The Worsening Water Crisis, Part 2: Coastal Boulder Displacement on the West Coast of Ireland

Episode Topic: Coastal Boulder Displacement on the West Coast of Ireland

Notre Dame Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Andrew Kennedy discusses his research in connection to the West of Ireland which focuses on waves, surge, and currents in the coastal ocean and their effects on human activities. Parts of this work are observational, ranging from the rapid deployment of wave and surge gauges in advance of hurricane landfalls, to the analysis of very large-scale bathymetric lidar datasets to determine morphological changes during large storms.

Featured Speakers: 

• Lisa Caulfield, Director of the Kylemore Global Centre in Connemara, Ireland, University of Notre Dame
• Andrew Kennedy, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/05159d. 

This podcast is a part of the Global Dialogues ThinkND Series titled “The Worsening Water Crisis”.

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