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64th Irish Geological Research Meeting

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Mary Immaculate College was delighted to host the 64th Irish Geological Research Meeting – the first time the college hosted the IGRM, and the first time the IGRM was held online.

The meeting was held over Microsoft Teams, on 25-26th February. Speakers delivered oral presentations over Teams, with all presentations live-streamed on YouTube, and an online chat function for discussion and questions. Posters were hosted online on the conference website.

The schedule and the list of posters are available through the links to the right. The Programme and Abstracts volume is available to download. 

IGRM 2021
IGRM 2021
64th IGRM 25-26 February 2021 hosted by MIC Limerick

Keynote Speaker

Keynote Speaker

We were delighted to have the conference open with a keynote lecture at 7pm on 25th February, by Paul F. Hoffman of the School of Earth & Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Formerly Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University, Paul is best known for his work on Proterozoic tectonics and the Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth hypothesis, and is one of the most influential geologists of our lifetimes.

Link to view: https://youtu.be/Etlxet1msxo

On the freshwater ancestry of marine primary producers: a snowball Earth legacy and implications for the pre-Cryogenian marine fossil record

Paul F. Hoffman

Molecular phylogenomic ancestral-state reconstruction suggests that many modern marine primary producers evolved in freshwater over most of their evolutionary history. This is surprising in view of the marine fossil record of cyanobacteria and algae back to at least 2.02 and 1.04 billion years ago, respectively. We can reconcile this apparent conflict by assuming that all modern organisms are derived from the survivors of Cryogenian snowball Earths, when phototrophy was limited to supraglacial meltwaters, meromictic ice-covered lakes, and certain hot springs. This suggests that most pre-Cryogenian marine fossils represent stem groups, lacking direct descendents in living taxa.

IGRM 2021 KEYNOTE LECTURE
IGRM 2021 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Paul F. Hoffman

Programme for Friday 26 February

Presentations schedule
Presentations schedule
26 February 0900-1700

Prizes

The Irish Geological Association kindly sponsored prizes for the best presentations by a student. Eligible talks are marked by a #.

The winners, announced at the end of the conference, were:

Commendation: David O'Leary

Best student talk (joint award): Benjamin Couvin and Adrienn Maria Szucs 

   
1 Chair: Tiernan Henry and Fani Papageorgiou
   
0900 Tellus Programme Update and New Old Data
  James Hodgson and the Tellus Team – Ray Scanlon, Mairead Glennon, Emma Scanlon, Judith Mather, Vincent Gallagher, Michal Szpak, Margaret Browne, Mark Muller, Mohammednur Ture, and James Symons

 

0920 The potential of Self-Organising maps clustering to characterise a harvested peatland using airborne radiometric data and a digital elevation model
  David O’Leary, Stephen Monteverde, Oisín Callery, Mark Healy, Colin Brown, and Eve Daly

Commendation - Best Student Presentation

 

0940 Representative groundwater flow parameters in complex systems: fractured bedrocks of Ireland
  John Paul Moore, David Ball, and Michael Gill

 

1000 Poster Flash Talks
   
1030 BREAK
   
2 Chair: Patrick Orr and Hilde Koch
   
1100 The Joyce Country and Western Lakes geopark project; an asset and a facilitator for education and research
  Benjamin Thébaudeau, Amrine Dubois Gafar and Siobhán Power

 

1120 Hardcore Cork: Promoting Cork’s Geological Heritage Through 3d Reconstructions And A Museum Exhibition
  Aude Cincotta and Thomas Heising

 

1140 U-Pb ages of Carboniferous sedimentary phosphates from County Clare
  Gary J. O’Sullivan, J. Stephen Daly, John Murray, Aodhán Ó’Gogáin, David M. Chew, Eszter Badenszki, Brendan C. Hoare, Paul C. Guyett, and Foteini Drakou

 

1200 First record of a conulariid from the Pennslyvanian (Bashkirian) of Ireland
  Eamon Doyle
 
1230 LUNCH
   
3 Chair: Koen Verbruggen and Anna Bidgood
   
1330 Marine litter accumulation in cold-water coral habitats: a comparative study of two Irish special areas of conservation, NE Atlantic
  John K. M. Appah, O. Kileen, A. Lim, R. O’Riordan, L. O’Reilly, and A.J. Wheeler

 

1350 Variable stress state with depth in the shallow crust of the North of Hawke Bay, New Zealand
  Effat Behboudi, D.D. McNamara, I. Lokmer, L.M. Wallace, and T. Manzocchi

