Stephen Mccarron
Lecturer
Geography
National University of Maynooth
Ireland
Biography
Dr Stephen McCarron has been an active member of the national and international Quaternary geoscience research community since 1994. He currently teaches Physical Geography at Maynooth University Department of Geography, and conducts research in onshore and offshore glacial sediments. In 2009 he established and currently manages the Irish Sediment Core Research Facility (ISCORF) within the ICARUS climate change research cluster. Before that he was involved in research projects at the University of Ulster and the Minerals Section, Geological Survey of Ireland; in the Junior Mining Sector, Ireland and has also taught GIS in Trinity College Dublin.
Research Interest
Geological evidence of former ice sheet extents and dynamics on the island of Ireland and on its continental shelf.
Publications
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2009 'Cosmogenic Be-10 chronology of the last deglaciation of western Ireland, and implications for sensitivity of the Irish Ice Sheet to climate change' Clark, J;McCabe, AM;Schnabel, C;Clark, PU;McCarron, S;Freeman, SPHT;Maden, C;Xu, S (2009) 'Cosmogenic Be-10 chronology of the last deglaciation of western Ireland, and implications for sensitivity of the Irish Ice Sheet to climate change'. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 121 :3-16
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2014 'Deglaciation of the Dungiven basin, north-west Ireland' McCarron S. (2014) 'Deglaciation of the Dungiven basin, north-west Ireland'. IRISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, 31 :43-71
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2015 'Ice sheet extension to the Celtic Sea shelf edge at the Last Glacial Maximum' Praeg, D;McCarron, S;Dove, D;O Cofaigh, C;Scott, G;Monteys, X;Facchin, L;Romeo, R;Coxon, P (2015) 'Ice sheet extension to the Celtic Sea shelf edge at the Last Glacial Maximum'. QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, 111 :107-112
