64th Irish Geological Research Meeting
About
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.
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.
Programme for Friday 26 February
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 |
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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
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| 0920 | The potential of Self-Organising maps clustering to characterise a harvested peatland using airborne radiometric data and a digital elevation model |
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David O’Leary, Stephen Monteverde, Oisín Callery, Mark Healy, Colin Brown, and Eve Daly
Commendation - Best Student Presentation
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| 0940 | Representative groundwater flow parameters in complex systems: fractured bedrocks of Ireland |
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John Paul Moore, David Ball, and Michael Gill
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| 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 |
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Benjamin Thébaudeau, Amrine Dubois Gafar and Siobhán Power
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| 1120 | Hardcore Cork: Promoting Cork’s Geological Heritage Through 3d Reconstructions And A Museum Exhibition |
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Aude Cincotta and Thomas Heising
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| 1140 | U-Pb ages of Carboniferous sedimentary phosphates from County Clare |
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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
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| 1200 | First record of a conulariid from the Pennslyvanian (Bashkirian) of Ireland |
| Eamon Doyle |
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| 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 |
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John K. M. Appah, O. Kileen, A. Lim, R. O’Riordan, L. O’Reilly, and A.J. Wheeler
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| 1350 | Variable stress state with depth in the shallow crust of the North of Hawke Bay, New Zealand |
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Effat Behboudi, D.D. McNamara, I. Lokmer, L.M. Wallace, and T. Manzocchi
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| 1410 | Emplacement and internal deformation of submarine landslides constrained by resistivity image log interpretation |
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Benjamin Couvin, David D. McNamara, Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Lawrence A. Amy, and Joshu J. Mountjoy
Joint Winner - Best Student Presentation
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| 1430 | Replacement of calcite by rare earth carbonates; the formation of bastnäsite |
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Adrienn Maria Szucs, Alexandra Stavropoulou, Claire O'Donnell, Seana Davis, and Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco
Joint Winner - Best Student Presentation
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| 1500 | BREAK |
| 4 | Chair: Bettie Higgs and Luke O'Reilly |
| 1530 | Nitrate Sources in Rivers Shannon and Corrib |
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Devin F. Smith, W.B. Lyons, S.A. Welch, P.L. Croot, S. Wheeler, T. Henry, and A.E. Carey
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| 1550 | Integrated geophysical investigations of deeper stratigraphy of the Irish Rockall Basin from north to south |
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Gaurav Tomar, Christopher J Bean, Brian M. O'Reilly, and Srikumar Roy
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| 1610 | Carbonatites as chroniclers and critical resources: An example of the Gifford Creek Carbonatite Complex, Western Australia |
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Paul Slezak, Carl Spandler, and Teimoor Nazari-Dehkordi
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| 1630 | Lightly salted tetrapods: do Pennsylvanian coal swamp assemblages preserve a brackish ecosystem? |
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Aodhán Ó Gogáin, Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, and John Murray
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| 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
- About
- Keynote Speaker
- Programme for Friday 26 February
- Posters
