School of Natural Sciences: Recent submissions
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Applying geogenic methods and decision-making tools to model radon at local and regional scales.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2023)Radon is an environmental health hazard for indoor environments, caves and underground mines exposure to which is related to an increased probability of developing lung cancer. Globally, radon is the second leading cause ... -
Heinrich Events and the British-Irish Ice Sheet: evidences of palaeoceanographic changes in the Rockall Trough
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2023)The Porcupine Bank is an offshore plateau connected to the Irish Shelf west of Ireland. Its western flank is affected by several water masses associated with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and other ... -
Persistency and genomic tools in forage grasses
Perennial ryegrass (PRG; Lolium perenne) is the most widely cultivated forage grass species in Ireland. Despite its widespread use, there have been meagre gains in the improvement of agronomically important traits, including ... -
Assessing the sustainability impacts of food sharing initiatives: User testing The Toolshed SIA
(2022)The food system is unsustainable and requires reconfiguration, however more data is required to assess the impacts of action which might contribute to a more sustainable food future. Responding to this, extensive research ... -
Restricted participation: Drivers, experiences and implications of disability stigma in Ethiopia
(2023)Background: Community-based inclusive development (CBID) acknowledges society’s critical role in supporting the active participation of persons with disabilities. However, research on how this approach relates to the ... -
Wanted Dead or Alive: Skeletal Structure Alteration of Cold-Water Coral Desmophyllum pertusum (Lophelia pertusa) from Anthropogenic Stressors
(2023)Ocean acidification (OA) has provoked changes in the carbonate saturation state that may alter the formation and structural biomineralisation of calcium carbonate exoskeletons for marine organisms. Biomineral production ... -
People and Nature in anthropogenic landscapes: an ecological perspective
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2023)Nature-based Solutions have been a popular research topic within the sustainability literature for last decade. Conceived of as a more sustainable alternative to engineered solutions, solutions founded in nature are promised ... -
Human pressure as an ecological force across scales and systems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Zoology, 2023)Historically, climate has been seen as the main driver of global vegetation patterns, but ecological paradigms have recently expanded to acknowledge human activity as a critical determinant of species biogeography. Today, ... -
Capture heats up sharks
(2022)Catch-and-release fishing is an important component of ecotourism industries and scientific research worldwide, but its total impact on animal physiology, health and survival is understudied for many species of fishes, ... -
Endothermy makes fishes faster but does not expand their thermal niche
(Functional Ecology, 2021-06-30)Regional endothermy has evolved several times in marine fishes, and two competing hypotheses are generally proposed to explain the evolutionary drivers behind this trait: thermal niche expansion and elevated cruising speeds. ... -
Multiple fluorescence approaches to identify rapid changes in microbial indicators at karst springs
(2023)Karst springs are globally important for drinking water supply but are often also exceptionally vulnerable to contamination. Such springs usually exhibit strong variation in microbial water quality in sharp response to ... -
Hard borders and soft agreements: Evaluating governance within the Global Compact for Migration
(Routledge, 2023)Welcomed as a milestone in the governance of transnational migration, the adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration marked a significant step forward in international cooperation on migration ... -
Metasomatism of the Kaapvaal Craton during Cretaceous intraplate magmatism revealed by combined zircon U-Pb isotope and trace element analysis
(2021)The origins of the mica-amphibole(K-richterite)-rutile-ilmenite-diopside (MARID) and the, presumably related, phlogopite-K-richterite-peridotite (PKP) mantle xenolith suites remain enigmatic. For instance, it is unclear ... -
Depth-dependent peridotite-melt interaction and the origin of variable silica in the cratonic mantle
(2021)Peridotites from the thick roots of Archaean cratons are known for their compositional diversity, whose origin remains debated. We report thermodynamic modelling results for reactions between peridotite and ascending mantle ... -
A Thermodynamic Model for the Subsolidus Evolution and Melting of Peridotite
(2021)We present a structural update to the thermodynamic model for calculating peridotite phase relations and melt compositions at 0·01 to 60 kbar and from 600 °C to the peridotite liquidus in the system K2O–Na2O–CaO–FeO–MgO– ... -
Lake Ohrid?s tephrochronological dataset reveals 1.36?Ma of Mediterranean explosive volcanic activity
(2021)Tephrochronology relies on the availability of the stratigraphical, geochemical and geochronological datasets of volcanic deposits, three preconditions which are both often only fragmentary accessible. This study presents ... -
Community established best practice recommendations for tephra studies?from collection through analysis
(2022)Tephra is a unique volcanic product with an unparalleled role in understanding past eruptions, long-term behavior of volcanoes, and the effects of volcanism on climate and the environment. Tephra deposits also provide ... -
No evidence for tephra in Greenland from the historic eruption of Vesuvius in 79?CE: implications for geochronology and paleoclimatology
(2022)Volcanic fallout in polar ice sheets provides important opportunities to date and correlate ice-core records as well as to investigate the environmental impacts of eruptions. Only the geochemical characterization of volcanic ... -
Geochronology and glass geochemistry of major pleistocene eruptions in the Main Ethiopian Rift: Towards a regional tephrostratigraphy
(2022)The Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) is renowned as a focus of investigations into human origins. It is also the site of many large volcanic calderas, whose eruptions have spanned the timeframe of speciation, cultural innovation, ... -
Eruption frequency and magnitude in a geothermally active continental rift: The Bora-Baricha-Tullu Moye volcanic complex, Main Ethiopian Rift
(2022)Many Quaternary silicic volcanoes in the Main Ethiopian Rift pose a potential risk due to the poorly known eruptive histories of the volcanoes in combination with a high population density. In this study we provide new ...
