran MacDonncha and Matthew P. Herring (2018) Associations of self-reported physical activity and depression in 10,000 Irish adults across harmonised datasets: A DEDIPAC-study, BMC Public Health, 18, 1, 779.

195. McDonagh, S., O’Shea, R., Wall, D. M., Deane, J. P. and Murphy, J. D. (2018) Modelling of a power-to-gas system to predict the levelised cost of energy of an advanced renewable gaseous transport fuel, Applied Energy, 215, 444-456.

196. McGlacken, G. P., Hayes, S., Maguire, A. R., O’Halloran, J. and Hodnett, K. (2018) Industry–Academia partnership: The synthesis and solid-state pharmaceutical centre (SSPC) as a collaborative approach from molecule to medicine, Chemistry - A European Journal, 24, 2, 499-503.

197. McIntyre, O. (2018) International water law and sustainable development goal 6: Mutually reinforcing paradigms, In: D. French and L.J. Kotze (Editors), Sustainable Development Goals: Law, Theory and Implementation, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp, 173-201.

198. McIntyre, O. (2018) Protection and preservation of freshwater ecosystems (Articles 20-23), In: L. Boisson de Chazournes, M. Moïse Mbengue, M. Tignino, K. Sangbana and J. Rudall, The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses: A Commentary, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp, 193-213.

199. McIntyre, O. (2018) Responsibility and liability in international law for damage to transboundary freshwater resources, In: M. Tignino, G. Pflieger and C. Bréthaut (Editors), Research Handbook on Freshwater Law and International Relations, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp, 335-366.

200. McIntyre, O. (2018) The making of international natural resources law’, In: J. Chen (Editor), Global Resources Governance: Objects, Themes and Actions, Central Compilation & Translation Press, Global Governance Series, Beijing, pp, 37-67.

201. McIntyre, O. (2018) Transnational environmental regulation and the normativisation of global environmental governance standards: The promise of order from chaos, Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law, 10, 2, 92-112.

202. McNamara, M. E., Kaye, J. S., Benton, M. J., Orr, P. J., Rossi, V., Ito, S. and Wakamatsu, K. (2018) Non-integumentary melanosomes can bias reconstructions of the colours of fossil vertebrates, Nature Communications, 9, 2878.

203. McNamara, M. E., Zhang, F., Kearns, S. L., Orr, P. J., Toulouse, A., Foley, T., Hone, D.W.E., Rogers, C.S., Benton, M.J., Johnson, D., Xu, X. and Zhou, Z. (2018) Fossilized skin reveals coevolution with feathers and metabolism in feathered dinosaurs and early birds, Nature Communications, 9, 2072.

204. McNulty, D., Collins, G. and O’Dwyer, C. (2018) NiVO3 fused oxide nanoparticles-an electrochemically stable intercalation anode material for lithium ion batteries, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6, 37, 18103-18115.

205. McNulty, D., Geaney, H., Buckley, D. and O’Dwyer, C. (2018) High capacity binder-free nanocrystalline GeO2 inverse opal anodes for li-ion batteries with long cycle life and stable cell voltage, Nano Energy, 43, 11-21.

206. McNulty, D., Lonergan, A., O’Hanlon, S. and O’Dwyer, C. (2018) 3D open-worked inverse opal TiO2 and GeO2 materials for long life, high capacity li-ion battery anodes, Solid State Ionics, 314, 195-203.

207. Mehigan, L., Deane, J. P., Gallachóir, B. P. Ó. and Bertsch, V. (2018). A review of the role of distributed generation (DG) in future electricity systems. Energy, 163, 822-836.

208. Merder, J., Freund, J. A., Meysick, L., Simkanin, C., O’Riordan, R. M. and Power, A. M. (2018) East-west spatial groupings in intertidal communities, environmental drivers and key species, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 98, 2, 423-435.

209. Micaroni, V., Strano, F., Di Franco, D., Crocetta, F., Grech, D., Piraino, S. and Boero, F. (2018) Project “Biodiversity MARE tricase”: A biodiversity inventory of the coastal area of tricase (Ionian Sea, Italy)–Mollusca: Heterobranchia, European Zoological Journal, 85, 179-192.

