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25/02/201925/02/2019

A New Horizon for Nature

This week saw the first National Biodiversity Conference in Ireland at Dublin Castle – an incredible joint effort between the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Irish Forum on Natural Capital to engage people in nature. The conference aimed to get all relevant parties in the room to progress biodiversity conservation and restoration in Ireland.

Delegates at Dublin Castle for the New Horizons for Nature conference

The conference opened with a powerful short film by Crossing the Line Productions “This is Ireland” which set the tone for a fantastic two days.

20/02/201925/02/2019

One Thing For Nature

If you could do one thing for nature, what would it be?

Invent a new way of automatically cataloguing species? Put location trackers on every single individual of a threatened animal population? Start collecting DNA sequences of threatened species so we can de-extinct them, Jurassic Park style?

The answers I got to this question when I posed it to our Tuesday lunchtime group of PhD students, researchers, and academics, was far less sci-fi and much more pragmatic.

31/01/201927/03/2019

Trinity Descends on Galway

My first trip to Galway was eventful. A large delegation from TCD descended on Galway for the Irish Ecological Association’s ecology and evolution conference. Several PhD students, postdocs and professors from Trinity spoke about their research in short talks of either 5 or 10 minutes.

22/01/201918/02/2019

Irish Pollinator Research Network goes from strength to strength…

Following on from the successful meeting last year, we held our Second Annual Irish Pollinator Research Network Meeting on 18th January 2019. This year, 22 researchers from TCD, UCD, DCU, MU, TUD and QUB gathered at DCU’s Water Institute for 16 oral presentations and discussions about pollinator, pollination and pollen research currently underway in Ireland. Continue reading “Irish Pollinator Research Network goes from strength to strength…”

02/11/201818/10/2019

Exploring the One Health Initiative in the Irish context

Last week, the Zoology department hosted the first Irish One Health workshop, welcoming speakers and attendees from a range of disciplines. This gathering provided an opportunity to discuss the One Health initiative, which aims to solve world health problems through transdisciplinary collaboration, through a series of short presentations discussing various aspects of global health, and ample time for discussion between attendees, including representatives from the DAFM, EPA, HSE and AFBI.

Our own Dr Peter Stuart, who organised this workshop, gave a fascinating introduction to the concept of One Health, using the example of Hookworm in the American South during the 20^th century as proof that we need to work collaboratively to solve current health issues.

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05/10/201813/11/2018

From Worms to Wildfire: Natural Sciences at PROBE 2018

On the evening of Friday the 28^th of September, the event known as PROBE took place in Front Square. Part of European Researchers’ Night, PROBE was described by organisers as “a free public pop-up festival showcasing the diverse range of academic research taking place in Dublin”. No event on Dublin research would be complete without representatives from Zoology and Botany, so Eco Evo spoke to some of the researchers bringing parasitology, fire ecology, and pollinators to the people of Dublin. Continue reading “From Worms to Wildfire: Natural Sciences at PROBE 2018”