Stephanie Keogh

Contact details
Room 1.8
St. Anne's Building
North Campus
Tel: +353 1 708 6392
Email: stephanie.keogh@nuim.ie

Biography

Stephanie completed her undergraduate studies in NUIM in 2009 graduating with First Class Honours in Geography. A continuing interest in climate-human interactions motivated her to pursue a Masters in Climate Change in the Geography Department, from which she graduated with First Class Honours in 2010. Her master's thesis entitled The Energy Balance of the Urban Surface, focussed on two instrumented sites in Dublin. Both the radiation and energy budgets of a typical urban and suburban environment were investigated from high resolution observations obtained from micrometeorological instruments deployed at both sites. Stephanie is now pursuing her doctoral degree in ICARUS.

Thesis

Quantifying carbon dioxide concentrations and fluxes for Dublin.
Supervisors: Dr Rowan Fealy
Dr Gerald Mills (UCD)

Project Description
Traditionally atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations have been measured in remote environments so as to eliminate industrial and urban effects when capturing background concentrations. Increasingly evident however is the necessity to investigate urban atmospheric concentrations given firstly, the increased proportion of the global population who now reside in urban environments, and secondly, the disproportionate emissions that are sourced there. This project proposes to quantify CO2 concentrations for Dublin, from two existing instrumented sites, a suburban, homogeneous environment and an inner city, heterogeneous environment. The temporal and spatial nature of fluxes will be examined in conjunction with socio-economic datasets and local land use characteristics in order to assign differing geographical contributions to CO2 emissions.

Funding

John & Pat Hume Scholarship
NUIM Graduate Studies Office Postgraduate Travel Award to attend and present at the European Geosciences Union , General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 4-8, 2011.
Postgraduate Travel Scholarship, The Croucher Advanced Study Institute, 2011-2011, Urban Climatology on Tropical and Sub-Tropical Regions, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Dec 5-10, 2011.

Presentations

1 February 2011: Research briefing presented to Dr Mary Robinson and Dr Tara Shine of the Mary Robinson Foundation on Climate Justice, Title: Measuring CO2 in Urban Environments, Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units, Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

11 March 2011: Quantifying CO2 concentrations and fluxes for the urban surface: Two locations in Dublin, The Irish Postgraduate Training Consortium held in the Glencree Reconciliation Centre, Dublin, Ireland.

4 April 2011: The energy budget of the urban surface: Two locations in Dublin, Climate Session CL2.16, Urban climate, urban heat island and urban biometeorology, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria. Funded by the Postgraduate Travel Fund, NUIM.

8 May 2011: The energy budget of the urban surface: Two locations in Dublin, Urban Climate Session, The Conference of Irish Geographers 2011, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.

5-10 December 2011: The energy balance of a European city (Poster presentation), The Croucher Advanced Study Institute 2011-2011, Urban Climatology on Tropical and Sub-Tropical Regions, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

14 February 2012: Measuring Urban Fluxes for Dublin: Methodological Considerations and Preliminary Results, PM12 Connect Project, Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Built and Natural Environment Interactions, 13 - 14 February 2012, Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU.

25 March 2012: High resolution meteorological, radiation and CO2 concentration statistics for Dublin: 25 December 2010 (Poster presentation), The Irish Meteorological Society Conference: The Science of Weather Forecasting, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland.

26 May 2012: Urban eddy covariance flux measurements: Two locations in Dublin, Urban Climate Session. The Conference of Irish Geographers 2012, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

1 June 2012: Eddy covariance flux measurements: Linking atmospheric measurements to the urban surface of Dublin, Urban Climate Session. The Conference of European Geographers, EUROGEO 2012, St Patrick’s College, Dublin, Ireland.

6 August 2012: An inter-comparison of eddy covariance data processing software using Dublin as a reference site, 8th International Conference on Urban Climate, Dublin, August 6-10 2012, The Surface Energy Balance Session, University College Dublin, Ireland.

25 March 2012: High resolution meteorological, radiation and CO2 concentration statistics for Dublin: 25 December 2010 (Poster presentation), The Irish Meteorological Society Conference: The Science of Weather Forecasting, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland.

26 May 2012: Urban eddy covariance flux measurements: Two locations in Dublin, Urban Climate Session. The Conference of Irish Geographers 2012, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

1 June 2012: Eddy covariance flux measurements: Linking atmospheric measurements to the urban surface of Dublin, Urban Climate Session. The Conference of European Geographers, EUROGEO 2012, St Patrick’s College, Dublin, Ireland.

6 August 2012: An inter-comparison of eddy covariance data processing software using Dublin as a reference site, 8th International Conference on Urban Climate, Dublin, August 6-10 2012, The Surface Energy Balance Session, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Teaching experience

2011: Tutor to first year undergraduates in the Geography Department, NUIM.

2011:  Principal supervisor of the Geography Support Centre, Geography Department, NUIM.

2011-2012: Demonstrator to second year undergraduates in the Geography Department, NUIM.

2012-2013: Tutor to third year undergraduates in the Geography Department, NUIM.

Professional experience

2010-2011: Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, NUIM.

9-11 November 2011: Successfully completed an eddy covariance training delivered by LI-COR Biosciences, Department of Geography, University of Leicester, England.

14-18 November 2011: Visiting postgraduate researcher at the Environmental Monitoring and Modelling Group, Department of Geography, King's College London, England.

2011: Postgraduate representative in the Geography Department, NUIM.

2010: National University of Ireland, Maynooth, University College Dublin, Portland State University, Arizona State University, Weather Information Network Dublin (WIND). Participated in a campaign of intense climatic observations directed at the urban canopy layer in Dublin City investigating the spatial and temporal extent of Dublin's urban heat island at the local-scale. The research involved mobile temperature traverses across selected portions of the City over a one week period.

Publications

Keogh, S., Mills, G. and Fealy, R. (2012) The energy budget of the urban surface: two locations in Dublin, 45 (1): 1-23. DOI:10.1080/00750778.2012.689182

Keogh, S. (2011) Quantifying CO2 Fluxes for Dublin Irish Meteorological Society Newsletter, 2 (4): 42-43.

Memberships

The Irish Meteorological Society
The Geographical Society of Ireland
The International Association for Urban Climate
European Geosciences Union