Words cannot describe how happy I am to hold this PhD parchment—a dream come true! Grateful for all the support, especially my parents, proud to make them proud, and my PhD supervisor (Mapalljohn) for putting up with me for four long years. Trinity Geography School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin

Interesting & relevant perspectives here: NPWS Nature Conservation School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin Peat Hub Ireland LIFE IP Peatlands and People LIFE IP Wild Atlantic Nature Pippa Hackett Malcolm Noonan FarmPEAT Project @Dept_ECC Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine BallydanganBog Shanakyle Bog EIP @scohaboy EPA Catchments

Our first article from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ireland-funded WetPeat project examines ecohydrological models in determining strategies for peatland restoration and evaluating post-intervention development over time. You can read it at: lnkd.in/eDFUFJcM

New research reveals that Irish peat soils cover 13% more area than previously thought, playing a key role in GHG absorption & environmental sustainability! Read more about this groundbreaking study by Trinity College Dublin, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway, and Queen's University Belfast 🎓. 🔗tcd.ie/e3/news/latest…

New research on midlands raised bogs finds: 2,460 ha of cutaway bog are in SACs (protected areas). Peat extraction (cutaways & cutovers) in the midlands cover 119,000 ha, 70% higher than what is being reported for ALL peatlands in 🇮🇪nature.com/articles/s4159…

PI's in Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio recruiting grad students for Fall 2025 - this is your reminder to advertise broadly! Enter your position info here: forms.gle/MHFCyFhfbcqn69…… Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) - share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Watch the launch of Copernicus EU #Sentinel2C on #VV24, the last Vega flight from Europe’s Spaceport, live on #ESAwebTV on 4 September from 02:30 BST/03:30 CEST (liftoff scheduled at 02:50 BST/03:50 CEST). 📺 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia… esa.int/Applications/O…

Delighted to see Charmaine Cruz's final Paper from her PhD published. Trinity Geography School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin BEC Consultants Jerome O'Connell Proveye Insight Research Ireland Centre link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Great to present our research using Google #EarthEngine, at the GeoforGood Summit in Dublin this morning. Wahaj Habib Google Earth Rebecca Moore Trinity College Dublin Trinity Geography School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin SmartBog_IRL EPA Research News earthoutreachonair.withgoogle.com/events/geoforg…

Interested in rescue of historical river flow records? Join us for the IAHS_AISH 𝗥𝗘𝗛𝗬𝗗𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘 workshop this 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟰 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟰:𝟬𝟬 𝗖𝗘𝗧. I'll be presenting insights from our hydrometric data rescue project in Ireland: tuwien.zoom.us/j/62248444417

Modeling is great...but still quite inaccurate, particularly at smaller scale, ie <1 hectare, which is the scale many important habitats exist these days. This long-established sessile oak woods is noted as scrub, and the birch woods across the valley isn't picked up at all.

Every year since 2019, the Embassy along with Marine Institute have supported the attendance of an Emerging Leader Arctic Frontiers - read the report for 2025 from Dr Wahaj Habib on our website now: ireland.ie/en/norway/oslo… Network of Arctic Researchers in Ireland (NARI) APECS

Land use change requires longterm supports for farmers. This article suggests that Irish authorities are considering offering farmers a lump sum & supports over 15yr cycles to manage water tables for carbon i.e. "rewetting." This would be a breakthrough farmersjournal.ie/news/news/farm…

How does degradation alter the spatial variability of peat properties? Is it linked with ecosystem homogenisation? Check out our new paper "Flatlining fens?..." #PeatTwitter tinyurl.com/35ask22p

Join us at Trinity College Dublin! The ECO-WADE project is looking for postdoctoral researcher to work with Wahaj Habib and I on mapping peatlands at European scale linkedin.com/posts/johnconn…

Excited to be attending ESA Living Planet Symposium #LPS2025 next week in Vienna to share some of the results from our EPA Research News funded ICONEEx project. Grateful to Trinity Association & Trust for the travel support, it was made possible thanks to the Trinity Affinity Credit Card.

I'm thrilled to see this paper out, which I co-led with Chelsea Clifford, and featuring input from loads of excellent co-authors. It's our interdisciplinary perspective on ditches; what they do, why they matter, and how we should look after them. nature.com/articles/s4324…

And just like the good old Dublin Bus, you wait ages for one, and then two come along at the same time! Two of the papers I contributed to over the past year were published this week: 1. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 2. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin