Linking Near-Surface Hydrogeophysics and Remote Sensing Technologies for Sustainable Water and Agricultural Catchment Management at multiple spatial scales, with primary focus on Soil Moisture a key climate variable, that influences the water cycle, plant growth, and the health of ecosystems.
The groups research area broadly focuses on imaging the "Critical Zone" - defined as the region where rock meets life: the permeable layer from the tops of trees to the bottom of the groundwater zone with applications for water resources and agricultural management.
Some recent highlights
HY-RES group leader Dr Eve Daly awarded the University of Galway President's award for Research Excellence in PhD supervision
Dr Dave O'Leary HY-RES group member was on the organising committee for this meeting.
Agrogeophysics harnesses geophysical methods such as ground-penetrating radar, electrical imaging, seismic, from hand-held over drone to satellite-borne, to characterize patterns or processes in the soil-plant continuum of interest for agronomic management. These methods help develop sustainable agricultural practices by providing minimally-invasive, spatially consistent, multi-scale, and temporally-resolved information of processes in agro- ecosystems that is inaccessible by traditional monitoring techniques. The aim of this session was to feature applications of geophysical methods in agricultural research and/or show methodologies to overcome their inherent limitations and challenges.
Dr Eve Daly from the HY-RES team was an invited speaker at this event where Sixty participants attended the first day of the ‘Grassland Peat Agriculture Workshop’, which was hosted by the new Teagasc Climate Centre and the ReWet (Teagasc and University of Galway) project at Gurteen College in Tipperary on May 10th 2023 followed by a visit to NASCO and ReWet site located on site.
Presenters from Ireland, the UK and Denmark outlined the scientific, engineering and social issues facing the managment of grasslands on peat soils.
ReWet project members Dr Pat Tuohy, Dr Owen Fenton organised this meeting and Dr Eve Daly presented some of the methods the ReWet Team will be using to map peatland extend and monitor rewetting on the 12 ReWet sites across the midlands.
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Proud supervisor moment. Best Talk Rumia Basu and best poster Dave O'Leary from the HY-RES group at the 14th Irish Earth Observation Symposium, IEOS2022 hosted by Technological University Dublin in Bolton Street, TU Dublin, Dublin