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Dr Kieran Hickey

B.A., M.A.(University College Cork) D.Phil. (Coventry University) 1BA Year Co-ordinator
Room:	125 Arts Concourse Building
Tel:	091 492128
Fax:	091 495505
E-Mail:	kieran.hickeynuigalway.ie
Office Hours:	Strictly 12:00-13:00 Monday and Tuesday & 11:00 - 12:00 Wednesday
		Fox Glacier, South Island, New Zealand, 2007

Biography

From Cahir, Co. Tipperary, a town dominated by a castle, abbey, the River Suir and the Galty Mountains, it was impossible to grow up without an interest in all things geographical and to know and understand the environment of the town and its hinterland from a physical and human perspective. One of the best ways to know your own place is to explore other places and come back to it with a fresh perspective and gain new insights. As a result I have studied and worked in Armagh, Cork, Coventry, Kilkenny, Maynooth, Oxford and Scotland. I have been fortunate to have travelled to many European countries including Iceland, Slovenia, Croatia and Turkey aswell as Eqypt, Dubai, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, the USA and Canada.

My main research focus falls under the heading of historical and current climate change. Particular foci have been on patterns of storminess, historical and contemporary climate change in Ireland and elsewhere, hurricanes, coastal vulnerability to climate and sea-level rise in Ireland and elsewhere and the natural and cultural history of wolves in Ireland.

Teaching Involvement

TI 351 - Research Seminar in Recent Environmental Change

TI 318 - Climate Change

TI 225 - Physical Geography: Natural Hazards Incidence and Management

TI 151 - Principles of Physical Geography - 1BA Co-ordinator

MA in Landscape Archaeology

Graduate Supervision

Completed

M.Litt
Katie Sullivan (2007) The impact of the Kyoto Protocol on Ireland.
Niall O'Neill (2009) Flooding and sea-level change in Galway city.

Ph.D
Stephen Galvin (2011) The impact of the Tambora eruption of 1815 on the climate of
Ireland – 1816 the year with no summer (with Dr. Aaron Potito) (link)

In Progress

Ph.D (Part Time)
Colin Doyle (2007), Study of the Decision Making Process in Climate Change Poilicies and Strategies

Books

		Hickey K.R. (ed) (2012) Advances in Hurricane Research – Modelling, Meteorology, Preparedness and Impacts, Intech, Croatia, 198pp.

		Hickey K.R. (2011) Wolves in Ireland: A Natural and Cultural History, Open Air, Four Courts Press, Dublin

		Hickey K.R. (2010) Deluge: Ireland’s Weather Disasters, 2009-2010, Open Air, Four Courts Press, Dublin

		Hickey K.R. (2008) 5 Minutes to Midnight: Ireland and Climate Change, White Row Press, Belfast.

WEATHER AND CLIMATE RESEARCH

Apart from the two books above the following are my publications in this area:

McKeown M, Potito A. and Hickey K.R. (in press) The Long Term Instrumental Temperature Record from Markree Castle, Co. Sligo 1842-2011, Irish Geography.

Hickey K.R. (Mar 2013) The Weather and Climate of Co. Donegal, in McLoughlin J. and Beattie S.(eds) An Historical, Environmental and Cultural Atlas of Co Donegal, Cork University Press, p25-31.

Hickey K.R. (Nov 2012) The weather and climate of Co. Donegal, in McLoughlin J. (ed) The Atlas of Co Donegal, Cork University Press, p25-31.

Hickey K.R. (2012) Ireland will be hurt by sea-level Rise due to global warming in Berlatsky N. (ed) Water, Global Viewpoints Series, Gale, Cengage, New York, USA, p20-26.

Hickey K.R. (2011) The historic record of cold spells in Ireland, Irish Geography, 44 (2/3) p303-321.

Galvin S., Hickey K.R. and Potito A.P. (2011) Identifying volcano signals in Irish temperature observations since AD 1800, Irish Geography, 44 (1) p97-110.

Hickey K.R. (2011) The hourly gale record from Valentia Observatory, SW Ireland 1874-2008 and some observations on extreme wave heights in the NE Atlantic, Climatic Change, Vol. 106 (3) p483-506.

