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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 3d

#Áras25

Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · 28d

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.

icrag-centre.org - iCRAG

www.icrag-centre.org

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Tomas Buitendijk @tomasbuitendijk.bsky.social · 29d

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

www.rte.ie

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · 28d

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...

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

www.rte.ie

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Sep 1

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.

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Aug 22

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?

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Aug 13

sounds sketchy!

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Aug 13

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.

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Aug 11

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.

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Aug 4

Enjoy your visit!

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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.

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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

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

www.rte.ie

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Jul 17

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.

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Jul 17

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.

Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Jul 17

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.

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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · Jul 17

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...

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

www.rte.ie

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Jul 14

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

Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Jul 14

St Joe's Square.

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Jul 14

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

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Jul 3

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

Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Jun 12

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...

Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · Jun 12

Really striking new study from van Westen and Baatsen and a class visualisation tool to go with it. This study looks at a future where the AMOC has collapsed. Temperatures hitting -22ºC in Dublin in the winter is pretty stark. Hearing these numbers can be shocking and worrying.

amocscenarios.org

AMOC Collapse Visualisation Map

The interactive map that shows you the effects worldwide of climate change scenarios and the AMOC current collapsing

amocscenarios.org