A5027412028- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Advanced Database Systems and Queries
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Census and Population Estimation
- Joseph Conrad and Literature
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
- Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
- Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
- Statistical Methods and Inference
Netherlands eScience Center
2024
Atlantic Technological University
2024
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
2016-2022
Enterprise Ireland
2020
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
2016
Queen's University Belfast
2009
Floating microplastic debris at the ocean's surface represents about 1% of all plastics found in environment, with remainder thought to be either deposited along coast or sinks bottom ocean. This exploratory research on a coastal embayment Northeast Atlantic Ocean assesses floating densities and potential influence wind. A total 1182 particles were retrieved from seawater volume 2039.86 m3. The average density (0.56 ± 0.33 MP m-3) is based sample 20 manta trawls. study reports primary...
Marine heatwaves (MHWs)—prolonged periods of anomalously warm sea surface temperatures (SST)—pose significant ecological and economic challenges, particularly for aquaculture sectors sensitive to temperature variability around Ireland. This study integrates 43 years historical daily SST data (1982–2024) from NOAA, ICES, the Institute develop a comprehensive deep-learning framework predicting detecting MHWs in Irish maritime region.A comparative analysis two MHW...
Abstract The objective of the study was to provide a general procedure for mapping species abundance when data are zero‐inflated and spatially correlated counts. bivalve Macoma balthica observed on 500×500 m grid in D utch part W adden S ea. In total, 66% 3451 counts were zeros. A P oisson mixture model used relate environmental covariates. Two models considered, one with relatively fewer covariates (model “small”) than other “large”). contained two processes: B ernoulli (species prevalence)...
Environmental change and fishing activity can produce directional trends in exploited fish populations with consequences for stock productivity. For herring the Celtic Sea, size at age has been steady decline since mid 1980's. In neighbouring off Northwest coast of Ireland, reductions are noted after 1990. Here, gradient boosting regression trees were used to investigate extended time series (1959–2012) length-at-age across both identify important variables associated observed declines size....
Imbalance between positive and negative outcomes, a so-called class imbalance, is problem generally found in medical data. Imbalanced data hinder the performance of conventional classification methods which aim to improve overall accuracy model without accounting for uneven distribution classes. To rectify this, can be resampled by oversampling (minority) until classes are approximately equally represented. After that, prediction such as gradient boosting algorithm fitted with greater...
Fish are adapted to spawn where their larvae will be retained in, or transported to, suitable juvenile habitat. Variability in circulation and behaviour produces variation larval transport with consequences for recruitment. A biophysical model was used simulate early dispersal of Celtic Sea herring (Clupea harengus) during wintertime 6 years (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010). After 30 days, particles occurred three areas: inshore Sea, offshore southern Irish the majority (70%–78% on...
Abstract Although gelatinous zooplankton are an important component of marine ecosystems, mesozooplankton that <2 cm underrepresented in monitoring programmes. Here, the interannual variability abundance and diversity was estimated from 167 net samples were collected Celtic Sea during seven fisheries surveys between 2007 2019 analysed alongside environmental parameters. Compositional changes occurred interannually, including overturn ratio two siphonophores (Muggiaea atlantica Agalma...
Almost nothing is known about the historical abundance of ocean sunfish. Yet as an ecologically and functionally important taxa, understanding changes in may be a useful indicator how our seas are responding to anthropogenic including overfishing climate change. Within this context, sightings from coastal bird observatory (51.26 ∘ N, 9.30 W) over 47 year period (from April October 1971-2017) provided first long-term index sunfish abundance. Using general linear mixed effect model with hurdle...
Abstract Biodiversity is a multi-dimensional concept that represented by large variety of measures. This complexity and lack consistency limits the development coherent scientific understanding biodiversity how properties, such as ecosystem services, may depend on it. Here, I demonstrate formal discipline creating relational database (RDB) for information about its measures, useful tool in organising knowledge into sense. Following steps logical design data normalization to build RDB,...
Biodiversity is a multi-dimensional concept that represented by large variety of measures. This complexity and lack consistency limits the development coherent scientific understanding biodiversity how properties, such as ecosystem services, may depend on it. Here, I demonstrate formal discipline creating relational database (RDB) for information about its measures, useful tool in organising knowledge into sense. Following steps logical design data normalization to build RDB, results...