Dr. Nick Mccarthy

Biography

Dr. Mc Carthy has worked in Teaching and Research for the last 20 years firstly with Dr. Conor O Reilly of UCD on Plant and Tree Quality where he also completed a PhD on Herbicides and their effect on seedling quality in the nursery. He then took up a permanent lecturing post on the BSc in Forestry Course at Waterford Institute of Technology, where he continued his research looking at reducing and/or alternatives to herbicides together with investigating the problems of invasive species in Irish forests. With the help of COFORD he set up The Forest Vegetation – Alternative Management Systems research group (FORVAMS) in WIT which investigated using mulches as an alternative to herbicides on afforestation and reforestation sites. He also instigated the setting up of COST Action E47 (2005-2009) entitled ‘European Network for Forest Vegetation Management: Towards environmental sustainability’ of which he was the chairperson. He recently presented keynote papers on Forest vegetation management in Europe into the 21st century at a IUFRO Biosecurity conference in New Zealand (2009) and at IUFRO Forest Vegetation Management Conference in Chile (2012).

Research Interest

Ecosystem