2009 Press Releases
17.06.2009
Dr Anne Oxbrough, Department of Zoology, Ecology and Plant Science (ZEPS), UCC has been awarded an INSPIRE International Mobility Fellowship Award by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET).
On completion of her current contract on the PLANFORBIO programme in December 2009, this grant will allow Anne to expand on work that she, and several other researchers, have been conducting on the PLANFORBIO and BIOFOREST research projects. Anne will travel to the University of Alberta, where she will work with Professor John Spence at the Spence Invertebrate Ecology Laboratory. The University of Alberta is among the top ten leading institutions for forest based research in North America, and Anne will use her time there to conduct invertebrate biodiversity surveys (using pitfall traps and litter extraction) in naturally generated mixed wood forests. Comparable field and laboratory investigations will be carried out here in Ireland during 2012 in mixed conifer/broadleaf plantations, when she will return to ZEPS/ERI at UCC under the supervision of Professor John O’Halloran.
Anne is a graduate of Plymouth University. She took her PhD at UCC and is currently working on the PLANFORBIO Forest research program under the direction of Professor John O’Halloran http://www.ucc.ie/en/planforbio/
Picture: Dr Anne Oxbrough
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