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Mary Bourke

@megafloods.bsky.social
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Professor in Geography, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Geomorphology, Nature-based Solutions, Hazards, Floods, landslides, Rock Coasts, Coastal Erosion, Science Communication. earthandplanetary.wordpress.com

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Mary Bourke @megafloods.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
PhD scholarship available in modelling water quality NbS measures. info here earthandplanetary.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/p...
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Mary Bourke @megafloods.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
PhD scholarship available in modelling water quality NbS measures. info here earthandplanetary.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/p...
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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
A community effort by #ISROC network to standardise field data collection in coastal boulder research - funded by #NSF - starring Rónadh Cox @megafloods.bsky.social @tsunamiboulder.bsky.social @shoreplatform.bsky.social 🪨⛏️🛰️📸 #preprint #NHESS @egu.eu @nh.egu.eu doi.org/10.5194/egus...
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Understanding extreme-wave hazards on high-energy coasts requires a standardised approach to field data collection: Analysis and recommendations
Abstract. Coastal boulder deposits provide vital information on extreme wave events. They are crucial for understanding storm and tsunami impacts on rocky coasts, and for understanding long-term hazar...
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Max Engel @drmaex.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The #isroc global database for coastal boulder deposits is up and running doi.org/10.17603/ds2... Read about it in #marinegeology authors.elsevier.com/c/1l6bq5mVe1...
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Mary Bourke @megafloods.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I was so proud to listen to my 4 undergrad students deliver their first National conference presentation at the Geomorphological Association of Ireland meeting.
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Mary Bourke @megafloods.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🪧The launch of the STRATA project website. Funded by @geolsurvie.bsky.social . We are assessing the potential of Sentinal 1 data to detect coastal rockfalls. sites.google.com/view/stratap...
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Ann Walsh @amkwalsh.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Please spread the word🙏. #climate #forestry #wind #solar #farming
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Mary Bourke @megafloods.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Enjoying the lecture and panel discussion tonight at the The Road Irish academy thanks @seismatters.bsky.social for a thought provoking discussion.
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Mary Bourke @megafloods.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
We need responses from Ireland's researchers and land managers on this survey about #NbS for #floods in a #ClimateEmergency Survey link: bit.ly/4iozHzQ
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Nature Based Solutions International Survey
This survey aims to identify how Nature Based Solutions are being planned and implemented to address flood mitigation across different countries.
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Mary Bourke @megafloods.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Sea defences near Rosslare Strand, Ireland. “You might think that the sea is company, Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs, But no: when it begins, the flung spray hits The very windows, spits like a tame cat Turned savage.” Seamus Heaney (Storm on the Island) #BSGAC24 @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social
Stones wedged between wave-worn groyne logs
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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🧪⚒️ “I doubt that it is a coincidence that 2024 has seen exceptional global atmospheric and sea surface temperatures, and as a consequence there have been very high peak rainfall intensities”
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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🧪⚒️Join us online for the 1st #WARR of 2025. This month: #wildfire #impacts on #stream #ecosystems #WomenInSTEM 16 Jan, 11 AM ET Xingyuan Chen + Alison Appling Join us for two short talks & a lively Q&A Register here: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...
Women Advancing River Research Lecture Series January announcement
Hot water: Integrated modeling for watershed fire impacts & in-stream thermal habitats
speakers: Xingyuan Chen, Pacific Northwestern Lab & Alison Appling, US Geological Survey

