Six community-based geoheritage projects awarded funding
Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) has awarded geoheritage (geological heritage) grants to six community-based projects around the country, it has been announced today (Tuesday, December 29).
The funds, valued at €10,000 each, are available under the Geoheritage Grant Scheme run by the Geoheritage Programme in GSI.
GSI, the national earth science agency, is a division of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.
According to the department, the aim of the fund is to encourage the telling of the Irish geological story, improve the understanding of geoscience, and to engage with groups throughout the country.
“Geology is part of the heritage of Ireland and is celebrated as part of who we are,” the department said.
Waverider Buoy Research Project to Measure How Extreme Storms & Wave Heights will Impact the Coast
22nd December 2020
The wave buoy is deployed in Brandon Bay on the 1, December 2020
A research project led by coastal and ocean scientists in NUI Galway and the Marine Institute involves the deployment of a combination of smart buoys and time-lapse imaging to measure storm impacts and support the development of coastal flood and erosion defences.
The project, Brandon Bay on the Dingle Peninsula, Co Kerry, involves:
A new waverider buoy provided by Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to measure wave height, wave direction, wave period, surface currents, and water temperature as well as storm impact
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new study of fossilised bones reveals that dinosaurs roamed our shores about 200 million years ago. The bones, which were found along Co Antrimâs eastern coast in the 1980s, are the only dinosaur remains to have ever been recorded on the island of Ireland.
Since their discovery, palaeontologists had long suspected that they were of dinosaur origin but now dinosaur experts have finally identified them as such.
âPeople knew about them but they had never been formally described. Now itâs official. We know what these dinosaurs are,â says Dr Mike Simms, a curator and palaeontologist at National MuseumsNorthern Ireland and lead author on the study.