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Extinct plants, video games and sustainability all have one thing in common. Our amazing speakers will be talking about all this and more at our event this evening. Join us at 7pm at JR Mahon's to hear more!
Bringing Extinct Plants Back to Life
Will Matthaeus
(Post-doctoral Research Fellow, TCD)
Plants have covered much of the land for over 400 million years. Angiosperms have only dominated for 60 million years. For much of this time, plants and ecosystems on lands were alien. I use measurements from plant fossils and modeling to re-animate alien plants to understand what their ecosystems were like.
Buiding biodiversity baselines - can we gamify it?
Grace Nolan
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UCD)
Do the Irish public know what biodiversity means? Can they identify what wildlife and plants should and shouldn’t be in Ireland? This talk will explore these questions and propose a new way of collecting this data – through video games.
Sustainable Food Systems: What the Fork Can Citizens Do?
Nicole Olweean
(PhD Student, University of Galway )
In this talk, we’ll explore how citizens interact with the food system, what citizens in Ireland are prepared to do to make their food practices more sustainable, and what could help them do it.
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