Research Brazil Ireland: Managing aquatic systems using in-situ sensor technology

Research Brazil Ireland: Managing aquatic systems using in-situ sensor technology The Research Brazil Ireland initiative, which is being funded by Science Foundation Ireland, is providing opportunities for Irish and Brazilian researchers to forge new collaborative links. One of the working groups which was formed this year is focused on monitoring of lakes and reservoirs using in-situ platform-based sensors to collect data at high frequencies. These data allow new insights into the processes that drive change in lakes at hourly and sub-hourly intervals. The group, which is led by Dr Eleanor Jennings (DkIT), and includes additional Irish partners in DkIT (Dr Valerie McCarthy), DCU (Prof. Fiona Regan and Prof. Dermot Diamond), and the Marine Institute (Dr Elvira de Eyto) hopes to gain new insights into the effects of short-term climate driven episodic events on carbon cycling. Prof. David da Motta Marques, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, came to Ireland in September for the first working group meeting, which was held in DCU. The group will meet again in February 2015 when SFI hold the 1st Brazil-Ireland Science Week, which will be held in Dublin from the 23rd to 26th February. Pictured (left to right) are Dr Elvira de Eyto, Dr Biel Obrador (Univeristy of Barcelona), Dr Eleanor Jennings, Prof. David da Motta Marques, Dr Valerie McCarthy, Prof. Fiona Regan, Dr Tim Sullivan (DCU).