Ball T., Booth L.M., Duck R.W., Edwards A., Hickey K.R. and Werrity A. (2010) Coastal flooding in Scotland: Past, present and future, in Allsop W. (ed) Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters: Adapting to Change - Proceedings of the 9th
International Conference Organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers and Held in Edinburgh on 16 to 18 September 2009, p614-625.

Hanna E., Cappelen J., Allan R., Jonsson T., Le Blanq F., Lillington T. and Hickey K.R. (2008) New insights into North European and North Atlantic surface pressure variability, storminess and related climate change since 1830, Journal of Climate, Vol 21 (12), p6739-6766.

Dawson A.G, Hickey K.R., Mayewski P. and Nesje A. (2007) Greenland (GISP2) ice core and historical indicators of complex North Atlantic climate changes during the fourteenth century, The Holocene, Vol.17 (4) p.425-432.

Ansell T., Jones P.D., Allan R.J., Lister D., Parker D.E., Brunet M., Moberg A., Jacobeit J., Brohan P., Rayner N., Aguilar E., Alexandersson H., Barriendos M., Brandsma T., Cox N., Della-Marta P., Drebs A., Founda D., Gerstengarbe F., Hickey K.R., Jansson T., Luterbacher J., Nordli O., Oesterle H., Petrakis M. Philipp A., Rodwell M., Saladie O., Sigro J., Slonosky V., Srnec L., Swail V., Garcia-Suarez A.M., Tuomenvirta H., Wang X., Wanner H., Werner P., Wheeler D. and Xoplaki E. (2006) Daily Mean Sea Level Pressure Reconstructions for the European - North Atlantic Region for the period 1850-2003, Journal of Climate, Vol.19 (12), p2717-2742.

Hickey K.R. and Devoy R.J.N. (2005) The Climate of Cork, in Crowley J.S., Devoy R.J.N., Lenihan D. and O'Flanagan P. (eds) Atlas of Cork City, Cork University Press, p17-24.

Hickey K.R. (2005) Flooding in the City, in Crowley J.S., Devoy R.J.N., Lenihan D. and O'Flanagan P. (eds) Atlas of Cork City, Cork University Press, p25-31.

Hickey K.R., Dunlop P. and Hoare K with Gaffney F. (2005) Meteorological Data recorded at N.U.I. Galway: Volume 2 - Daily, Monthly, Seasonal and Annual Mean, Maximum and Minimum Temperature 1861-2000.

García-Suarez A.M., Park E., Butler C.J., Hickey K.R. and Grant A. (2005) Meteorological Data recorded at Armagh Observatory: Volume 3 – Meta-data 1796-2006, Armagh, Armagh Observatory.

Hickey K.R. (2005) Meteorological Data recorded at Armagh Observatory: Volume 5 – The Storminess Record, 1796-2002, Armagh, Armagh Observatory.

Dawson A., Elliott L., Noone S., Hickey K.R. Holt T. Wadhams P and Foster I. (2004) Historical Storminess and climate 'see-saws' in the North Atlantic Region, Marine Geology, Vol. 210, p247-259.

Dawson A.G., Elliott L., Mayewski P., Lockett P., Noone S., Hickey K.R., Holt T. Wadhams P. Foster I. (2003) Late Holocene North Atlantic climate “seesaws” and Greenland ice sheet (GISP2) paleoclimates, The Holocene, Vol. 13 (2), p381-392 - Special Issue on North Atlantic climate variability at decadal timescales.

Hickey K.R. (2003) The Storminess Record from Armagh Observatory 1796-1999. Weather, Vol. 58, No.1, p28-35.

Hickey K.R., Dunlop P. and Hoare K with Gaffney F. (2003) Meteorological Data recorded at N.U.I. Galway: Volume 1 - Weather Diary 1861-1966 and Daily, Monthly, Seasonal and Annual Pressure 1861-1920.

