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Citizen Rural: Digital Data for Participatory Democracy in Remote Places

by adminCase Studies 1 March 202327 November 2024Comments are Disabled

UCD Team: The project is led by Dr Karen Keaveney, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science. Co-PI is Assoc. Prof. Ainhoa Gonzalez Del Campo, UCD School of Geography. The Post-Doctoral Researcher is Dr Adwoa Serwaa Ofori, based in the UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science. This two-year project investigates how rural populations can …

iSCAPE – Improving the Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe

by adminCase Studies 21 February 202327 November 2024Comments are Disabled

UCD Principal Investigator: Professor Francesco Pilla, School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy Information on the iSCAPE – Improving the Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe project is available at: Website: https://www.iscapeproject.eu/

SmartDeer Ireland

by adminCase Studies 21 February 202327 November 2024Comments are Disabled

UCD Principal Investigator: Dr Simone Ciuti, School of Biology and Environmental Science The SMARTDEER project – funded by DAFM and UCD – is a research program led by UCD researchers aimed at producing up-to-date distribution maps of deer species in Ireland. This is being achieved by combining historical deer data collected across the nation with new digital …

Dublin Tree Map

by adminCase Studies 21 February 202323 March 2023Comments are Disabled

UCD Team: Dr Gerald Mills and Dr Tine Ningal, School of Geography The Dublin Tree Map is part of the Mapping Green Dublin project. Website: https://mappinggreendublin.com/tree-mapping/tree-data/

The Coastal City Living Lab (CCLLs)

by adminCase Studies 21 February 202323 March 2023Comments are Disabled

UCD: Dr Chiara Cocco, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy. The Coastal City Living Lab (CCLLs) is part of the SCORE project and includes a network of 10 coastal city ‘living labs’ that will involve citizens in providing prototype coastal city early-warning systems. The Dublin CCLL is led by UCD. Website: https://score-eu-project.eu/coastal-city-living-labs/

PRISM (Preservation by Record of Ireland’s Shell Middens)

by adminCase Studies 21 February 202323 March 2023Comments are Disabled

UCD Team: Dr Rory Connolly and Martin Moucheron PRISM (Preservation by Record of Ireland’s Shell Middens) is a citizen science participatory mapping scheme initiated by researchers from University College Dublin and University College Cork. Coastal shell middens are rapidly being lost due to both natural — sea-level rise, coastal erosion, increased storm surges, and isostatic shift — …

MammalNet-Ireland

by adminCase Studies 21 February 202323 March 2023Comments are Disabled

UCD staff: Dr Simone Ciuti, School of Biology and Environmental Science MammalWeb-Ireland’s goal is to connect the different mammal stakeholders across the whole island of Ireland, helping to catalogue Irish mammalian biodiversity, and to understand what species are around us, where they occur, and what aspects of the environment impact on their occurrence and activity. Mammalnet-Ireland is a …

UCD citizen science community of practice launch event, 27 February 2023

by adminNews and Events 8 February 202327 November 2024Comments are Disabled

On 27 February 2023, Professor Francesco Pilla and Professor Mary Kelly-Quinn had an engaging conversation on what citizen science can do, chaired by Dr Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain.

Coastal Communities Adapting Together (CCAT)

by adminCase Studies 8 February 202323 March 2023Comments are Disabled

The CCAT pilot project aimed to support coastal communities to understand climate change and how to adapt. UCD Team: Dr Karen Foley, Dr Brenda McNally, Dr Chiara Cocco, Dr Philip Crowe and Dr Bruno De Andrade The CCAT pilot project was part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Programme and ran …