The Marine Geoscience Group in collaboration with the British Geological Survey and University of Glasgow present a novel ArcGIS Pro toolbox. Confined Morphologies Mapping (CoMMa) Toolbox is an ArcGIS Pro toolbox created for semi-automated morphological mapping.

The Marine Geoscience group at UCC and the Marine Institute present the Irish Shelf Seabed Geomorphological Map, the first high-resolution  geomorphological map of the entire Irish continental shelf. Explore it HERE!

Our postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Alicia Mateos Cárdenas, recently completed a consultancy for Oceana Europe on the feasibility of seabed litter clean-ups.

Merry Xmas everybody

John Appah refelects on his recent PhD viva defence

One of our postdocs of the team, Dr. Alicia Mateos Cárdenas, recently travelled to Seoul and Busan (Korea) to present her research at the largest plastic pollution conference in the world (7IMDC).

We did it. Our first mobile app to visualise 3D models of cold-water coral habitats is out!

Larissa embarked on a French tour to the 4^th Marine Imaging Workshop this month

Ó, in the past months it has all been about deepening and developing collaborations with scientists in Brazil for the UCC Marine Geosciences Research Group with two related activities.

Ric provides us with an update on his recent visit to Malta

Jess Harty wraps things up with our final of three blog posts from our most recent research survey

Dr Alicia Mateos Cardenas provides us with the second of three blog posts from our most recent research survey

Prof. Andy Wheeler updates us on the first of three blog posts from our most recent research survey

Guillaume writes a few updates on the I-MORE project before the final straight line towards a publication

Audrey’s lab work on rock samples and preparations for Raman spectrometry

Riccardo Arosio debriefs us on his current work off the coast of Kilkeel

John Appah's paper was recently published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin. Read all about it here!

The crew embarked on a European tour!

Gerard provides a tantalising insight into his second chapter and his upcoming schedule

Larissa wins Delap Prize Bronze Award for best peer-reviewed publication in the School of BEES

Guillaume share some thoughts about geophysical data and seismic artefacts

Luke has been diligently keeping his head down over the last few months. He recently got his paper published in the academic journal Quaternary Science Reviews!

Audrey brings us up to speed on her recent trip to Brest

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Our planet is in crisis! There you go, I’ve said it. It’s what we all know but won’t take on board. We absolutely must decarbonise our lifestyle, society, and our economy and simply reduce humanity’s footprint to sustainable levels. And we are way-off sustainable.

What does one do, while drafting a geomorphology glossary... Write blog posts of course! 

A brief note from John Appah

Having accepted an offer of admissions to UCC’s PhD programme in Earth Science this week – it is finally official: Felix Butschek will begin his PhD with us. He writes his thoughts..

We are developing an augmented reality mobile application for visualising cold-water corals in 3D using your mobile phone

Alicia brings up us to scratch on developments in the field of (micro)plastic pollution.

Guillaume writes some updates about the I-MORE project progress and upcoming associated research.

Luke writes his thoughts on how in-person conferences helped his PhD journey

Dr. Audrey Recouvreur writes a quick note on her progress.

The Irish continental margin presents diverse geomorphological domains displaying bedrock outcrops that can host a large variety of habitats from shallow to cryptic.

Dr. Riccardo Arosio has been busy with his project, NoMans_Tif 

Wow it’s been a busy week this week with the Marine Geosciences Research Group. Andy has put together a summary of the groups activity.

Recent thoughts from PhD researcher John Appah

If you have ever wondered how the Irish seabed looks like at 700 metres depth, this post is for you!

Gerard Summers, one of our PhD Researchers, has been hard at work creating a workflow that will allow semi-automated processing of seabed sediment wave data.

Felix reports back from a survey on the Celtic Voyager to assess the Mobility of Sediment Waves and Sand Banks(MOVE) in the Irish Sea.

Members of our group are in midst of analysis. Dr. Mateos-Cardénas is currently working on how cold-water corals are coping with microplastics.

The exploration of geophysical data from the Irish Sea allows the scientific team to build a ground model, furthering their understanding of the area through time.

Since 1996 Prof. Andy Wheeler has been progressing our understanding on earth processes, more specifically in the marine domain.  

Students from NUIG, Maynooth and UCC took part in an two day practical course on board the RV Celtic Explorer. 

Contributors from UCC and beyond explore Irelands coastline with 800 pages of original maps, illustrations and more. The Journal.ie annouced it as the "Best Irish Based-Publication of 2021".

This week, PhD student Luke O'Reilly from the UCC Marine Geology Research Group travelled to Bremen, Germany for the ECORD training course in MARUM. Luke explained the trip as an experience that "has given him a comprehensive insight into life aboard an IODP expedition".

An update from PhD researcher John

Dr. Aaron Lim uses imagery aquired from a Remotely Operated Vehicle to build 3D models of the seafloor and cold-water coral reefs

An update from PhD researcher Luke!

Over the past few months, I have been collecting all the existing information that I can find about the seabed off the south coast of Ireland.

This is Gerard here. My first few months of research have been gaining an understanding of the pre-existing literature and processing a complete set of multibeam data that we collected in Cork Harbour.

Dr Jürgen Titschack visits the UCC Marine Geosciences Research Group

Researcher Luke has recently traveled to MARUM in the University of Bremen, to collaborate with Dr. Jürgen Titschack, a sedimentologist who specializes in heterozoan carbonates and CT processing of cold-water coral cores.

Last week, Professor Andy Wheeler and PhD researcher Gerard Summers attended a very successful launch to the MarPAMM project at the Whistledown hotel in Warrenpoint.

Professor Andy Wheeler, Dr Aaron Lim and PhD student John Appah from the UCC Marine Geology Research Group accompanied by  Professor Luis Conti from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil travelled to the Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy's (MaREI) Beaufort Building in Cork Harbour for a workshop to showcase what the group was doing.

A recent article from the Irish Times featuring coverage on the alarming changes that are occurring in deep water coral reefs along the Porcupine Seabight.

Research carried out by Professor Andy Wheeler, Dr Aaron Lim and the Marine Geology Research Group on board the RV Celtic Explorer featured on RTÉ Filmmaker Ken O'Sullivan's latest documentary titled "Ireland's Deep Atlantic".

UCC Marine Geosciences Research Group represented at GEOHAB2018

Our newest member of the team, PhD researcher Gerard Summers, joined the UCC Marine Geology Research Group last week under the MARPAMM project which stands for Marine Protected Areas Management and Monitoring.

Find out about the MarPAMM AUV Workshop

We have just arrived back from our 10 day research cruise on board the RV Celtic Explorer.

We recently showcased 'Ireland's Cold-Water Coral Reef Experience' at 'Cork Discovers - 2019'.

Last month Andy, John and Luke travelled to Ghana on a working visit to explore collaboration options between three selected institutions in Ghana: University of Mines and Technology (UMAT) Tarkwa, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and technology (KNUST) Kumasi and University of Cape Coast (hereafter, UCC Ghana). A series of talks were delivered by the team, exploring concepts and ideas of environmental monitoring in extreme environments, in particular those including Cold-water corals (CWCs) along the Irish margin.

PhD Researcher, Gerard Summers, is currently lending a hand to the MI and INFOMAR (Integrated Mapping for the Sustainable Development of Ireland’s Marine Resource) and is mapping the southern Irish sea territory using the cutting-edge sonar technology available aboard the RV Celtic Explorer.