Recent Publications
2023
Butschek, F., Peters, J., Remmers, T., Murphy, J, Cummins, V. & Wheeler, A.J. (2023). Geospatial dimensions of the Renewable Energy Transition — the importance of prioritisation. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 100713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2023.100713
Coughlan, M., Trafford, A., Corrales, S., Donohue, S., Wheeler, A.J. & Long, M. (2023) Geological and geotechnical characterisation of soft Holocene marine sediments: a case study from the north Irish Sea. Engineering Geology, 313, 106980 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2022.106980
Michel, G., Coughlan, M., Arosio, R., Emery, A.R., Wheeler, A.J. (2023). Stratigraphic and palaeo-geomorphological evidence for the glacial-deglacial history of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet in the north-western Irish Sea, Quaternary Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107909.
2022
Appah, J.K.M., Killeen, O., Lim, A., O'Riordan, R., O'Reilly, L., Wheeler, A.J. (2022). Accumulation of marine litter in cold-water coral habitats: A comparative study of two Irish Special Areas of Conservation, NE Atlantic. Marine Pollution Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113764
de Oliviera, L.M.C., de Oliveira, P.A.., Lim, A., Wheeler, A.J. & Conti, L. (2022). Developing mobile applications with augmented reality and 3D photogrammetry for visualisation of cold-water coral reefs. Geosciences 12, 356. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12100356
Hogan, R.I., Hopkins, K, Yessop, C. Wheeler, A.J., Allcock, A.L. (2022).
Homoplasy and incongruence in Pennatulacea phylogenies highlight a need for systematic revision.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution,
178, 107630.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107630
O'Reilly, L., Fentimen, R., Butschek, F.,
Titschack, J., Lim A.,
Moore, N.,
O'Connor, O.J.,
Appah, J.,
H
arris, K.,
Vennemann, T., W
heeler, A.J. (2022). Environmental forcing by submarine canyons: Evidence between two closely situated cold-water coral mounds (Porcupine Bank Canyon and Western Porcupine Bank, NE Atlantic), Marine Geology, 454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106930.
O'Reilly, L., Lim A., Titschack, J., Moore, N., O'Connor, O.J., Appah, J., Fentimen, R., Butschek, F., Harris, K., Vennemann, T., Wheeler, A.J. (2022). Using novel methods to track British and Irish Ice Sheet dynamics since the Late Pleistocene, along the west Porcupine Bank, NE Atlantic. Quaternary Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107463
Summers, G.
, Lim, A., & Wheeler, A.J. (2022).
A characterization of benthic curents from seabed bathymetry
: an object-based image analysis of cold-water coral mounds, Remote Sensing, 14, 4731.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14194731
2021
de Oliveira, L.M., Lim, A., Conti, L.A. & Wheeler, A.J. (2021). 3D classification of cold-water coral reefs: A comparison of classification techniques for 3D reconstructions of cold-water coral reefs and seabed. Frontiers in Marine Science. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.640713
Devoy, R., Wheeler, A.J., Brunt, B. & Hickey, K. (2021). The coastal environment: physical systems, processes and patterns. In: (eds R. Devoy, V. Cummins, B. Brunt, D. Bartlett & S. Kandrot)
The Coastal Atlas of Ireland, Cork University Press. p. 12-44.
Lim, A., Wheeler, A.J., Conti, L.A. (2021). Cold-water coral habitat mapping: trends and developments in acquisition and processing methods.
Geosciences.
doi: 10.3390/
geosciences
11010009
Price, D.M., Lim, A., Callaway, A., Wheeler, A.J., Lo Iacono, C., Jensen, A. & Huvenne, V.A.I. (2021). Fine-scale heterogeneity of a cold-water coral reef structure and its influence on the distribution of associated taxa.
Frontiers in Marine Science
.
doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.556313
Summers, G.; Lim, A.; Wheeler, A.J. A Scalable, Supervised Classification of Seabed Sediment Waves Using an Object-Based Image Analysis Approach.
Remote Sens.
(2021)
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13
, 2317.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13122317
Wheeler, A.J. (2021). Sea levels and Ireland’s ancient seabeds. In: (eds R. Devoy, V. Cummins, B. Brunt, D. Bartlett & S. Kandrot)
The Coastal Atlas of Ireland, Cork University Press. p.135-136
Wheeler, A.J. & Lim, A. (2021). Cold-water corals, reefs and carbonate mounds. In: (eds R. Devoy, V. Cummins, B. Brunt, D. Bartlett & S. Kandrot)
The Coastal Atlas of Ireland, Cork University Press. p.18-20.