210. Micaroni, V., Strano, F., Di Franco, D., Langeneck, J., Gravili, C., Bertolino, M., Costa, G., Rindi, F., Froglia, C., Crocetta, F., Giangrande, A., Nicoletti, L., Medagli, P., Zuccarello, V., Arzeni, S., Bo, M., Betti, F., Mastrototaro, F., Lattanzi, L., Piraino, S. andBoero, F. (2018) Project “Biodiversity MARE Tricase”: biodiversity research, monitoring and promotion at MARE Outpost (Apulia, Italy), Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei 29, 599-604.

211. Mittal, S., Ahlgren, E. O. and Shukla, P. R. (2018) Barriers to biogas dissemination in India: A review, Energy Policy, 112, 361-370.

212. Mittal, S., Liu, J.-Y., Fujimori, S. and Shukla, P. R. (2018) An assessment of near-to-mid-term economic impacts and energy transitions under «2°C» and «1.5°C» scenarios for India, Energies, 11, 9, 2213.

213. Monadjem, A., Kane, A., Botha, A., Kelly, C. and Murn, C. (2018) Spatially explicit poisoning risk affects survival rates of an obligate scavenger, Scientific Reports, 8, 1, 4364.

214. Monadjem, A., Kane, A., Taylor, P., Richards, L. R., Hall, G. and Woodborne, S. (2018) Morphology and stable isotope analysis demonstrate different structuring of bat communities in rainforest and savannah habitats, Royal Society Open Science, 5, 12, 180849.

215. Moran, PA, Pascoal, S, Cezard, T, Risse, JE, Ritchie, MG, Bailey, NW (2018) Opposing patterns of intraspecific and interspecific differentiation in sex chromosomes and autosomes, Mol Ecol, 27, 3905– 3924.

216. Morgana, S., Ghigliotti, L., Estévez-Calvar, N., Stifanese, R., Wieckzorek, A., Doyle, T., Christiansen, J.S., Faimalia, M. and Garaventa, F. (2018) Microplastics in the Arctic: A case study with sub-surface water and fish samples off Northeast Greenland, Environmental Pollution, 242, 1078-1086.

217. Moynihan, R. and Magsig, B.-O. (2018)Prevention and Mitigation of Harmful Conditions and Emergency Situations (Articles 27-28), In: L. Boisson de Chazournes, M. Moïse Mbengue, M. Tignino, K. Sangbana and J. Rudall, The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses: A Commentary, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp, 275-96.

218. Mullally, G., Dunphy, N. and O’Connor, P. (2018) Participative environmental policy integration in the Irish energy sector, Environmental Science and Policy, 83, 71-78.

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219. Muthusamy S., Govindaraj D., Rajendran K. (2018) Phytoremediation of Textile Dye Effluents, In: Varjani S., Agarwal A., Gnansounou E., Gurunathan B. (Editors) Bioremediation: Applications for Environmental Protection and Management, Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, Springer, Singapore, pp, 359-373.

220. Myles, A., Haberlin, D., Esteban-Tejeda, L., Angione, M. D., Browne, M. P., Hoque, M. K., Doyle, T.K., Scanlan, E.M. and Colavita, P. E. (2018) Bioinspired aryldiazonium carbohydrate coatings: Reduced adhesion of foulants at polymer and stainless steel surfaces in a marine environment, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 6, 1, 1141-1151.

221. Nyhan, M. M., Coull, B. A., Blomberg, A. J., Vieira, C. L. Z., Garshick, E., Aba, A., Vold, D.R., Schwartz, J. and Koutrakis, P. (2018) Associations between ambient particle radioactivity and blood pressure: The NAS (normative aging study), Journal of the American Heart Association, 7, 6, e008245.

222. Nykänen, M., Dillane, E., Englund, A., Foote, A. D., Ingram, S. N., Louis, M., Mirimin, L., Oudejans, M. and Rogan, E. (2018) Quantifying dispersal between marine protected areas by a highly mobile species, the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncates, Ecology and Evolution, 8, 18, 9241-9258.

223. Nykänen, M., Jessopp, M., Doyle, T. K., Harman, L. A., Cañadas, A., Breen, P., Hunt, W., Mackey, M., Ó Cadhla, O., Reid, D. and Rogan, E. (2018) Using tagging data and aerial surveys to incorporate availability bias in the abundance estimation of blue sharks (Prionace glauca), PLoS ONE, 13, 9, e0203122.

