European Commission's Science for Environment Policy - Issue 171 - Oct 2009, featured an article by Dr. Jerry Murphy, Beatrice Smyth and Catherine O'Brien titled "Grass biomethane could be biofuel solution for Ireland" 

The Environmental Research Institute, UCC Research Office and Enterprise Ireland are co-hosting a workshop focused on writing competitive EU-FP7 applications on 30 October 2009 in the Windle Lecture Theatre, UCC. 

Land abandonment is as big a threat to the ecology of upland areas as overexploitation and EU subsidy driven over-stocking was in the recent past according to a research group in UCC who have been examining links between upland biodiversity, farming practices and the socio-economic driving forces behind land use change, on the Iveragh Peninsula, Kerry.
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The UCC atmospheric simulation chamber run by Dr John Wenger and Dr Dean Venables (both of the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Research Institute) has recently become part of the EU-funded EUROCHAMP project.
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The Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) to the Government, Professor Patrick Cunningham, has appointed nine distinguished Irish scientists to his Panel of Experts.

Congratulations to PhD student, Beatrice Smyth who was joint winner of the Higher Education Authority/Irish Independent “Making an Impact” award.
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