Welcome to the Ecology & Evolution blog written by members of the School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

We have very broad interests, and we hope to share some of these with you on this blog. Our members work in such diverse fields as plant-pollinator networks, food-webs, ecosystem stability, parasitology, plant systematics, marine biology, morphological evolution, biogeography, palaeontology, behavioural ecology, biodiversity research, and developmental biology. For more information on our Principal Investigators and their research interests, see the School’s Evolutionary Biology & Ecology page.

We intend to post bi-monthly during the college term, on topics including reviews of recent papers and books, press releases for new papers published by members of the group, abstracts from seminars and conferences, photographs from exotic (and not so exotic!) fieldwork locations, discussions on controversial topics in Ecology and Evolution, and more.

We hope you enjoy reading our posts as much as we enjoyed writing them, and we encourage you to leave comments and join the debate!

 

Current Editors

The current Editors of the blog are Josua Seitz and Niamh Mc Cartan.

Niamh is a 3rd year PhD  student in the Zoology Department working in the in the Sick Water Flea Lab led by Dr. Pepijn Luijckx. She studies the effect of extreme temperature changes (heatwaves and cold snaps) on disease using the Daphnia-Ordospora system. 

Josua is a 1st year PhD candidate in the Botany Department working with Prof. Silvia Caldararu on modelling carbon dynamics in grasslands within QUINCY, a land surface model. 

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