Personnel

The BioChange project which began in January 2006 is funded by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency with a total budget in excess of €1.6 million for a major integrated project on Irish biodiversity titled Biodiversity and environmental change: an integrated study encompassing a range of scales, taxa and habitats.  This project, which will run for 42 months, will involve multi-disciplinary research across nine Irish research institutions working in close collaboration. The partners in the project are: BEC Consultants Ltd, Central Fisheries Board, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin, National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University College Cork (UCC), University College Dublin (UCD), University of Limerick (UL).  The overall project co-ordinator is Dr Steve Waldren (TCD), The project is administered by Dr. Louise Scally, BEC Consultants Ltd.