Peatland Utilisation and Research in Ireland Dublin 2006

Peatland Utilisation and Research in Ireland

Dublin, Ireland, 2006

Proceedings of the 1st Seminar of the Irish National Committee of the International Peat Society

Editor: Catherine A. Farrell

A4, 68 pages

ISBN 0 9514890 3 8

Contents

Message from the IPS Secretary General by Jaakko Silpola

Introduction by John Feehan

Developing & implementing "Wise Use" with respect to mires, peatlands and peat by Donal Clarke

A brief history of the peat industry in Ireland by Donal Clarke

Peatland archeology since 1999: results and areas for future research by Jane Whitaker

Energy peat in Ireland by Patrick Fitzgerald

Peat in horticulture by Munoo Prasad and Michael J. Maher

Bord na Móna industrial cutaway boglands by Tom Egan

Peatland restoration: a review of current practice and applications by Catherine A. Farrell

The IPCC Lodge Bog conservation plan by Caroline Hurley and Catherine O'Connell

Peatland conservation by Caitriona Douglas and James B. Ryan

Northern Ireland peatlands by Roy W. Tomlinson

Bogland project: A research programme to develop a protocol for the sustainable management of peatlands in Ireland by Florence Renou

Climate change, carbon and Irish peatlands by David Wilson

Using GIS and remote sensing to study the Irish peatland resource by John Connolly and Nicholas Holden

High-resolution multi-proxy records from Atlantic peat deposits: Central Ireland. A contribution to the ACCROTELM project by P.O. Oksanen, B. Stefanini, A. Bllundell, D. Charman and F.J.G. Mitchell

Seminar programme

Index to authors, advertisers, keywords and titles

Supported by Klasmann-Deilmann GmbH, Edenderry Power Limited, the Electricity Supply Board, and Bord na Móna

Copyrights 2006 Irish Peat Society and individual authors.

About the Editor

Dr. Catherine Farrell is a native of Co. Westmeath and is currently based at the Bord na Móna Boora offices in Co. Offaly. She graduated from UCD in 1996 in Environmental Biology (Botany and Zoology), and then undertook a postgraduate research project at the Department of Botany (now the School of Biology and Environmental Science), University College Dublin. Her research was primarily on the priority habitat Atlantic blanket bog, and the effects of industrial peat production at the Oweninny Works in North-West Mayo. There was a strong focus on restoration of peat-forming plant communities and peat stabilisation to mitigate effects on the surrounding catchments. She was awarded a doctorate in 2001, and from that time has been a peatland ecology researcher with Bord na Móna. Her main work to date has been the development and successful implementation of the rehabilitation of the Oweninny Peatlands. She is now working on land-use categorisation and after-uses of the broader industrial peatland resource. She also consults at a number of levels in Bord na Móna on environmental issues and represents the company at the national and international scientific level.