Gerard McCarthy

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A partially zoomed out map with a pin at the position of St Munna's Church, L1618, County Westmeath, Ireland

A zoomed in map showing a pin at the position of St Munna's Church, L1618, County Westmeath, Ireland

🇮🇪 - St Munna's Church, L1618, County Westmeath, Ireland

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Delira do Becky Ní Éallaithe as ucht Steip 2025 a bhuachaint. About time!

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I'm reading the Parable of the Talents at the moment and having lots of 'did I read that in the book or in the news?' moments.

We were all brought together under iCRAG—the Research Ireland Centre for Applied Geosciences (www.icrag-centre.org). It was nice writing with a multidisciplinary group like this.

Is the Atlantic ocean's "wobble" a warning for Ireland? The Atlantic between Ireland and Canada, which gives us our mild climate, is behaving strangely and is the only location on the earth's surface that has cooled

What is going on with the AMOC - the system of ocean currents that gives Ireland its mild and wet climate? With a number of iCRAG colleagues we wrote a short piece for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social ➡️

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Is the Atlantic ocean's "wobble" a warning for Ireland? The Atlantic between Ireland and Canada, which gives us our mild climate, is behaving strangely and is the only location on the earth's surface that has cooled

Up on RTÉ Brainstorm now, together with colleagues Audrey Morley, @tomasbuitendijk.bsky.social, Chris Bean, an article we wrote on the AMOC (gulfstreamsystem, as Joyce would have said) that spans social science, current and past climates and emerging observing: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Yay! feel very conflicted about what I want from that storm now. Devastation is obviously bad but don't want it to be a woos either.

That would be really interesting. Somebody must have done experiments on Atlantic circulation with the Med open and closed too I guess. It's an important question to know how much extra deep warming in the Atlantic is due to AMOC and has implications for GMST

Definitely thinking of your work @janzika.bsky.social when thinking of ocean vertical heat transport.

I often come back to the Atlantic being warmer than the Pacific at depth. At shallower depths, it seems obvious that the warm water is coming from the Med. But also the vertical heat transport due to overturning processes needs to be remembered. Anyone know of study partitioning those two processes?

sounds sketchy!

Nice to see a bit of life going back in there. It was a shell a long time. I presume it will be a pub again, thinking about it now, it would make an excellent escape room. The heat could be a feature rather than a bug.

God I'm having flashbacks of sweating in there after All-Irelands past.

The butterflies are flying it at the moment. clockwise from top (afaik at least!): red admiral, dragonfly, small tortoiseshell, holly blue (back of wings), grasshopper. From a blackberry picking session on the Old Rail Trail on Saturday.

Enjoy your visit!

My linocut portrait of Marie Tharp (woman in grey shirt with oversized glasses and red hair in up-do) in front of her physiographic of the Atlantic (in grey on teal) with mid-ocean ridge, resting her cheek on her left hand with elbow on table covered with depth sounder data.

Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.⁠ 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci
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After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing

Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland? GAA clubs are found in every corner of Ireland, but you'll find surprising pockets of football clubs in so-called hurling counties and vice-versa

Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland? Analysis of the geographical spread of Gaelic games by
@germac.bsky.social Amelia Carroll & Hannah Shen @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #AllIrelandHurlingFinal #AllIrelandFinal

We've a great line up of MOC talks for this year's IAPSO-IAMAS-IACS conference in Busan, South Korea. I look forward to meeting colleagues and catching up.

I don't think the Cork hurling area connects between the Limerick border pocket (Newtown, Charleville, Ballyhea) and the Lee valley, east Cork pocket. Mallow, Clyda are strongly football and I think that connects with the Slieve Luachra, Muskerry football strongholds.

This is an update to the work Hannah and Amelia did last summer. We used the winning senior clubs to determine the hurling areas in Munster (circled by blue below). This year we checked that against the clubs of the squads for the final (black dots) and they matched well.

Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland? GAA clubs are found in every corner of Ireland, but you'll find surprising pockets of football clubs in so-called hurling counties and vice-versa

Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland? Analysis of the geographical spread of Gaelic games by @germac.bsky.social Amelia Carroll & Hannah Shen @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Laraghbryan, home to ICARUS, hydrangas and acer going strong.

St Joe's Square.

Lovely summer walks up from the train to the office in Maynooth.

Loadsa news up on our webpage. Particular welcome to Emma and Hannah who are with us for the summer and Jittrarast, Lionel, and JP who are doing the MSc projects in the group: icarusoceans.maynoothuniversity.ie?page_id=525

The recent study by van Westen and Baatsen, and many more since 2021, highlight the need for an updated assessment from the last IPCC report. I'm looking forward to working with a wide range of scientists on this assessment.

bsky.app/profile/germ...

In a busy day for AMOC news, I'm excited to take on the co-chair of the new JPI Climate and JPI Oceans expert-driven assessment of the latest science on the AMOC:

www.jpi-oceans.eu/en/shedding-...

This particular study is talking centuries so maybe a matchup in timescales!

Definitely something that's worth a thought experiment. I think it's important that these low-likelihood, high risk climate scenarios are considered in a decision making under uncertainty framework.