224. Ó Muimhneacháin, E., Reen, F. J., O’Gara, F. and McGlacken, G. P. (2018) Analogues of Pseudomonas aeruginosa signalling molecules to tackle infections, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 16, 2, 169-179.

225. O’Hagan, A.M. (2018) Consenting and Legal Aspects, In: D. Greaves and G. Iglesias (Editors), Wave and Tidal Energy, Wiley, UK, pp, 455-512.

226. O’Hagan, A.M. (2018) Regulation and Planning in Sea Basins - North East Atlantic, In: K. Johnson, G. Dalton and I. Masters (Editors), Building Industries at Sea - ‘Blue Growth’ and the new maritime economy, River Publishers, Gistrup, Denmark, pp, 313-340.

227. O’Hagan, A.M. and Wright, G. (2018) Consenting ocean energy projects: an overview of procedures in selected jurisdictions (Chapter 8). In: G. Wright, S. Kerr and K. Johnson (Editors): Ocean Energy: Governance challenges for wave and tidal stream technologies, Earthscan/Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, pp. 124-142.

228. O’Hagan, A.M. and Wright, G. (2018) Consenting ocean energy projects: issues, challenges and opportunities, In: G. Wright, S. Kerr and K. Johnson (Editors), Ocean Energy: Governance challenges for wave and tidal stream technologies. Earthscan/Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, England, pp, 101-123.

229. O’Mahony, E. and Murphy, M. (2018) Drawing lines on pages: Remaking the catholic parish maps of Ireland as a tidal public geography, Irish Geography, 51, 1, 25-44.

230. O’Meara, D. B., McDevitt, A. D., O’Neill, D., Harrington, A. P., Turner, P., Carr, W., Desmond, M., Lawton, C., Marnell, F., Rubalcava, S., Sheehy, E., Sleeman, D.P., Tosh, D., Waters, C. and O’Reilly, C. (2018) Retracing the history and planning the future of the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in Ireland using non-invasive genetics, Mammal Research, 63, 2, 173-184.

231. O’Reilly, É. J., Bjornevik, K., Schwarzschild, M. A., McCullough, M. L., Kolonel, L. N., Le Marchand, L., Manson, J.E. and Ascherio, A. (2018) Pre-diagnostic plasma urate and the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration, 19, 3-4, 194-200.

232. O’Reilly, É.J., Wang, M., Adami, H.-O., Alonso, A., Bernstein, L., van den Brandt, P., Buring, J., Daugherty, S., Deapen, D., Freedman, M.D., & English, D., Giles, G., Håkansson, N., Kurth, T., Schairer, C., Weiderpass, E., Wolk, A. and Smith-Warner, S.A. (2018) Prediagnostic body size and risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis death in 10 studies, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration, 19, 5-6, 396-406.

233. O’Shea, W., O’Halloran, J. and Quinn, J. L. (2018) Breeding phenology, provisioning behaviour, and unusual patterns of life history variation across an anthropogenic heterogeneous landscape, Oecologia, 188, 4, 953-964.

234. O’Connor, S., Doyle, E. and Doran, J. (2018) Diversity, employment growth and spatial spillovers amongst Irish regions, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 68, 260-267.

235. Odin, G. P., McNamara, M. E., Arwin, H. and Järrendahl, K. (2018) Experimental degradation of helicoidal photonic nanostructures in scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): Implications for the identification of circularly polarizing cuticle in the fossil record, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 15, 148, 20180560.

236. O’Donovan, P., Gallagher, C., Bruton, K. and O’Sullivan, D. T. J. (2018) A fog computing industrial cyber-physical system for embedded low-latency machine learning industry 4.0 applications, Manufacturing Letters, 15, 139-142.

237. O’Dwyer, C., Lynch, R. and Lewerenz, H. J. (2018) Preface-focus issue on processes at the semiconductor-solution interface, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 165, 4, Y5.

238. O’Dwyer, C., Walsh, L. A., Gity, F., Bhattacharjee, S. and Hurley, P. K. (2018) Two-dimensional materials and their role in emerging electronic and photonic devices, Electrochemical Society Interface, 27, 4, 53-58.

239. O’Dwyer, J., Hynds, P. D., Byrne, K. A., Ryan, M. P. and Adley, C. C. (2018) Development of a hierarchical model for predicting microbiological contamination of private groundwater supplies in a geologically heterogeneous region, Environmental Pollution, 237, 329-338.

