Marine and Coastal Environments

Training and Research in the Eastern Irish Sea (TRES) – Marine Institute Bright Sparks Initiative - Sept. 2006 Coordinator

U.K. Department of Trade and Industry, Strategic Environmental Assessment area 6: “Gas escape in the western Irish Sea (GWIS)” - 1st October 2004 to 31st January 2005. Coordinator

UCC President’s Strategic Funds: Raising Environmental Awareness at the local, regional and international level through Environmental Monitoring, - 2005-2007. Partner

European Regional Development Fund INTERREG IIIA: “Coastal Communities Network - towards Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) in the INTERREG Region (CoCoNet)” - 2003. Co-proposer

The Heritage Council: “The Development of a Bibliography of Heritage and Cultural studies Relating to the Coastal Zone” – 2002. Co-proposer

EU 5th Framework Programme: “A System of Hierarchical Monitoring Methods for Assessing Changes in the Biological and Physical State of Intertidal Areas (HIMOM)” - 2002-2005. PI

Irish Petroleum Infrastructure Programme (Porcupine Studies Group): “An Inventory of Geological & Environmental Data in the Porcupine Seabight & Adjacent Areas, NE Atlantic” -2001. Coordinator

Marine Institute: “Scoping Study to Examine the Feasibility of Installing a National Tide-gauge and Tidal Information Archiving Network” - 1999 Coordinator

Statoil Exploration (Ireland): “Phase I - Seabed Geotechnical and Biogeochemical Survey in the Eastern Rockall Trough” – 1999 Coordinator

Dúchas, The Heritage Service: “Geochemical Studies on the La Surveilliante Shipwreck Site, Bantry Bay” – 1999 Coordinator

“Biogeochemical and Engineering Analyses on Surface Sediment in Northern Porcupine Seabight, 52o18’N/12o57.5’W by 52o19.5’N/13o00’W: Site Investigation Report for Statoil Exploration (Ireland)” = Baseline environmental and geotechnical survey for Statoil Exploration (Ireland) Ltd. – 1999 Coordinator

“Environmental studies on the La Surveilliante Shipwreck Site, Bantry Bay” - Site Investigation Report for Duchas, The Heritage Service -1999 Coordinator

“Inventory of Benthic Samples from the Rockall Trough and Porcupine Seabight” - Desktop study for the Rockall Studies Group - 1998, PI