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Dr. Terry Morley is a wetland ecologist and physical geographer at the University of Galway. Dr. Morley has been working on wetland and peatland-related science since 1998. Dr. Morley has extensive industry experience in wetland delineation and recently led an initial pilot study examining the accuracy of the Bog Commissioner’s Maps developing methods for the digitisation of the maps. The initial study by Morley and Willmont (2018) shows the opportunity that the RePEAT project represents for identifying and locating grasslands located on former peatlands. Currently Dr. Morley is a Co-PI on the INTERREG CarePeat project and is working with peatland experts throughout Ireland and Europe toward maximising peatland restoration for carbon reduction, developing management tools for peatland conservation, and promoting policies to encourage rewetting of degraded peatlands. Dr. Morley will lead Task 2.
Dr. Katja Bruisch is an environmental historian based in the Department of History in Trinity College Dublin. Dr. Bruisch has extensive experience on the history of peatlands and historical land-use change. She recently (2019) received the prestigious Trinity Provost Project Award funding for a PhD student examining peatland land-use change and peat mining in Ireland. Dr Bruisch’s expertise complements the expertise of the other project members. Trained as a historian, she will be able to situate historical land-use changes on Irish peatlands within their changing social, cultural and political contexts. She will examine the ideas and interests underpinning the mapping and subsequent appropriation of Irish peatlands for farming, forestry and energy purposes. This is important not only to explain the extent to which peatlands have featured as resource reservoirs in modern Ireland. Her research will also help understand current sensibilities and, in some places, resistance against the restoration of degraded peatlands. She will lead Task 4.
Dr. John Connolly is a physical geographer and geoinformatics expert based in the Department of Geography in Trinity College Dublin. He has been involved in peatland research since 2001. He was the lead researcher in the development of the DIPM and DIPMv2. He is currently a PI or Co-PI on several EPA funded peatland and habitat mapping projects as well as several other geospatial and earth observation projects. There he has access to a range of GIS and Earth Observation software as well as several High-Performance Computers and UAVs. He leads the Trinity Geospatial Research Group and is involved in national and international research, mapping peatlands, mapping land use and drainage on peatlands, calculating GHG emissions from peatland and natural landscapes using big data and earth observation techniques to track land use change through time. He has published a number of key papers on peatlands and peatland mapping in Ireland, Europe and beyond. He will be leading Task 1 and Task 3.
Researchers
Lisa Coleman, doctoral candidate
Lisa is a PhD student working on peatland land use change and mapping as part of the RePEAT Project. She has a BA degree in English and Geography from Dublin City University and a MSc in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing from Maynooth University. She previously worked as a GIS analyst on the Irish Natural Capital Accounting for Sustainable Environments Project (INCASE), a project piloting the application of natural capital accounting principles at a catchment scale in Ireland.
Lily Toomey, research assistant and doctoral candidate
Lily is a PhD student of environmental history at the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities working on the project ‘peat mining as an unwritten chapter in the fossil fuel age.’ Her research is focused on the modernising Irish state in the twentieth century and the industrialisation of a native energy source, peat. As part of the RePEAT project, she will be exploring the political and social context of the historical maps. Lily completed a BA in History and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin in 2019.
Dr. Louis Gilet, postdoc
Louis is a physical geographer who will be working as a postdoctoral researcher on the RePEAT project, within the Department of Geography at Trinity College Dublin. He will contribute to all tasks but will be particularly involved in task 3 of the project (Land use and Earth Observation). Prior to this post, Louis worked as a research and teaching assistant in Paris, where he also obtained a PhD in fluvial geomorphology from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He has now been working for several years on the evolutionary trajectory of hydrosystems and has published several papers from his previous research.
Piaras Ó Giobúin, project ecologist / Research Assistant
Piaras (B.Sc.) graduated in 2014 from NUI Galway with a major in Botany. He has since worked as ecologist in the public and private sector, both in Ireland and abroad. In recent years much of his work has been centred around the flora and fauna of blanket bogs – working as a botanist with UKCEH in the Countryside Surveyor, and as an Advisory Officer with NPWS on the Curlew Conservation Programme.
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