240. O’Dwyer, J., Walshe, D. and Byrne, K. A. (2018) Wood waste decomposition in landfills: An assessment of current knowledge and implications for emissions reporting, Waste Management, 73, 181-188.

241. O’Flaherty, E. A. A., Tsermoula, P., O’Neill, E. E. and O’Brien, N. M. (2018) Co-products of beef processing enhance non-haem iron absorption in an in vitro digestion/caco-2 cell model, International Journal of Food Science and Technology, 54, 1256-1264.

242. Ogundeji, A. A., Donkor, E., Motsoari, C. and Onakuse, S. (2018) Impact of access to credit on farm income: Policy implications for rural agricultural development in Lesotho, Agrekon, 57, 2, 152-166.

243. O’Neill, R., Ó Maoiléidigh, N., McGinnity, P., Bond, N. and Culloty, S. (2018) The novel use of pop-off satellite tags (PSATs) to investigate the migratory behaviour of European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax, Journal of Fish Biology, 92, 5, 1404-1421.

244. O’Reilly, A. J., Laide, C., Maloy, A., Hutton, S., Bookelaar, B., O’Sullivan, K., Lynch, S.A. and Culloty, S. C. (2018) The role of the mussel Mytilus spp. in the transmission of ostreid herpesvirus-1 microVar, Parasitology, 145, 8, 1095-1104.

245. Ortiz-Merino, R. A., Kuanyshev, N., Byrne, K. P., Varela, J. A., Morrissey, J. P., Porro, D., Wolfe, K.H. and Branduardi, P. (2018) Transcriptional response to lactic acid stress in the hybrid yeast Zygosaccharomyces parabailii, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 84, 5, e02294-17.

246. Ortiz-Merino, R. A., Varela, J. A., Coughlan, A. Y., Hoshida, H., da Silveira, W. B., Wilde, C., Kuijpers, N.G.A., Geertman, J.M., Wolfe, K.H. and Morrissey, J. P. (2018) Ploidy variation in Kluyveromyces marxianus separates dairy and non-dairy isolates, Frontiers in Genetics, 9, 94.

247. Ortiz-Romero, C., Almeida, A. S., Pathania, S., Silva, C., Lourenço, D., Oliveira, J. and Brites, C. (2018) Rice plant pattern as predictor of the milling and cooking quality in breeding programs, Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture, 30, 6, 463-481.

248. O’Sullivan, A. C. M., Sheng, W. and Lightbody, G. (2018) An analysis of the potential benefits of centralised predictive control for optimal electrical power generation from wave energy arrays, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 9, 4, 1761-1771.

249. O’Sullivan, R. J. (2018) Unusually high tolerance of fledged offspring in little grebes, British Birds, 111, 2, 109-110.

250. Outerbridge, M.E., O’Riordan, R. and Davenport, J. (2018) Post-emergent movements and survivorship of diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) hatchlings in Bermuda: the role of predation by herons. Testudo 8, 5, 30-40.

251. Pakrashi, V., Fitzgerald, P., O’Leary, M., Jaksic, V., Ryan, K. and Basu, B. (2018) Assessment of structural nonlinearities employing extremes of dynamic responses, JVC/Journal of Vibration and Control, 24, 1, 137-152.

252. Paolacci, S., Harrison, S. and Jansen, M. A. K. (2018) Are alien species necessarily stress sensitive? A case study on Lemna minuta and Lemna minor, Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants, 249, 31-39.

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253. Paolacci, S., Harrison, S. and Jansen, M. A. K. (2018) The invasive duckweed Lemna minuta Kunth displays a different light utilisation strategy than native Lemna minor Linnaeus, Aquatic Botany, 146, 8-14.

254. Paolacci, S., Jansen, M. A. K. and Harrison, S. (2018) Competition between Lemna minuta, Lemna minor, and Azolla filiculoides. Growing fast or being steadfast? Frontiers in Chemistry, 6, 207.

255. Peddapatla, R. V. G., Ahmed, M. R., Blackshields, C. A., Sousa-Gallagher, M. J., McSweeney, S., Kruse, J., Crean, A.M. and Fitzpatrick, D. (2018) Broadband acoustic resonance dissolution spectroscopy (BARDS): A novel approach to investigate the wettability of pharmaceutical powder blends, Molecular Pharmaceutics, 15, 1, 31-39.

