Please join the Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative for an in-person seminar presented by Susan Hegarty, Associate Professor of History and Geography, Dublin City University.

The title of her talk is "Engaging communities to monitor water quality in Ireland - citizen science for attaining SDG Indicator 6.3.2."

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Susan will be available after her seminar to meet and talk with attendees. 

Susan Hegarty is a geographer and Associate Professor in the DCU School of History and Geography, where she is currently Head of School. Her research focuses on citizen science for monitoring water quality, and on the evolution of the Irish landscape. She has researched the role of the Quaternary ice-sheets on this landscape and the role Quaternary sediments play in the vulnerability of groundwater to pollutants.

She is involved in a number of citizen science projects looking at water quality in Ireland. She also sees fieldwork as an integral part of the training of geography students, and promotes field studies within undergraduate geography. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.