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Karen Keaveney Appointed Chair of National Decarbonisation Zone Strategy Group
Karen Keaveney has been appointed Chair of Ireland’s National Decarbonisation Zone Strategy Group, an interdepartmental group established by the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications.
Andrew Parnell appointed as Met Éireann Professor of Weather and Climate Research at UCD
Andrew Parnell has been appointed to lead a new multi-million-euro research programme to develop weather and climate services for Ireland using AI and data science hosted between the Earth Institute and the School of Mathematics and Statistics, funded by Met Éireann.
About UCD Earth Institute
The UCD Earth Institute fosters multidisciplinary research and works with stakeholders to address global, regional and national environmental challenges.
Based in University College Dublin’s Belfield campus, the Institute is a focal point for UCD’s environmental, climate and sustainability research and is home to state-of-the-art research facilities.
Our community has world-leading and wide-ranging environmental, climate and sustainability research expertise, with over 250 full and associate members is drawn from across UCD’s six constituent Colleges.
The wide range of expertise within the Institute ensures that we can inform and lead policy in focused disciplines and in multidisciplinary topics.
We foster entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity and technology commercialisation, while our researchers work directly with commercial partners across a range of industries.
We strive to produce research that makes a demonstrable contribution to society, with our researchers working closely with the communities most affected by their work.