Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water

🎄Happy holidays from all of us at the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water! We’re grateful for your support this year and look forward to working together in 2025. Please note our offices will be closed, and accounts unmonitored, until Jan 2nd. See you in the New Year!

📢 The All Island Climate & Biodiversity Research Network is happy to share our final newsletter of 2024: https://lnkd.in/eYX49qRm ❓ In this issue, Dr Diarmuid Torney looks back on 2024 - dubbed "the year of elections" - what the results mean for action on the #climate and #biodiversity emergencies, and some key pressing research questions that now need to be addressed. 🌱 We highlight #AICBRN's call for an all-island research commons partnership to tackle the interlinked climate and biodiversity crises: https://lnkd.in/eS3rCuhe And we celebrate a diverse range of work, projects and achievements from some of our amazing members, including: 1. ‘Brink! 2024: A Year of Action’ by Gawain Morrison, Brink! 2. ‘Prison Talks: Bringing Climate Change Conversations Into Irish Prisons' by Dr Carla Mateus, Maynooth University 3. ‘Update on Climate Smart’ by Prof Anna Davies, Trinity College Dublin 4. ‘Tóchar Community Stories’ by Helen Shaw, Athena Media 5. ‘Launch of AIB Trinity Climate Hub’ by Prof Yvonne Buckley, Trinity College Dublin 6. ‘Why Do You Study or Work With Plants?’ by Dr. Joanna Kacprzyk and Dr. Rainer Melzer, University College Dublin 7. ‘New Funding Call: Arctic Research Networking Programme’ by Jane Feeney, PhD, University of Galway 8. Congratulations! A Snapshot of Members' Achievements in 2024, including Murray W Hitzman, Erica Terese Krueger, Diarmuid Torney, Yvonne Buckley, Amy Taggart 9. AICBRN’s Bookshelf, including new books by Catherine Dalton, Elvira de Eyto, Eleanor Jennings and Jennie C. Stephens 10. Upcoming Events & Webinars in 2025 We would like to wish all of our members and newsletter subscribers a very happy and restful festive season and new year. Thank you for your efforts to work towards a healthy and sustainable future for all on this island and globally. We look forward to many more fruitful discussions and collaborations in 2025! ⭐ Become a member: https://lnkd.in/e7S5vrw5 ✨ Sign up for our newsletter: https://aicbrn.net/news/ 🌟 Follow us on Bluesky: https://lnkd.in/eyjiCUuS iCRAG Research Ireland Centre for Applied Geosciences Ryan Institute UCD Earth Institute E3, Trinity College Dublin Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water Dublin City University DCU Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

🌿💧Time is running out to join our team at Ulster University We're hiring a Research Associate to work on nature-based solutions for water quality as part of Climate+ Applications close Tues 17th Dec—don’t miss out! 👉 https://buff.ly/41muYsx #JobOpportunity #Researchjob Post | Feed | LinkedIn

We are recruiting for a PhD researcher to join our team at Ulster University. The project focuses on #carbon fluxes in the uplands and implications for national inventories in Northern Ireland. The successful candidate will receive training in gaseous and fluvial carbon processes using state of the art equipment. They will also be funded to attend international courses in this area. This PhD is externally funded by AgriSearch More details and application process available here:

We were excited to support Queen's Students' Union by sponsoring the Best Climate Impact category of the What's the Big Idea competition. We were truly impressed by the innovation and creativity demonstrated in each of the submissions. However, the project that particularly stood out to us was ‘Waste 2 Wildlife’ by Samuel Rowan and his team. Congratulations to the entire team and to all participants! #climateimpact #studententrepreneurs #studentstartups #enterprise #entrepreneur

Delighted to share fantastic new opportunities at Trinity College Dublin 📣 🎉 - 2 job vacancies in #biodiversity #nature #naturepositive 👇 Trinity is a Nature Positive Universities member and halting and reversing #biodiversity loss is a key strategic ambition. Our Sustainability Strategy (https://lnkd.in/ghbVaqQ7) aims for #NaturePositive by 2030. To help achieve this aim, we are recruiting a Biodiversity Officer to join the Trinity Sustainability team. In addition, to build on undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research to inform policy and practice, an Assistant Professor in Business and Nature is being sought. 1. Assistant Professor in Business and Nature, Trinity Business School, apply by 3rd Jan, 5 year tenure track 2. Biodiversity Officer, Trinity Sustainability, apply by 4th Dec, 3 year fixed term Go to https://lnkd.in/ggavQd-W, click on All Vacancies, then enter "Biodiversity" into the keyword search box Please share! Jane Hackett Martha O'Hagan Dr Catherine Farrell Yvonne Buckley Karen Wiltshire Iris Moeller Anna Davies Jennifer Boyer Andrea Deverell Andrea Carroll Ali Sheridan Anja Murray Paddy Woodworth Aebhín Cawley National Biodiversity Data Centre Business For Biodiversity Ireland Siobhan McQuaid School of Natural Sciences Trinity College Dr Dorothy Maxwell FICRS Dip IoD MInstD Norah Campbell Lucy Gaffney Iseult Sheehy Emer Ní Dhúill Natural Capital Ireland Martina von Richter Martina Mullin Cian White Ruth Brennan Elaine Marshall Thomas Ball Dr Stephanie Maher Orlaith Delargy Ece Ozdemiroglu ReFarm Ireland Conor Minogue

We were delighted to sponsor the biodiversity section of the Queen's University Belfast School of Biological Sciences Global Issues poster session. Everyone impressed us with their outstanding research, teamwork and creativity. Special congratulations to the top three teams! Alexandra McMeekin Gary Clarke

Diarmuid Torney from Dublin City University reiterates the urgency of the climate crisis, he urges us to take action but to do so in a fair and inclusive manner while also highlighting the importance of #Philanthropy. As Ireland's philanthropic hub, we support communities, advocacy groups but more than that, we also invest in research to ensure that we are tackling this crisis with hard evidence to bring about the necessary change that we all so desire. If you want to know more about our work, check our website www.communityfoundation.ie Denise Charlton Jerry O'Connor DCU Politics Society Irish Environmental Network ECO-UNESCO Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications All Island Climate & Biodiversity Research Network Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water

We're thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity to join our team at Ulster University as a Research Associate! You'll be part of our Monitoring and Modelling theme of work in Climate+, investigating the effectiveness of nature-based solutions to improve water quality Apply here by Tues 17th of Dec: https://lnkd.in/emCMgRuc

I am re-advertising for a Research Assistant in Management of Peatland Forests for Climate and Biodiversity to work on the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine funded PeatFor project (Management of Peatland Forests for Climate and Biodiversity). This post is based at the University of Limerick and further information, including details on the application process, can be found at: https://lnkd.in/erYQWC8U This is a great opportunity to join a large field-based project and work with my research group at the University of Limerick, project partners Brian Tobin, Matthew Saunders, Junliang Zou and John Connolly and a team of postgraduate researchers. UL Research; Bernal Institute, University of Limerick;