 

1410 Emplacement and internal deformation of submarine landslides constrained by resistivity image log interpretation
  Benjamin Couvin, David D. McNamara, Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Lawrence A. Amy, and Joshu J. Mountjoy

Joint Winner - Best Student Presentation

 

1430 Replacement of calcite by rare earth carbonates; the formation of bastnäsite
  Adrienn Maria Szucs, Alexandra Stavropoulou, Claire O'Donnell, Seana Davis, and Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco

Joint Winner - Best Student Presentation

 

1500 BREAK
   
4 Chair: Bettie Higgs and Luke O'Reilly
   
1530 Nitrate Sources in Rivers Shannon and Corrib
  Devin F. Smith, W.B. Lyons, S.A. Welch, P.L. Croot, S. Wheeler, T. Henry, and A.E. Carey

 

1550 Integrated geophysical investigations of deeper stratigraphy of the Irish Rockall Basin from north to south
  Gaurav Tomar, Christopher J Bean, Brian M. O'Reilly, and Srikumar Roy

 

1610 Carbonatites as chroniclers and critical resources: An example of the Gifford Creek Carbonatite Complex, Western Australia
  Paul Slezak, Carl Spandler, and Teimoor Nazari-Dehkordi

 

1630 Lightly salted tetrapods: do Pennsylvanian coal swamp assemblages preserve a brackish ecosystem?
  Aodhán Ó Gogáin, Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, and John Murray

 

1700 CLOSE

Posters

To view the posters as a PDF, click on the title.

Posters were introduced by 2-minute 'flash talks' in Session 1 on Friday 26th, from 1000-1030.

Prizes

The Irish Geological Association kindly sponsored prizes for the best and runner up poster by a student. 

The winners, announced at the end of the conference, were:

Commendation (flash talk): Eimear McKenna and Seán Haughton

Commendation (poster): Orlaith Tyrrell and Larissa Macedo Cruz de Oliveira

Best Student Poster (joint award): Amy Benaim and Avery Fenton

   
1 The Geology Of The Carlingford Igneous Complex
 

 

Eimear McKenna, John Reavy, and Kate Kiseeva

Commendation (flash talk) - Best Student Poster

2 Insights into preliminary procedures for estimation of soil pesticide risks in Irish grasslands using HAIR2014 tool
  Alina Premrov, Matthew Saunders, Jesko Zimmermann, and Jane Stout

 

3 Catchment Characterisation: Hydrology of the Barna River, County Galway, Ireland
 

 

Seán Haughton and Tiernan Henry

Commendation (flash talk) - Best Student Poster 

 

4 A new specimen of Petalodus from the Mississippian of north County Kerry, Ireland
 

 

Róisín Mooney, Aodhán Ó Gogáin, and John Murray

 

5 Removal of Surface Waves From Active Seismic Records Using Seismic Interferometry
  Varun Kumar Singla and Ivan Lokmer

 

6 New Mississippian fish microvertebrate assemblages spanning a deepening marine environment, from St. Brendan’s Well, Co. Clare, Ireland
  Avery Fenton, Aodhán Ó Gogáin, Eamon Doyle, and John Murray

Joint Winner - Best Student Poster

 

7 The Jarrow microsaur is actually Keraterpeton galvani
#

 

Kevin Duffy, Aodhán Ó Gogáin, and John Murray

 

8 Trust and perception: key challenges facing geoscientists in practice and in Irish society
  Jess Franklin, Tiernan Henry, Gesche Kindermann, and Caitriona Carlin

 

9 Rainfall as a trigger for Volcanic Activity: Analysis of Historic Eruption Records
 

 

Amy Benaim, Chris Bean, and Tiernan Henry

Joint Winner - Best Student Poster

 

10 The Geology of the Glentrasna area, Co. Galway
 

 

Orlaith Tyrrell and John Reavy

Commendation - Best Student Poster

 

11 Use of 3D photogrammetry for advancing seabed mapping techniques for deep-water habitat classification in Submarine Canyons
 

 

Larissa Macedo Cruz de Oliveira, Aaron Lim, Luis Americo Conti, and Andy Wheeler

Commendation - Best Student Poster

 

12 The Impact of Thermal Plumes on Aquifer Properties and Ground Water Quality
 

 

Joseph Ireland, Ulrich Ofterdinger, and John Barry

 

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  Geological Survey of Ireland
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