School of Environmental Sciences

Seminars are held in Room G1117 (Seminar Room) in the Centre for Coastal and Marine Research on Wednesday afternoons (3pm) unless specified otherwise. Students, staff and outside visitors are all very welcome to attend.

Please e-mail seminar series organiser Dr Sara Benetti if you require any further information.

Semester 2 / 2010-11

26.01.11
Title: Leatherback turtles, jellyfish and climate change

Leatherback turtles are seasonal visitors to Irish waters travelling thousands of kilometres from their tropical breeding sites to feed on large aggregations of jellyfish in our productive temperate waters. Using a combination of satellite tracking, aerial surveys and remote sensing we are now closer than ever before to understanding the climatic factors, behaviours and prey species that drive these epic migrations.

Speaker: Jonathan Houghton
Organisation: Queen’s University Belfast

9.02.11
Title: Linking short-term studies with long-term evolution of coastal dunes: examples from Prince Edward Island (Canada) and Magilligan Point (Northern Ireland)

This talk examines what we know, what we do not know, and what we need to know in order to predict coastal dunes evolution, and thus to provide managers and planners with an appropriate set of tools for decision-making.

Speaker: Irene Delgado-Fernandez
Organisation: University of Ulster

23.02.11
Title: Submarine landslides: triggers, processes and deposits
Speaker: Aggeliki Georgiopoulou
Organisation: University College Dublin

9.03.11
Title: The Freshwater Pearl Mussel – Can it be saved from extinction?
Speaker: Evelyn Moorkens
Organisation: Consultant/Associated with UCD

23.03.11
Title: The world of barrier islands: newly discovered forms and processes
Speaker: Andrew Cooper Organisation: University of Ulster

Research Seminars

Title	Speaker	Institution	Date