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Dr Kieran Hickey

B.A., M.A.(University College Cork) D.Phil. (Coventry University)
Room:	125 Arts Concourse Building
Tel:	091 492128
Fax:	091 495505
E-Mail:	kieran.hickeynuigalway.ie
Office Hours:	Strictly 12:00-13:00 Monday, Tuesday, 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 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 and global warming. Particular foci have been on patterns of storminess, historical and contemporary climate change in Ireland and elsewhere, 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

MA in Landscape Archaeology

Graduate Supervision

Completed

M.Litt
Niall O'Neill (2005) Flooding and sea-level change in Galway city.
Katie Sullivan(2007) The impact of the Kyoto Protocol on Ireland.

In Progress

Ph.D
Stephen Galvin (2005) The impact of the Tambora eruption of 1815 on the climate of Ireland - 1816 the year with no summer
(with Dr. Aaron Potito).
David Scallan (2005) The contribution of countryside sports to the rural landscape and economy. (with Dr. John McDonagh)
Agnelli Rico Santiago (2003) Analysing the effects and influences of physiographic parameters on bryophyte habitat distribution, fragmentation and conservation.

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

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

Articles and Chapters in Books

Hickey K.R. (in press) The hourly storminess record from Valentia Observatory 1900-2008, Journal of Climatic Change.

Ball T., Booth L., Duck R., Edwards A., Hickey K.R. and Werrity A. ( in press)
Coastal Flooding in Scotland: Past, Present and Future. Special Issue Proceedings of the ICE Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters Conference.

Hickey K.R. (in press) A review of the 2008 Hurricane, Tropical Cyclone and Typhoon Season, International Journal of Meteorology.

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.

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.

Coastal Research

Related to the climate research is research on the coastal-climate interface, the main project currently being undertaken is ’Vulnerability of the coastlines of Cos. Galway, Mayo and Donegal to climate and sea-level change and human interference’.
This three year project is due for completion by May 2006 and was funded under the EU Interreg 3b Coastatlantic programme to the tune of 38,000. This project is only a small part of the overall project involving the NASC region in Ireland (the counties with Gaeltacht areas, Udaras na Galetachta and NUI Galway). At the next level up there are 12 EU regions involved in the project with Asturias being the overall co-ordinator.

Hickey K.R. and Dunlop P. and Colgan C. (2006) The Vulnerabiliity of the Coastlines of Counties Galway, Mayo and Donegal to Climate Change with References to Human Activities, Unpublished Report.

Hickey K.R. and Healy M.G. (2005) The reclamation of the Shannon Estuary inter-tidal flats: A case study of the Clare Slobland Reclamation Company, Irish Geography, Vol.38 (1), p96-106.

Healy M.G. and Hickey K.R. (2002) Land Reclamation on the Shannon Estuary, Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 36, p.365-373, Proceedings International Coastal Symposium, 2002.

Wolf Research

This has been an ongoing background research project which I have been pursuing over the last 8 years or so and will probably carry on indefinitely as more and more material comes to light. Obviously if you are aware of any wolf material related to Ireland I would love to hear from you as I am sure I have missed a lot of material. My contact details are above.
A flavour of the research can be gotten from the following publications:

Hickey K.R. (in press) Where have all the wolves gone?, in Fenwick J. (ed) Lost and Found Discovering Ireland's Past 2

Hickey K.R. (in press) A geographical perspective on the decline and extermination of the Irish wolf Canis lupus – An Initial Assessment, in van den Berg H. and Zantingh T. (eds) Irish Wolfhounds:Paw Prints Through Recent History,

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.

In Preparation

Hickey K.R. (book) The Natural and Cultural History of Wolves in Ireland.

Other Publications

1) 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.

Department of Geography
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0)91 492643
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