256. Perez-Collazo, C., Greaves, D. and Iglesias, G. (2018) A novel hybrid wind-wave energy converter for jacket-frame substructures, Energies, 11, 3, 637.

257. Perez-Collazo, C., Greaves, D. and Iglesias, G. (2018) Hydrodynamic response of the WEC sub-system of a novel hybrid wind-wave energy converter, Energy Conversion and Management, 171, 307-325.

258. Persson, Å., Runhaar, H., Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, S., Mullally, G., Russel, D. and Widmer, A. (2018) Editorial: Environmental policy integration: Taking stock of policy practice in different contexts, Environmental Science and Policy, 85, 113-115.

259. Petticrew, J. D., Dimler, S. J., Zhou, X., Morrison, A. P., Tan, C. H. and Ng, J. S. (2018) Avalanche breakdown timing statistics for silicon single photon avalanche diodes, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 24, 2, 1-6.

260. Phillips, C. M., Dillon, C. B. and Perry, I. J. (2018) Replacement of sedentary time with physical activity: Effect on lipoproteins, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 50, 5, 967-976.

261. Phillips, K. P., Cable, J., Mohammed, R. S., Herdegen-Radwan, M., Raubic, J., Przesmycka, K. J., van Oosterhout, C. and Radwan, J. (2018). Immunogenetic novelty confers a selective advantage in host–pathogen coevolution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115, 7, 1552-1557.

262. Pirotta, E., Booth, C.G., Costa, D.P., Fleishmann, E., Kraus, S.D., Lusseau, D., Moretti, D., New, L.F., Schick, R.S., Schwarz, L.K., Simmons, S.E., Thomas, L., Tyack, P.L., Weise, M.J., Wells, R.S. and Harwood, J. (2018) Understanding the population consequences of disturbance, Ecology and Evolution, 8, 9934– 9946.

263. Pirotta, E., Edwards, E.W.J., New, L. and Thompson, P.M. (2018) Central place foragers and moving stimuli: A hidden-state model to discriminate the processes affecting movement, Journal of Animal Ecology, 87, 1116– 1125.

264. Pirotta, E., Katzner, T., Miller, T.A., Duerr, A.E., Braham, M.A. and New, L. (2018) State-space modelling of the flight behaviour of a soaring bird provides new insights to migratory strategies, Functional Ecology, 32, 2205– 2215.

265. Pirotta, E., Mangel, M., Costa, D.P., Mate, B., Goldbogen, J.A., Palacios, D.M., Hückstädt, L.A., McHuron, E. A., Schwarz, L. and New, L. (2018) A Dynamic State Model of Migratory Behavior and Physiology to Assess the Consequences of Environmental Variation and Anthropogenic Disturbance on Marine Vertebrates, The American Naturalist, 191, 2, E40-E56.

266. Pirotta, E., New, L. and Marcoux, M. (2018) Modelling beluga habitat use and baseline exposure to shipping traffic to design effective protection against prospective industrialization in the Canadian Arctic, Aquatic Conservation-Marine And Freshwater Ecosystems, 28, 713– 722.

267. Power, B. and Reid, G. C. (2018) Decision support for firm performance by real options analytics, Managerial and Decision Economics, 39, 1, 56-64.

268. Prabakar, D., Manimudi, V. T., Suvetha K, S., Sampath, S., Mahapatra, D. M., Rajendran, K. and Pugazhendhi, A. (2018) Advanced biohydrogen production using pretreated industrial waste: Outlook and prospects, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 96, 306-324.

269. Prendergast, A. M. and McGlacken, G. P. (2018) Transition metal mediated C–H activation of 2-pyrones, 2-pyridones, 2-coumarins and 2-quinolones, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018, 44, 6068-6082.

270. Prendergast, A. M., Zhang, Z., Lin, Z. and McGlacken, G. P. (2018) Mechanistic studies on the palladium-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenative coupling of 4-phenoxy-2-coumarins: Experimental and computational insights, Dalton Transactions, 47, 17, 6049-6053.

271. Pukšec, T., Leahy, P., Foley, A., Markovska, N. and Duić, N. (2018) Sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems 2016, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 82, 1685-1690.

272. Pullens, J. W. M., Sottocornola, M., Kiely, G., Gianelle, D. and Rigon, R. (2018) Assessment of the water and energy budget in a peatland catchment of the alps using the process based GEOtop hydrological model, Journal of Hydrology, 563, 195-210.

