Dr Andrew Pilant
Andrew (Drew) Pilant, Ph.D. is a research geoscientist with the United States Environmental Protection Agency. He has devoted his career to applying earth observation, remote sensing, geospatial analysis and geographic information systems to solving environmental problems, quantifying ecosystem services, and mapping land cover, PFAS chemicals, animal feeding operations and mosquito habitat. His passions include promoting…
Read MoreDavid Moecher
David P. Moecher is the Alumni Endowed Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. His field-based research in North and South America, Australia, and northern Europe contributes to understanding the linkages among those continents over one billion years of Earth history. Moecher is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the former…
Read MoreBrenda McNally
Dr Brenda McNally is a Research Fellow at the Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin studying citizens’ views and media use around climate actions in Ireland. Her research sheds light on the political, ethical and cultural dimensions of climate change and contributes to communications practice aimed at building a just transition. As a Fulbright-GSI Scholar,…
Read MoreGavin Kenny
Dr Gavin Kenny is a geologist who specialises in the study of impact craters. Dr Kenny received his Bachelors Degree and PhD from Trinity College Dublin before moving to Stockholm, Sweden in 2016. He is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellow at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. As a Fulbright-GSI Scholar at the…
Read MoreW. Berry Lyons
Professor W. Berry Lyons is a Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at the Ohio State University. His research interests include the rates and controls of chemical weathering, the role of human activities on water quality, and the impact of climate change on the biogeochemistry of…
Read MoreNancy Riggs
Dr Nancy Riggs is Professor of Geology in the School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability at Northern Arizona University. Her research interests center around the relation between volcanoes and plate tectonics and include using the detrital signature of volcanic arcs to understand the initiation of subduction. She will be in residence in the discipline…
Read MoreAggeliki Georgiopoulou
Dr Aggeliki Georgiopoulou is a Lecturer in Sedimentology at UCD. As a Fulbright-GSI Geoscience Scholar, Aggeliki will visit the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center in Massachusetts to investigate in detail the structures, morphology and lithologies of submarine landslide scars using diving equipment video data and Structure-for-Motion Techniques.
Read MoreSaskia Ryan
Ms Saskia Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin. Saskia will undertake her Fulbright GSI Geoscience Award research at the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology of Harvard University. She will use a geochemical approach to study ancient mobility in Ireland by comparing baseline environmental signatures to those preserved in archaeological human…
Read MoreHelen Lewis
Dr Helen Lewis is a geoarchaeologist who currently focuses on Southeast Asian archaeology (mostly cave sites), and am an Associate Professor at University College Dublin School of Archaeology. Her Fulbright-GSI Award research at the University of Washington investigated the place of geoarchaeology in Cultural Resources Management (CRM) archaeology in the United States and Europe. …
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