OPPORTUNITIES
Current Research Team:
• Postdoctoral Research Associate: Dr Ricardo L. Silva
(Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin/ funding iCRAG)
Project: Temporal and spatial variability in Lower Jurassic hydrocarbon source-rock quality in Irish off-shore marine basins
• PhD-student: Emma Blanka Kovacs (MSc)
(Department of Geology & Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin/ funding TCD)
Project: Deadly kiss of the LIPs: Did Large Igneous Province volcanism cause global carbon cycle change and mass extinction in Earth’s past?
• MSc dissertation-student: Sophie Trinder (Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin)
Project: Constraining Geological Time: The rate and magnitude of middle
Jurassic carbon cycle and global climate change
Past Research-Team Members:
• Dissertation-student: Cormac Ó Gibne (Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin)
Project: Constraining Global Carbon Cycle Change and Atmospheric pCO2
During Early Jurassic LIP Volcanism
• Dissertation-student: Emily Rees (Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin)
Project: Constraining geological time: The rate and magnitude of middle
Jurassic carbon cycle and global climate change
• Dissertation-student: Patrycja Struzynska (Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin)
Project: Climatic and environmental change in continental interiors (China)
during a major global change event in Earth’s history
• Dissertation-student: Matt Lyons (Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin)
Project: Constraining the rate of evolution and ecosystem recovery following
the end-Triassic mass extinction
• Dissertation-student: Cillian Barry (Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin)
2019-2020 Project: Constraining the rate and magnitude of carbon-cycle change at the
transition from the Pliensbachian Icehouse to the Toarcian Hothouse world
• Dissertation-student: Ross Quirke (Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin)
2019-2020 Project: Constraining the rate and magnitude of carbon-cycle change at the
global end-Triassic mass extinction, and its temporal link to large
igneous province volcanism
• Dissertation-student: Johan Naslund (Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin)
2018-2019 Project: Mercury in fossil leaves as a proxy for tracking Large Igneous Province
volcanism
• Lab-project-student: Ellen Mullarkey (Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin)
2018-2019 Project: Linking the-end Triassic mass extinction to Central Atlantic Magmatic
Province volcanism: new insights from Hg-analyses from the Larne basin
(Northern ireland)
• Lab-project-student: Johan Naslund (Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin)
2018-2019 Project: Hg-fluxes from Karoo-Ferrar Large Igneous Province and their
potential link to the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event