Dr Gerard McCarthy, Department of Geography and ICARUS Climate Research Centre

Dr Gerard McCarthy, Department of Geography, and Professor Philip Nolan, President of Maynooth University

Dr Gerard McCarthy of the ICARUS Climate Research Centre and Department of Geography was awarded the prestigious Early Career Scientist medal by the International Association for the Physical Science of the Oceans. The IAPSO Early Career Scientist Medal honours Early Career Scientists for their outstanding research in the physical or chemical sciences of the oceans, and for their cooperation in international research.

In December 2018, funding of €2 million for a major project led by Dr McCarthy on Atlantic climate change was announced by the Marine Institute and the European Regional Development Fund. The Atlantic climate change project funded by the Marine Institute and the European Regional Development Fund will bring the field of ‘decadal climate prediction’ to Ireland. This emerging field will lead to improved estimates of the future climate over the period of a decade by using the predictability of the ocean.

The International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO) is one of eight associations of the International Association of Geodysey and Geophysics, which is part of the International Council for Science.