Pearl mussel project European innovation partnership
The Freshwater Pearl Mussel is a locally led, targeted, innovative, results-based scheme which is funded through EIP-Agri. The project is an opportunity to recognise farmers delivering environmental benefits and it will deliver an additional opportunity for farmers to earn an income from their land. It aims to provide long term benefits for biodiversity and river […]
IMP.act
The IMP.act project is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action COFUND fellowship funded by the Irish Research Council, aiming at developing a long-term management plan for microplastic pollution in Galway Bay and its environs. The ecosystem-based approach that the project follows will allow stakeholders to create a sustainable management plan that contributes to national legislation and international […]
Age validation using microchemistry
The AHA project (2018-2020) developed and applied novel methods of age estimation based on seasonal patterns in chemical composition of fish calcified structures. Statistical methods were developed to extract annual signals from microchemistry data and to estimate age. For anglerfish and hake, this approach can be used to corroborate age estimates obtained using traditional methods […]
Unlocking the archive
The Archive project (2016-2022) is a collaboration with the Marine Institute, funded under the Marine Research Programme by the Irish Government. An aim of the project is to consolidate national collections of scales, otoliths, associated images and data into a single biochronology repository, thus maximising the use of the archive by researchers. Time series of […]
FARM ECOS
The FARM ECOS project (2017-2021) will identify and outline the evidence base for novel, cost-effective measures to protect and enhance farmland biodiversity. Identified measures will increase habitat quantity, enhance habitat quality and improve ecological connectivity, from the farm to landscape scale. Measures will thus help halt biodiversity loss and enhance the provision of ecosystem services. […]
Ecosystem tipping points
Marine ecosystems are undergoing unprecedented change, with natural capital declining to the point that benefits accrued by humans are at risk. The Tipping Points project (2015-2019) aimed to collate and integrate datasets describing the Celtic Sea ecosystem, and to use this data to quantify how physical and biological ecosystem components have changed in recent decades […]
High nature value Ireland programme
This HNV farmland development project which has been running since 2010, provides seed funding for a number of initiatives including HNV network development, EIP operational groups, uplands and offshore islands work. GMIT’s ARD group is involved in the annual Burren Winterage School (https://www.burrenwinterage.com/) and the Farming For Nature network (https://www.farmingfornature.ie/), which also comes under this […]
