Coffee morning research talk programme for 2025

Running since 2017, our Thursday coffee mornings are a central part of the life of the Institute. Join us each week during the academic term to hear short informal talks on new environmental, climate and sustainability research and initiatives, from UCD and beyond.

The talks are hosted in the Earth Institute kitchen on the fourth floor of the UCD Science Centre over coffee and cake and are broadcast live on Zoom - find out more about the talks and all our other events on our Events page.

Coffee morning programme for January-March 2025

• 30 January: AI and climate change: some opportunities  |  Andrew Parnell, UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics
• 6 February: Urban sustainability: a view from ancient Greece  |  Conor Trainor, UCD School of Classics
• 13 February: On the necessity of transformative change, moving from an era of crises to an epoch of flourishing  |  Tadhg O’Mahony, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy
• 20 February: Establishing a baseline for Irish biodiversity knowledge  |  Grace Nolan, UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science
• 27 February: Beyond the green backdrop: Exploring the plant-human connection through art  |  Joanna Kacpryzk, UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, and Lorna Donlon, UCD Science Associate Artist
• 6 March: Nam faigheadh tu sgiathan geoidh | If you had a goose’s wings: Migration, dis/emplacement and more-than-human ontologies in the North Atlantic  |  Tiber Falzett, UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore
• 13 March: The Irish Climate Change Advisory Council: What does it do and how can the research community contribute?  |  Stephen Flood, Climate Change Advisory Council
• 20 March: Exploring Microplastics: What we know and what we don’t  |  Junli Xu, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering