Eve Daly

I am a Geophysicist and a lecturer in Earth and Ocean Sciences within the school of Natural Sciences. My primary degree was in Physics and I later pursued a PhD in Geophysics. I was director of the Undergraduate degree programme in Earth and Ocean Sciences untill 2025 . My research area broadly focuses on imaging the Critical Zone - simply defined as the region where rock meets life: the permeable layer from the tops of trees to the bottom of the groundwater zone with applications for water resources and agricultural management. I am member of Royal Irish Academys Geoscience committee and member of the joint working group between Met Eireann and Teagasc on Agricultural Meteorology. I was awarded a Presidents award for Research Excellence (Research Supervision) in 2024

I work in the Critical Zone - simply defined as the region where rock meets life: the permeable layer from the tops of trees to the bottom of the groundwater zone. This is the region within the subsurface where Hydrogeophysics meets Agrogeophysics increasingly via machine learning. I established the HYdrogeophysics and REmote Sensing research group (HY-RES) in 2019 with primary focus on understanding and developing multiscale tools for monitoring Soil Moisture, a key climate variable. Recent projects include using geophysical data to identify peat soils - even under grass or forest cover using the Geological Survey Irelands airbornea Tellus survey, specifically the Radiometric dataset. This information is vital for the estimation of appropriate carbon emission factors from Irish soils and the management of climate emission targets. Other projects use field-based geophysical methods for monitoring soil compaction due to cattle grazing patterns, and generating high resolution soil moisture maps from satellite based systems. This work will have impact in improving farm drainage maps with subsequent influence on grazing and crop management practices. Ongoing projects include two DAFM funded projects REWET and D-Tect with Teagasc, TCD, and MTU on developing new tools to aid reporting to the National Inventory Report (NIR) of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, and implied emission factors.A recently funded EPA project (GRaDE) will be updating Irelands outdoor gamma radiation dose rate map. HY-RES group members will work with other researchers from Galway, SETU and UCD to combine the Tellus Radiometric data with in-situ and drone-based measurements. The project outputs will provide baseline information to inform the National Emergency Plan for Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Exposures. Soil Moisture is a theme that runs through all these projects.

Geophysics, GIS and Earth Observation and Remote Sensing