Jan 16, 11 AM eastern standard time
register here: https://www.cee.psu.edu/events/women-advancing-river-research.aspx
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Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water @climatecocentre.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
We're hiring a Research Assistant/Associate to join the team @UniofNewcastle! They will work on the development of a weather generator to downscale climate projections over the UK and Ireland. More details and apply here: buff.ly/40iYRsX 📅 Deadline: 2nd Feb 2025
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Research Assistant/Associate Weather Generator
Research Assistant/Associate Weather Generator
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
And here it starts....the first light pushing inwards, seeding the new summer to come. It's beautiful, this day we connect to people 5000 years ago. No other profession can say that. It's why archaeologist4lyfe.darkbess can only come in so far. Then light wins. BLESSED SOLSTICE .
The first sherd of sunlight entering Newgrange megalithic structure
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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We are poking the sleeping bear of permafrost thaw with a short stick. Last year in the Arctic Circle was the 2nd warmest since 1900. The nine warmest years have been the last nine years. The Arctic tundra is now a net emitter of greenhouse gases, not a sink.
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Ann O’Dea @annodea.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Great news, but what took them so long? A true Irish art
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BSG Geomorphology @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Check out our latest newsletter for research highlights from Tim Baxter, Matthew Fox & Jin-Gen Dai, updates from our new president and sub-committees and to find out how to enter our newly defined art competition - which you can now enter on bluesky! #BSGAC24 geomorphology.org.uk/app/uploads/... 🏔️🪨
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Mary Bourke @megafloods.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Beautiful weather yesterday to assess the geomorphic response of soft cliffs on Ireland’s east coast to #StormBert
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Mary Bourke @megafloods.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Our Nature Based Solutions for Floods are in action today during #StormBert . Iv'e posted a short blog here: tinyurl.com/26dytdxe
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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Just one example of what Farming For Nature has to teach the rest of us. Sinead Moran from Gleann Bui Farm near Knock, Co Mayo shared this and more wisdom on Countrywide yesterday. Listen 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...
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Farming For Nature
Mayo farmer Sinéad Moran, one of the earlier ambassadors of the Farming For Nature scheme, speaks about what she has learned and how the scheme helped her business. And we look at the new handbook by ...
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
An ERA5 animation showing the unprecedented November 2024 Typhoon outbreak in the Western Pacific Ocean. Just incredible.
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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
#Hydrology and #geomorphology can help us better understand environmental suitability for #malaria transmission. I’m excited to give this BSG seminar in two weeks with examples of our research from the last decade. That pic of me itself is at least a decade old 😂
Advert for the BSG seminar series on 2nd December. The talk is called Follow the Water: incorporating hydrology and geomorphology into estimate of malaria environmental suitability
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Abi Stone @abistone.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Thinking of heading to #Pages2025 7th Open Science Meeting, Shanghai? Have an interest in all things windy? 💨 Session 17 might be the one for you Abstract deadline is approaching Dec 1st, 2024 www.pages2025.org.cn/Data/List/Se... #aeolian #eolian #drylands #landscape #geomorphology #Quaternary
Wind blowing sand off the crest of a 30 m high dune in the Namib Sand SeaText from website - visit here https://www.pages2025.org.cn/Data/List/Sessions
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Anja Murray @miseanja.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Have a listen to the back catalogue of my weekly radio slot, Nature File on RTE lyric fm, exploring the lesser known realms of nature in Ireland, each 7 mins long. Described by @hannahdaly.bsky.social as "a lovely & accessible celebration of Ireland's nature" www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...
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Naturefile - RTÉ Podcasts
Naturefile is a celebratory journey to the lesser-known realms of nature in Ireland with Anja Murray. With surprising stories uncovered each week, about everything from lichens to trees, Swallows to S...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this. Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.
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Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky
It’s not just an Alf pics repository.
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Lina Polvi Sjöberg @fluvialsweden.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Time to start planning for #EGU25 ! Work on any aspect of riverscape restoration? Submit to session GM10.2. Deadline is Jan 15th but never too early! Early career scientists can apply for support if submit by Dec 2nd.
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Samuele Papeschi サムエレ パペスキ | Geology is the way ⚒️🧪 @calamitaman.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Free trypophobia Tatsukushi coast, Shikoku, Japan ⚒️🧪🗾 #tafoni #honeycombweathering #geology
Tafoni, structures produced by salt weathering of sandstones near the coastTafoni, structures produced by salt weathering of sandstones near the coastTafoni, structures produced by salt weathering of sandstones near the coastTafoni, structures produced by salt weathering of sandstones near the coast
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