Hickey K.R. (2003) The Night of the Big Wind: The Impact of the Storm on Loughrea, in Forde J., Cassidy C., Manzor P. and Ryan D. (eds) The District of Loughrea: Volume 1 History 1791-1918, Loughrea History Project, p130-142.

Hickey K.R. (2003) A Preliminary Assessment of the Meteorological Archives from N.U.I. Galway 1861-1966, Journal of the Galway Historical and Archaeological Society Vol. 55, p117-126.

Dawson A.G., Hickey K.R., Dawson S., Elliott L., Foster I.D.L., Wadhams P., Holt T. Jonsdottir J., Wilkinson J., Smith D.E. and Davis N. (2002) Complex North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index signal of historic North Atlantic storm track changes, The Holocene, Vol. 12 (3), p363-369.

Hickey K.R. (2002) Water Quality Issues in the West Of Ireland, in McDonagh J. (ed) Economy, Society and Peripherality: Experiences from the West of Ireland, Dublin, Arlen Academic, p241-250.

García-Suarez A.M., Butler C.J., Cardwell D., Coughlin A.D.S., Donnelly A., Fee D.T., Hickey K.R., Morrow B. and Taylor T. (2002) Meteorological Data recorded at Armagh Observatory: Volume 1 – Daily, Monthly and Annual Rainfall 1838-2001, Armagh, Armagh Observatory.

Hickey K.R. (2001) The Impact of the 31st January 1953 Storm on Scotland, Scottish Geography Journal, Volume 117 (4), p283-295.

Dawson A.G., Hickey K.R., McKenna J. and Foster I.D.L. (1997) A 200-Year Record of Gale Frequency, Edinburgh, Scotland: Possible Links with High-Magnitude Volcanic Eruptions, The Holocene, Volume 7, Number 3, p337-342.

Tyrrell J.G. and Hickey K.R. (1992) A Flood Chronology for Cork City and its Climatological Background, Irish Geography, Volume 24, (2), p81-90.

HURRICANE RESEARCH

Apart from the edited book above the following are my publications in this area:

Hickey K.R. and Connolly-Johnston C. (in press) A review of the 2011 Hurricane, Tropical Cyclone and Typhoon Season, International Journal of Meteorology

Hickey K.R. and Connolly Johnston C. (2013) The Impact of Hurricane Debbie (1961) and Hurricane Charley (1986) on Ireland, in Hickey K.R. (ed) Advances in Hurricane Research – Modelling, Meteorology, Preparedness and Impacts, Intech, Croatia p.183-198.

Hickey K.R. (2011) The Impact of Hurricanes on the Weather of Western Europe in Lupo A. (ed) Recent Hurricane Research – Climate, Dynamics, and Societal Impacts, InTech, Croatia, p77-84.

Hickey K.R. (2011) A review of the 2010 Hurricane, Tropical Cyclone and Typhoon Season, International Journal of Meteorology, Vol. 36, (364) p269-272.

Hickey K.R. (2010) A review of the 2009 Hurricane, Tropical Cyclone and Typhoon Season, International Journal of Meteorology, Vol. 35, (353) p307-310.

Hickey K.R. (2009) A review of the 2008 Hurricane, Tropical Cyclone and Typhoon Season, International Journal of Meteorology, Vol. 34, (341) p233-236.

Wolf and Natural History Research

Apart from the wolf book above the following are my publications in this area:

Hickey K.R. (Apr 2013) New wolf evidence for Ireland, Askeaton Community Arts Group, Co. Limerick

Hickey K.R. (2009) Where have all the wolves gone?, Fenwick J. (ed) Lost and Found II Discovering Ireland's Past, Dublin, Wordwell, p29-40.

Hickey K.R. (2005) The History of Wolves in Ireland, Wolfprint. Issue 24, p10-13.

Hickey K.R. (2003) Wolves - forgotten Irish hunter, Wild Ireland, Vol. 4 (3) p10-13.

Hickey K.R. (2000) A Geographical Perspective on the Decline and Extermination of the Irish wolf Canis lupus – An Initial Assessment, Irish Geography, Vol. 33 (2) p134-147.

Discipline of Geography
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland
Tel.: +353 (0)91 49 2643
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