Trinity College Dublin's Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics & Science focuses on environmental and climate change research through its two schools, Natural Sciences and Engineering, with significant funding and international collaboration. Over a decade, research contracts totaled €36.89 million, addressing topics like biodiversity, climate impacts, and health related to environmental changes. Notable projects include a €3.38 million FP7 collaborative award studying vector-borne diseases in East Africa.

1. Trinity College Dublin
Two schools in the Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics & Science
mainly involved in environmental/climate change research:
Natural Sciences Engineering
Total research €24.46million €26.93million
income (Oct 99-
Sept 09)
Number of full-time 36 48
academic staff
Number of research 27 44
staff
Number of PhD 133 162
students
Number of MSc 55 136
students (research
and taught)

2. Research capacity relevant to environment
Well-equipped environmental research facilities (field & lab)
Environmental research at TCD is global & involves much international
collaboration
Output in high impact journals, including Nature
School of Natural Sciences (Centre for Environment & Centre for
Biodiversity and Sustainable Development)
290 research contracts amounting to €27.4 million (2000-2008)
Climate change impacts, biodiversity, conservation,
environmental policy, water resources, GHG, human-
environment interactions
School of Engineering (Environmental engineering, Centre for Transport
Research & Innovation)
68 research contracts amounting to €9.5 million (2000-2008)
Environment & health and climate change & hydrological
response

3. Theme 6 topics of particular interest
Pressures on environment & climate (sub-activity 6.1.1)
climate impacts in Europe, Africa & Asia, impact modelling, carbon
& GHG budgets, water resources
Environment & health (sub-activity 6.1.2)
water-related health, transport-related air & health impacts
(including air pollution modelling)
Natural hazards (sub-activity 6.1.3)
forest fires & climate change, urban flooding
Conservation & sustainable management (sub-activity 6.2.1)
biodiversity, forest management, sustainable development of
coastal cities, hydrology of wetlands
Management of marine environments (sub-activity 6.2.2)
ecosystem-based management, seafloor sampling, ICZM
Environmental technologies (sub-activity 6.3.1)
water supply & sanitation systems, waste management, reducing
vulnerability to flooding
Earth & ocean observation (sub-activity 6.4.1)
systems for environmental monitoring & modelling
Dissemination & horizontal activities (sub-activity 6.5.1)

4. Involvement in EU-funded, environment-related projects
(Oct 1999- Sept 2009)
Projects funded through FP4,5,6,7,INTERREG, INTAS, Marie Curie etc.
School of Natural Sciences
33 EU research contracts to 12 PIs in School amounting to €2.52 (including
FP5 ACCROTELM [past climate change variability in Europe] & BUFFER [Key
nutrient transfer mechanisms], FP6 IMECC [European
Carbon cycle ], FP7 CREATING [collaborative research in eastern Africa on
global change])
School of Engineering
30 EU research contracts to 7 PIs in School amounting to €7.49 million
(including BRITE EURAM [solidification of waste], ENVIRONMENT
[hydromorphology of wetlands], TEMPUS [environment education, Poland],
INCO [environmental impact of opencast coal mines], FP6 [models for urban
flood prediction, wind energy generation], INTERREG [environmental risk to
structures; pyrolysis of waste] )

5. ‘HEALTHY FUTURES’ – New FP7 Environment
Collaborative award to School of Natural Sciences,
TCD
• Title: Health, environmental change and adaptive capacity:
mapping, examining and anticipating future risks of water-related
vector-borne diseases in eastern Africa
• Type of funding scheme: Theme 6: Environment (including climate
change) - Collaborative Project (Specific International Co-operation
Actions (SICA))
• Topic addressed: ENV.2010.1.2.1-1 The effect of environmental
change on the occurrence and distribution of water related vector-
borne diseases in Africa
• Coordinator: Prof. David Taylor (School of Natural Sciences, TCD),
with 14 partners (inc. partners in Rwanda, UK, Ireland, Italy, Kenya,
Austria, Tanzania, Uganda, S. Africa).
• Funding: Total EC contribution ~ €3.38M (approx. €1.2M to Irish
partners).

6. Contact details:
Professor Celia Holland
Director of Research, School of Natural Sciences
( cholland@tcd.ie )
Professor Anil Kokaram
Director of Research, School of Engineering
( anil.kokaram@tcd.ie )
Dr. David Lloyd
Dean of Research, Trinity College, University of Dublin
( dean.of.research@tcd.ie )