Wheeler, A.J., Lim, A., Butschek, F., O’Reilly, L. & O’Driscoll, P. (2021). The “Little MonSta” deep-sea benthic, precision deployable, multi-sensor and sampling lander array.
Sensors, 21
, 3355. doi: 10.3390/s21103355
2020
Appah, J.K.M., Lim, A., Harris, K., O’Riordan, R., O’Reilly, L. and Wheeler, A.J., (2020). Are non-reef habitats as important to benthic diversity and composition as coral reef and rubble habitats in submarine canyons? Analysis of controls on benthic megafauna distribution in the Porcupine Bank Canyon, NE Atlantic. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.571820
Barrett, N.J., Hogan, R.I., Allcock, A.L., Molodtsova, T., Hopkins, K., Wheeler, A.J. & Yesson, C. (2020). Phylogenetics and mitogenome organisation in black corals (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Antipatharia): An order wide survey inferred from complete antipatharian mitochondrial genomes.
Frontiers in Marine Science, 7:440
.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00440
Coughlan, M., Tóth, Z. Van Landeghem, K., McCarron, S. & Wheeler, A.J. (2020).
Formational history of the Wicklow Trough: a marine transgressed tunnel valley revealing ice flow velocity and retreat rates for the largest ice stream draining the late-Devensian British-Irish Ice Sheet.Journal of Quaternary Science, 35,907-919.
ISSN 0267
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8179. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3234
Fentimen, R, Lim, A., Foubert, A, Ruggesberg, A., Wheeler, A.J., Van Rooij, D. & Foubert, A. (2020). Impact of bottom currents on benthic foraminiferal assemblages in a cold-water coral environment: the Moira Mounds (NE Atlantic). Marine Micropalaeontology, 154,
101799.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.101799
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Lim, A., Wheeler, A.J., Price, D., O’Reilly, L., Harris, K. & Conti, C. (2020). Influence of benthic currents on cold-water coral habitats in the upper Porcupine Bank Canyon, NE Atlantic: a combined benthic monitoring and 3D
photogrammetric investigation.NatureScience Reports(2020) 10:19433. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76446-y
Peters, J.L., Benetti, S., Dunlop, P. & Wheeler, A.J. (2020).
Sedimentary and foraminiferal records of Late Quaternary environmental change west of Ireland and implications for the last British-Irish Ice Sheet
. Journal of Quaternary Science.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3208
Peters, J.J., Butschek, F., O’Connell, R., Cummins, V., Murphy, J. & Wheeler, A.J. (2020). Geological seabed stability model for informing Irish offshore renewable energy opportunities.
Advances in Geosciences,
54
,
55-56
. ISSN 1680-7340
Peters, J.L., Remmers, T., Wheeler, A.J., Murphy, J. & Cummins, V. (2020
). A systematic review and meta-analysis of GIS use to reveal trends in offshore wind energy research and offer insights on best practices.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.109916
Tóth, Z., McCarron, S., Wheeler, A.J., Wenau, S., Davis, S., Lim, A. & Spiess, V. (2020). Geomorphological and seismostratigraphic evidence for multidirectional polyphase glaciation of the northern Celtic Sea.
Journal of Quaternary Science.
ISSN 0267
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8179. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3189
2019
Boolukos, C., Lim, A., Wheeler, A. & Ramsay, R. (2019).
Cold-water corals in decline – a temporal (4 year) species abundance and biodiversity appraisal of complete photomosaiced cold-water coral reef on the Irish Margin
. Deep-Sea Research Part I,146, 44-54.
ISSN:09670637
Conti, L.A, Lim., A. & Wheeler, A.J. (2019).
High-resolution mapping of a cold-water coral mound.
Nature Scientific Reports
,
9, 1016
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37725-x
Coughlan, M, Wheeler, A.J., Dorschel, B., Long, M., Doherty, P. & Mörz, T. (2019). Stratigraphic model of the Quaternary sediments of the Western Irish Sea Mud Belt from core, geotechnical and acoustic data.
Geomarine Letters https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-019-00569-z
Hogan, R.I., Hopkins, K., Wheeler, A.J., Allcock, A.L. & Yesson, C. (2019).
Novel diversity in mitochondrial genomes of deep-sea Pennatulacea
(Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Octocorallia).
Mitochondrial DNA Part A
. doi10.1080/24701394.2019.1634699.