273. Purnell, M. A., Donoghue, P. J. C., Gabbott, S. E., McNamara, M. E., Murdock, D. J. E. and Sansom, R. S. (2018) Experimental analysis of soft-tissue fossilization: Opening the black box, Palaeontology, 61, 3, 317-323.

274. Qasim, M., Oxley, L. & McLaughlin, E. (2018) Genuine Savings as a Test of New Zealand Weak Sustainability, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-39.

275. Qiu, C., Zhu, D., Ciais, P., Guenet, B., Krinner, G., Peng, S., Aurela, M., Bernhofer, C., Brümmer, C., Bret-Harte, S., Chu, H., Chen, J., Desai, A.R., Dušek, J., Euskirchen, E., Fortuniak, K., Flanagan, L.B., Friborg, T., Grygoruk, M., Gogo, S., Grünwald, T., Hansen, B.U., Holl, D., Humphreys, E., Hurkuck, M., Kiely, G., Klatt, J., Kutzbach, L., Largeron, C., Laggoun-Défarge, F., Lund, M., Lafleur, P.M., Li, X., Mammarella, I., Merbold, L., Nilsson, M.B., Olejnik, J., Ottosson-Löfvenius, M., Oechel, W., Parmentier, F.-J.W., Peichl, M., Pirk, N., Peltola, O., Pawlak, W., Rasse, D., Rinne, J., Shaver, G., Schmid, H.P., Sottocornola, M., Steinbrecher, R., Sachs, T., Urbaniak, M., Zona, D., and Ziemblinska, K. (2018) ORCHIDEE-PEAT (revision 4596), a model for northern peatland CO2, water, and energy fluxes on daily to annual scales, Geoscientific Model Development, 11, 2, 497-519.

276. Quinn, J. A., Nyhan, M. M., Navarro, C., Coluccia, D., Bromley, L. and Luengo-Oroz, M. (2018) Humanitarian applications of machine learning with remote-sensing data: Review and case study in refugee settlement mapping, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376, 2128.

277. Quirk, L., Matos, J., Murphy, J. and Pakrashi, V. (2018) Visual inspection and bridge management, Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 14, 3, 320-332.

278. Rahme, K., Minassian, G., Sarkis, M., Nakhl, M., El Hage, R., Souaid, E.,Holmes, J.D. and Ghanem, E. (2018) Assessment of charged AuNPs: From synthesis to innate immune recognition, Journal of Nanomaterials, 2018, 9301912.

279. Rajendran K. and Forgacs G. (2018) Biogas from Extremophiles, In: Sani R., Krishnaraj Rathinam N. (Editors), Extremophilic Microbial Processing of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels, Value-Added Products, and Usable Power, Springer, Cham , pp, 97-110.

280. Rajendran K., Sudharsan Varma V., Mahapatra D.M. and Kondusamy D. (2018) Economics of Solid Waste Management, In: Singhania R., Agarwal R., Kumar R. and Sukumaran R. (Editors), Waste to Wealth, Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, Springer, Singapore, pp, 259-275.

281. Rajendran, K., Drielak, E., Sudarshan Varma, V., Muthusamy, S. and Kumar, G. (2018) Updates on the pretreatment of lignocellulosic feedstocks for bioenergy production–a review, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, 8, 2, 471-483.

282. Rajendran, K., Surendra, K.C., Tomberlin J.K. and Khanal S.K. (2018) Chapter 22 - Insect-Based Biorefinery for Bioenergy and Bio-Based Products, In: T. Bhaskar, A. Pandey, S.V. Mohan, D.-J. Lee and S.K. Khanal (Editors), Waste Biorefinery, Elsevier, pp, 657-669.

283. Ramakers, J. J. C., Cobben, M. M. P., Bijma, P., Reed, T. E., Visser, M. E. and Gienapp, P. (2018) Maternal effects in a wild songbird are environmentally plastic but only marginally alter the rate of adaptation, American Naturalist, 191, 5, E144-E158.

284. Reen, F. J., McGlacken, G. P. and O’Gara, F. (2018) The expanding horizon of alkyl quinolone signalling and communication in polycellular interactomes, FEMS Microbiology Letters, 365, 9, fny076.

