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New Institute Members June 2024
In June 2024, the Earth Institute welcomed six new Institute members: Ronan McDermott, Karen Smith, Fabiola Schneider, Ekin Ozer, Chiara Cocco, and Gabriela Martinez Sainz.
Earth Institute Launches Earth Comment Series on Environmental, Climate, and Sustainability Issues
Our new Earth Comment series provides comment, opinion and explainers on environmental, climate and sustainability issues from leading experts in the UCD Earth Institute.
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 research and is home to state-of-the-art research facilities.
Our community has world-leading and wide-ranging environmental 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.