GSI planned the Geoscience 2012 Conference which was held in Dublin Castle on 18th and 19th April 2012. The general themes of the conference were water (both surface and groundwater) and hazards in the urban environment from the perspective of the public sector and industry.
Day 1, 18th April, was a one-day conference “A Safe City; The Contribution of Geoscience in the Urban Environment”, organised by the Geological Survey of Ireland, Geological Survey of Northern Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy.
Day 2, 19th April "From Research to Jobs"
Tellus Border, Annual Technical Seminar
INFOMAR, Survey and Research Highlights
Griffith Awards, Research Highlights
Geoscience Initiatives, Applied Projects and Industry/Policy view
A 200 page 'Conference Abstracts' document is available for download here (17Mb)
Day 1: Wednesday 18th April
A Safe City
The Contribution of Geoscience in the Urban Environment (download Day 1 Abstracts)
The schedule was as follows (download Day 1 Programme)
9.30 Welcoming address by the Mr. Koen Verbruggen, Acting Director, GSI
9.45 Opening by Minister of State, Fergus O'Dowd, T.D. (read Press Release)
10.00 Experiences With Integrated Geoscience Modelling in an Urban Context - Michiel van der Meulen, Jan Stafleu, Ronald Vernes, Jan Gunnink TNO/Geological Survey of the Netherlands. (more details)
10.30 3D and 4D subsurface models for improved decision making and Safer Cities – an example from Glasgow, UK - Dr Diarmad Campbel, British Geological Survey. (more details)
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Groundwater flooding within an urbanised floodplain - David Macdonald, British Geological Survey. (more details)
12.00 Safer Cities in Ireland - Koen Verbruggen, Geological Survey of Ireland. (more details)
12.30 Dublin SURGE Project – Soil Urban Geochemistry study for Dublin - Ray Scanlon, Geological Survey of Ireland. (more details)
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Airborne Coastal Surveys and Related GIS Applications in the Office of Public Works (OPW) - Jim Casey, Office of Public Works. (more details)
14.30 New Geological Information from a Tunnelling Study in Dublin Bay - Henning Moe, CDM Smith. (more details)
15.00 Securing our Urban Water Supplies - David Ball. (more details)
15.30 Mad stone under Cork - Darragh Musgrave, White Young Green (WYG). (more details)
16.00 Utilisation of Underground Space in Urban Environments - Tim Paul, (SLR). (more details)
16.30 Discussion
17.00 Reception
18.00 Understanding future Earthquakes and Tsunamis - Professor John McCloskey, University of Ulster
19.00 Closes
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Day 2: Thursday 19th April
"From Research to Jobs"
Tellus Border - Annual Technical Seminar
INFOMAR - Survey and Research Highlights (download Day 2 Abstracts)
(download Day 2 Programme)
9:10 Opening by Michael Manley, Assistant Secretary, DCENR
Session 1 - Tellus Border I - Chair: Michael Manley, DCENR
9:20 Project Overview - Dr Marie Cowan, GSNI
9:40 Agriculture - An Industry View - Gerry Bird, OCAE Consultants Ltd
10:00 Health - A Research View - Dr Ulrich Ofterdinger, QUB
10:20 Delivering on Economic Benefits - Garth Earls
10:40 Coffee and Posters
Session 2 - Tellus Border II - Chair: Noel Cornick, DETI NI
11:00 Keynote - Soil as a Resource - Informing Policy - Dr John O'Neill, DECLG
11:30 Pollution Plume Modelling - Dr Reda Amer, QUB
11:45 Peat Thickness Modelling - Dr Antoinette Keaney, QUB
12:00 Wetlands Management - Dr Alec Rolston, DKIT
12:15 Tellus: Research Highlights and Opportunities - Ray Scanlon, GSI
12:30 Tellus: Contribution to Society - Mike Young, GSNI
12:50 Panel Discussion and Questions
13:10 Lunch
Session 3 - GSI & Geoscience Initiatives I - Chair: Mike Young, GSNI
14:00 Working to create jobs in Geoscience - Paul Butler, Enterprise Ireland. (more details)
14:20 Project Update & how INFOMAR is leveraging projects & creating jobs - Tom Furey, Marine Institute. (more details)
14:40 Groundwater: where we are in 2012 - Monica Lee, GSI. (more details)
15:00 Ireland’s Aggregate Potential – Status Report 2012 - Phelim Lally, GSI. (more details)
15:20 National Landslide Mapping & Viewer - Charise McKeon, GSI (more details)
15:40 Coffee and Posters
Session 4 - GSI & Geoscience Initiatives II - Chair: Alan Jones, DIAS
16:10 Geothermal Resource Evaluation - Taly Hunter Williams, GSI. (more details)
16:30 Carbon Capture & Storage Project - Mary Carter, GSI. (more details)
16:50 Geoheritage & Geoparks - Sarah Gatley, GSI. (more details)
17:10 A new National Quaternary Geology Map of Ireland - Robbie Meehan & Michael Sheehy, Talamh Consulting & GSI. (more details)
17:30 Panel Discussion and Questions
17:50 Risk and reward in turning research into jobs: the MTEM story - Professor Bruce Hobbs, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh
18:30 Reception & Posters
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