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EPA Research Awards 2020

2020 Research Awards

A total of 46 awards were made in 2020, including strategic partnerships at national and international level.

Scheme	Awards Made	Funding Committed
2019 Climate Call (Reserve List)	2	€798,553
2019 Water Call (Reserve List)	1	€1,490,023
Green Enterprise Projects	4	€381,738
2020 - EPA-Irish Research Council Scholarship Scheme	7	€600,000
Fulbright-EPA Awards	2	€31,500
5 Year Assessment Report - Climate Research	7	€1,431,054
SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme	5	€1,008,700
Phase 3 EPA-ESRI Research Programme	10	€2,185,000
EPA-IPA Research Programme	1	€392,000
Co-funding towards 2019 DAFM Call	4	€500,000
Climate JPI SOLSTICE Joint transnational Call	1	€148,450
Other Awards	2	€105,049
TOTALS:	46	€9,072,067

A list of all awards made in 2020 can be found below.

EPA Research Climate Projects

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Project Type	Co-funded with
University College Cork (UCC)	John Wenger	Source Apportionment of Air Pollution in the Dublin Port Area	Large Scale Project	n/a
University of Birmingham	Nicholas Kettridge	Irish Peatland Resilience to changing climate and increased frequency and severity of drought	Medium Scale Project	NPWS

EPA Research Water Projects

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Project Type	Co-funded with
University College Dublin (UCD)	Michael Bruen	WFD Future Scenarios and Management Tools	Capability Development	DAFM

Green Enterprise Projects

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Project Type	Co-funded with
Irish Green Building Council	Pat Barry	Closing the loop on construction LCA	Green Enterprise	n/a
Polymer Alloy Technology Teo.	Adrian Doyle	Recycling Waste Farm Plastics into On-Farm Livestock Drinkers	Green Enterprise	n/a
John Gannon Concrete Ltd T/A Gannon Eco	Noeleen Fox	Replacement Aggregate for Cement Products	Green Enterprise	n/a
ÉireComposites Teoranta	Tomas Flanagan	Development of an innovative manufacturing process using RecyclAble REinforced Plastic for producing wind turbine blades	Green Enterprise	n/a

EPA-Irish Research Council Scholarships

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
Dublin City University	Blánaid White	Empire Evaluate - Effect based Monitoring for Environmental Pollution in Ireland and Evaluation of Mitigation Strategies to Minimise its Impact	Irish Research Council (IRC)
National University of Ireland, Galway	Audrey Morely	Providing Insights from Climate Archives (PICA): a multiproxy approach for the reconstruction of AMOC response to Quaternary climate events	Irish Research Council (IRC)
Technological University Dublin	Fintan Kelleher	Studies on Metabolites of Common Antibiotics in the Development of Antimicrobial Resistance (AM-AMR)	Irish Research Council (IRC)
University College Cork	Dean Venables	Spectroscopic Technology for Analysing Nitrogen Dioxide and Urgent Personal exposure measurements (STANDUP)	Irish Research Council (IRC)
University College Cork	Owen McIntyre	Private Transnational Environmental Regulation and Systemic Interactions in Global Environmental Governance	Irish Research Council (IRC)
University College Dublin	Eoghan Holoahan	A multi-data machine learning approach to identifying, mapping and characterising sinkhole populations in karst environments	Irish Research Council (IRC)
University College Dublin	Paul McCabe	Pharming of high value metabolites from transplastomic plant cells using bioreactors	Irish Research Council (IRC)

Fulbright-EPA Awards

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
University College Cork	Astrid Wingler	Carbon capture and soil carbon sequestration in annual and perennial grasslands	Fulbright Commission Ireland
University College Dublin	Holly English	Adaptive conservation management considering models of species population changes under climate change predictions	Fulbright Commission Ireland

5 Year Assessment Report - Climate Research

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
Dublin City University	Diarmuid Torney	5YAR - Writer Support Award – Volume 4	n/a
Maynooth University	Conor Murphy	5YAR - Writer Support Award - Volume 3	n/a
Maynooth University	David Smyth	5YAR Fellowship	n/a
Maynooth University	Peter Thorne	5YAR - Writer Support Award – Volume 1B	n/a
National University of Ireland Galway	Paul Nolan	5YAR - Writer Support Award – Volume 3B	n/a
University College Cork	Brian O'Gallachoir	5YAR - Writer Support Award – Volume 2A	n/a
University of Dublin, Trinity College	Jennifer McElwain	5YAR - Writer Support Award – Volume 1A	n/a

Science Foundation Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
University College Dublin	Shane Donohue	Geophysical and Earth Observation Tools for Evaluating the Condition of Slopes	Science Foundation Ireland
University of Dublin, Trinity College	Caroline Brophy	Achieving sustainable agri-ecosystems through advances in modelling and visualising the biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality relationship	Science Foundation Ireland
University of Dublin, Trinity College	Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco	SEparating Critical metals ThrOugh mineRal crystallization	Science Foundation Ireland
University of Dublin, Trinity College	Paula Colavita	Advancing the green transition via novel electrode materials for valorisation processes	Science Foundation Ireland
University of Dublin, Trinity College	Pepijn Luijckx	Can we use metabolic theory of ecology to predict disease outbreaks in a warming world?	Science Foundation Ireland

Phase 3 ESRI Research Programme

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI)	Anne Nolan	Consumption-based Greenhouse Gas Emissions	ESRI
Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI)	Anne Nolan	Health Effects of Drinking Water Quality in Ireland	ESRI
Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI)	Anne Nolan	The Social Distribution of Environmental Quality, Pollution and Health Outcomes	ESRI
Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI)	Anne Nolan	Estimating the Societal Costs of Illness caused by Environmental Pollutants	ESRI
Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI)	Anne Nolan	Health and Wellbeing Effects of a Clean and Healthy Environment and Environmental Amenities	ESRI
Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI)	Anne Nolan	Designing a Green, Equitable and Socially Acceptable Subsidy Scheme	ESRI
Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI)	Anne Nolan	Behaviourally-informed tests of radon testing and remediation communications	ESRI
Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI)	Anne Nolan	A diagnostic experiment to identify ways to improve communications with young people aged 13-25 years	ESRI
Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI)	Anne Nolan	A diagnostic experiment and randomised controlled trail to test ways to improve waste management	ESRI
Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI)	Anne Nolan	Green VAT Reform	ESRI

EPA-IPA Research Programme

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
Institute of Public Administration	Joanna O'Riordan	Experimental Governance with regard to Ireland’s Water Governance Structures and Processes	Institute of Public Administration

DAFM 2019 Strategic Partnership

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
Teagasc	Dominika Krol	Abating Ammonia in Agriculture	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine
Teagasc	Sinead Waters	Development and validation of novel technologies to reduce methane emissions from pasture based Irish agricultural systems	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine
University College Dublin	John O'Sullivan	Hydrological and sediment impacts of forestry operations in Ireland	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine
National University of Ireland, Galway	James Moran	High Nature Value Farmland and Forestry Systems for Biodiversity	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine

2019/2020 Climate JPI Solstice

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
National University of Ireland Galway	Gary Goggins	Challenging the Climate Crisis: Children’s Agency to TAckle Policy Underpinned by Learning for Transformation	SOLSTICE funders

Other Awards

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
Economic & Social Research Institute	Iulia Siedschlag	Ex-Post Analysis of the Impact of National Landfill Policy for GHG-Emissions in the Waste Sector	n/a
National University of Ireland Galway	Dearbhaile Morris	Research Gap Analysis - Antimicrobial Resistance and the Environment	n/a