285. Reichert, M.S. and Höbel, G. (2018) Phenotypic integration and the evolution of signal repertoires: A case study of treefrog acoustic communication, Ecology and Evolution, 8, 3410-3429.

286. Repar, L. A., Onakuse, S., Bogue, J. and Afonso, A. (2018) Is it all about the money? Extent, reasons and triggers for side-selling in Malawi’s paprika supply chain, International Journal on Food System Dynamics, 9, 1, 38-53.

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287. Repar, L. A., Onakuse, S., Bogue, J. and Afonso, A. (2018) Key challenges in Malawi’s paprika supply chain: New insights into contract farming, Development in Practice, 28, 2, 227-241.

288. Roba, K. T., O’Connor, T. P., Belachew, T. and O’Brien, N. M. (2018) Concurrent iron and zinc deficiencies in lactating mothers and their children 6–23 months of age in two agro-ecological zones of rural Ethiopia, European Journal of Nutrition, 57, 2, 655-667.

289. Rodriguez-Delgado, C., Bergillos, R. J., Ortega-Sánchez, M. and Iglesias, G. (2018) Protection of gravel-dominated coasts through wave farms: Layout and shoreline evolution, Science of the Total Environment, 636, 1541-1552.

290. Rodriguez-Delgado, C., Bergillos, R. J., Ortega-Sánchez, M. and Iglesias, G. (2018) Wave farm effects on the coast: The alongshore position, Science of the Total Environment, 640-641, 1176-1186.

291. Romano, S., Jackson, S. A., Patry, S. and Dobson, A. D. W. (2018) Extending the “one strain many compounds” (OSMAC) principle to marine microorganisms, Marine Drugs, 16, 7, 244.

292. Roy, S. (2018) The Use of Economic Analysis of Law in the Context of Environmental Regulations, Global Jurist, 18, 2, 20170019.

293. Rudtanatip, T., Lynch, S. A., Wongprasert, K. and Culloty, S. C. (2018) Assessment of the effects of sulfated polysaccharides extracted from the red seaweed Irish moss Chondrus crispus on the immune-stimulant activity in mussels Mytilus spp., Fish and Shellfish Immunology, 75, 284-290.

294. Ryall, Á. (2018) Challenges and Opportunities for Irish Planning and Environmental Law, Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal 25, 3, 104-111.

295. Ryall, A. (2018) Enforcing the environmental impact assessment directive in Ireland: Evolution of the standard of judicial review, Transnational Environmental Law, 7, 3, 515-534.

296. Ryall, Á. (2018) Report for Ireland: Flexibility with regard to meeting EU regulatory objectives and requirements, Avosetta Group of EU Environmental Law Experts, Bremen.

297. Sage, C. (2018) Agro-food systems. In: N. Castree, M. Hulme and J. Proctor (Editors), Companion to Environmental Studies, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, pp, 486-490.

298. Sampaio, P. S., Soares, A., Castanho, A., Almeida, A. S., Oliveira, J. and Brites, C. (2018) Optimization of rice amylose determination by NIR-spectroscopy using PLS chemometrics algorithms, Food Chemistry, 242, 196-204.

299. San Cristóbal, J.R., Carral, L., Diaz, E., Fraguela, J.A. and Iglesias, G. (2018) Complexity and Project Management: A General Overview, Complexity, 2018, 4891286.

300. Sánchez-Retuerta, C., Suaréz-López, P. and Henriques, R. (2018) Under a new light: Regulation of light-dependent pathways by non-coding RNAs, Frontiers in Plant Science, 9, 962.

301. Saravanan, A. P., Mathimani, T., Deviram, G., Rajendran, K. and Pugazhendhi, A. (2018) Biofuel policy in India: A review of policy barriers in sustainable marketing of biofuel, Journal of Cleaner Production, 193, 734-747.

302. Semenova, O., Lightbody, G., O’Toole, J. M., Boylan, G., Dempsey, E. and Temko, A. (2018) Coupling between mean blood pressure and EEG in preterm neonates is associated with reduced illness severity scores, PLoS ONE, 13, 6, e0199587.

303. Shanahan, R. M., Hickey, A., Reen, F. J., O’Gara, F. and McGlacken, G. P. (2018) Synthesis of benzofuroquinolines via phosphine-free direct arylation of 4-phenoxyquinolines in air, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018, 44, 6140-6149.

