Authors: Anne Morrissey, Declan McGlade, Kieran Nolan, Brid Quilty and Jenny Lawler, December 2017
Year: 2017
This report provides a summary of the findings of the research on the design, development and testing of a novel drinking water treatment system using a combination of filtration and nanostructured composites for the removal of inorganic, organic and microbiological contaminants from water.
Authors: John Curtis and Stephen Hynes, November 2017
Year: 2017
The objective of this research was to determine how water-based recreational activities in Ireland are affected by differences in water quality across recreational sites.
Authors: Connie O’Driscoll, Liwen Xiao, Xinmin Zhan, Bruce Misstear and Francesco Pilla, November 2017
Year: 2017
Ireland has an unacceptably high number of drinking water supplies that exceed the parametric value of 100 μg L-1 for total trihalomethanes (THMs) and has been reporting the highest non-compliance with respect to total THMs in drinking water across the 27 EU Member States.
Authors: Michael Bruen, Anna Rymszewicz, John O’Sullivan, Jonathan Turner, Damian Lawler, Elizabeth Conroy and Mary Kelly-Quinn, November 2017
Year: 2017
The SILTFLUX project addressed three major objectives related to sediment pollution in rivers.
Authors: Alec Rolston, Eleanor Jennings, Suzanne Linnane and David Getty, November 2017
Year: 2017
The benefits and disservices received by people and ecosystems within catchments are called catchment services and disservices. Their delivery can be influenced by multiple factors including climate, legislative/policy and social (demographic) change.
Annex to Review of Current Priorities and Emerging Issues in European Waste Policy, October 2017
Year: 2017
Annex to the Report: Review of Current Priorities and Emerging Issues in European Waste Policy
Year: 2017
This report sets out to assess key current issues, and important emerging issues, in the waste policy arena in the European Commission, and in selected Member States.
Authors: Gerard Kiely, Paul Leahy, Ciaran Lewis, Xianli Xu and Matteo Sottocornola, October 2017
Year: 2017
Research 225 on SoilC - Feasibility of Grassland Soil Carbon Survey
Authors: Donal Keane, Suresh Pillai, Lorraine Gibson, Justin Holmes and Michael Morris, September 2017
Year: 2017
EPA Research Report 226 on An Investigation into Air Purification of Malodorous Methyl Mercaptan by Photocatalysis and Adsorption
Author: J. Andrew Kelly, September 2017
Year: 2017
Research 224 on Integrated Modelling Project Ireland
Authors: Margaret Desmond, Phillip O’Brien and Frank McGovern, September 2017
Year: 2017
Research 223: A Summary of the State of Knowledge on Climate Change Impacts for Ireland
Authors: John Devaney, John Redmond, Brian Barrett, Grace Cott and John O’Halloran, September 2017
Year: 2017
Research 221 on 21st Century Deforestation in Ireland
A report commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency Research Programme, September 2017
Year: 2017
Best Practices from the European Implementation Reviews of Environmental Law in the EU-28 Countries
Authors: Celine McInerney and Joseph Curtin, August 2017
Year: 2017
Research Report 220 on Financial Incentives to Promote Citizen Investment in Low-carbon and Resource-efficient Assets
Authors: Barry O’Dwyer and Jeremy Gault, August 2017
Year: 2017
Research Report 222 on The Development of an Irish Climate Information Platform (ICIP) – Phase 2
Authors: Lisa O’Donoghue and Paul Moroney, August 2017
Year: 2017
Research Report 201 detailing the Investigation of Liquid Crystal Displays as a Source of Indium
Authors: Edel Hannigan and Mary Kelly-Quinn, July 2017
Year: 2017
Research Report 219 Characterising the Biological Communities of Rare River Types
Authors: Ahmed Elssidig Nasr and Paul Hynds, June 2017
Year: 2017
Research Report 218 on the Assessment of the Hydrometric Network and Hydrodynamic Behaviour of Small Irish Catchments
Authors: Cathriona Cahill and Cora Plant, June 2017
Year: 2017
EPA Research Report 217 on the Beneficial Use of Old Landfills as a Parkland Amenity
Authors: Karla Dussan and Rory Monaghan, June 2017
Year: 2017
EPA Research 216 detailing Thermodynamic Modelling of Energy Recovery Options from Digestate at Wastewater Treatment Plants