PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork

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· Sweeney, OFM; Martin, RD; Irwin, S; Kelly, TC; O’Halloran, J; Wilson, MW; McEvoy, PM (2010) ‘A lack of large-diameter logs
and snags characterises dead wood patterns in Irish forests’. Forest Ecology and Management, 259:2056-2064.
· Sweeney, OFM; Wilson, M; Irwin, S; Kelly, TC; O’Halloran, J (2010) ‘The influence of a native tree species mix component on
bird communities in non-native coniferous plantations in Ireland’. Bird Study.
· Sweeney, Oisin F; Wilson, Mark W; Irwin, Sandra; Kelly, Thomas C; O’Halloran, John (2010) ‘Breeding bird communities of
second-rotation plantations at different stages of the forest cycle’. Bird Study, 57 (3):301-314.
· Thierens, M; Titschack, J; Dorschel, B; Huvenne, VAI; Wheeler, AJ; Stuut, JBW; O’Donnell, R (2010) ‘The 2.6 Ma depositional
sequence from the Challenger cold-water coral carbonate mound (IODP Exp. 307): sediment contributors and
hydrodynamic palaeo-environments’. Marine Geology, 271:260-277.
· Todd, E; Gill, JB; Wysoczanski, RJ; Handler, MR; Wright, IC; Gamble, JA (2010) ‘Sources of constructional cross-chain
volcanism in the southern Havre Trough: New insights from HFSE and REE concentration and isotope systematics’.
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11.
· Wheeler, AJ; Kozachenko, M; Henry, LA; Foubert, A; De Haas, H; Huvenne, V; Masson, G; Olu-Le Roy, K (2010) ‘The Moira
Mounds, small cold-water coral banks in the Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic: Part A — an early stage growth phase for
future coral carbonate mounds?’. Marine Geology.
· White, M; Dorschel, B (2010) ‘The importance of the permanent thermocline to the cold water coral carbonate mound
distribution in the NE Atlantic’. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 296:395-402.
· Wilson, MW; Gittings, T; Kelly, TC; O’Halloran, J (2010) ‘The importance of non-crop vegetation for bird diversity in Sitka
spruce plantations in Ireland’. Bird Study, 57:116-120.
Conference Publications
· D’Arcy, A; O’Halloran, J (2010) An LCA of potato production in Ireland: impacts on ecology and environment VII
international conference on life cycle assessment in the agri-food sector Bari Italy, 2010-09-22- 2010-09-24.
· Fontaine, M.C; Tolley, KA; Michaux, JR; Birkun, A; Ferreira, M; Jauniaux, T; Llavona, A; Öztürk, B; Ayaka, A; Öztürk, AA;
Ridoux, V; Rogan, E; Sequeira, M; Bouquegneau, JM; Baird, SJE (2010) Genetic And Historic Evidence For Climate-Driven
Population Fragmentation In A Top Cetacean Predator: The Harbour Porpoises In European Water Proceedsing of the Royal
Society.
· Murphy, C; Kelliher, D; Davenport, J (2010) A nonlinear finite element inverse approach to characterize the material
properties of tracheal cartilage ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference: SBC2010 Naples, Florida, USA, 2010-06-16-
2010-06-19.
· O’Herlihy, E; Doyle-Prestwich, B; Wall, G (2010) An in vitro study to examine the potential of mutation breeding to create
resistance to bacterial wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum) in tomato 8th International Horticulture Congress.
· O’Herlihy, E; Velivelli, SLS; Doyle-Prestwich, B (2010) Selection criteria for rhizobacteria for plant health improvement 5th
EPSO Conference: ’Plants for Life’.
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
Book Chapters
· Brown, M; Kehoe, A; Kirakowski, J; Pitt, IJ (2010) ‘Beyond the Gamepad: HCI and Game Controller Design and Evaluation’
In: Bernhaupt R (Eds.). Evaluating User Experience in Games. Berlin: Springer.
· Dan Cristian Marinescu, John Patrick Morrison, and Howard Jay Siegel (2009) ‘Options and Commodity Markets for
Computing Resources’ In: Rajkumar Buyya (Editor), Kris Bubendorfer (Editor) (Eds.). Market-Oriented Grid and Utility
Computing. UK: Wiley.
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