304. Shanmugaprakash, M., Venkatachalam, S., Rajendran, K. and Pugazhendhi, A. (2018) Biosorptive removal of ZN(II) ions by Pongamia oil cake (Pongamia pinnata) in batch and fixed-bed column studies using response surface methodology and artificial neural network, Journal of Environmental Management, 227, 216-228.

305. Shendkar, J. H., Jadhav, V. V., Shinde, P. V., Mane, R. S. and O’Dwyer, C. (2018) Hybrid composite polyaniline-nickel hydroxide electrode materials for supercapacitor applications, Heliyon, 4, 9, e00801.

306. Sheng, W. and Lewis, A. (2018) Power takeoff optimization to maximize wave energy conversions for oscillating water column devices, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 43, 1, 36-47.

307. Siddiqui, T. A. J., Ghule, B. G., Shaikh, S., Shinde, P. V., Gunturu, K. C., Zubaidha, P. K., Yun, J.M., O’Dwyer, C., Mane, R.S. and Kim, K. H. (2018) Metal-free heterogeneous and mesoporous biogenic graphene-oxide nanoparticle-catalyzed synthesis of bioactive benzylpyrazolyl coumarin derivatives, RSC Advances, 8, 31, 17373-17379.

308. Sivamani, S., Selvakumar, S., Rajendran, K. and Muthusamy, S. (2018) Artificial neural network–genetic algorithm-based optimization of biodiesel production from Simarouba glauca, Biofuels, 1-9.

309. Sjåfjell, B. and Lynch Fannon, I. (2018) Corporate Sustainability, In: B. Sjåfjell and I. Lynch Fannon (Editors), Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp, 305-325.

310. Sjåfjell, B. and Lynch Fannon, I. (2018) Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

311. Stewart, M. G., Ginger, J. D., Henderson, D. J. and Ryan, P. C. (2018) Fragility and climate impact assessment of contemporary housing roof sheeting failure due to extreme wind, Engineering Structures, 171, 464-475.

312. Sun C., Xia A., Liao Q., Kumar G., Murphy J.D. (2018) Biomass and Bioenergy: Current State, In: Q. Liao, J. Chang, C. Herrmann and A. Xia (Editors) Bioreactors for Microbial Biomass and Energy Conversion, Green Energy and Technology, Springer, Singapore, pp, 3-37.

313. Sun, C., Xia, A., Liao, Q., Fu, Q., Huang, Y., Zhu, X., Wei, P., Lin, R. and Murphy, J. D. (2018) Improving production of volatile fatty acids and hydrogen from microalgae and rice residue: Effects of physicochemical characteristics and mix ratios, Applied Energy, 230, 1082-1092.

314. Tabassum, M. R., Xia, A. and Murphy, J. D. (2018) Biomethane production from various segments of brown seaweed, Energy Conversion and Management, 174, 855-862.

315. Thery, T., O’Callaghan, Y., O’Brien, N. and Arendt, E. K. (2018) Optimisation of the antifungal potency of the amidated peptide H-orn-orn-trp-trp-NH2 against food contaminant, International Journal of Food Microbiology, 265, 40-48.

316. Thibaut, E., Eakins, J., Vos, S. and Scheerder, J. (2018) The determinants and income elasticities of direct and indirect sports expenditure categories, European Sport Management Quarterly, 18, 2, 175-192.

317. Torres-Fuentes, C., Pastor-Cavada, E., Cano, R., Kandil, D., Shanahan, R., Juan, R., Shaban, H., McGlacken, G.P. and Schellekens, H. (2018) Quinolones modulate ghrelin receptor signaling: Potential for a novel small molecule scaffold in the treatment of cachexia, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 19, 6, 1605.

318. Trowbridge, C. D., Little, C., Plowman, C. Q., Ferrenburg, L. S., Resk, H. M., Stirling, P., Davenport, J. and McAllen, R. (2018) Recent changes in shallow subtidal fauna with new invertebrate records in Europe’s first marine reserve, Lough Hyne, Biology and Environment, 118B, 1, 29-44.

319. Tucker, M.A. et al. (2018) Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements, Science 359, 6374, 466-469.

320. Tunwal, M., Mulchrone, K. F. and Meere, P. A. (2018) Quantitative characterization of grain shape: Implications for textural maturity analysis and discrimination between depositional environments, Sedimentology, 65, 5, 1761-1776.

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