Imelda Casey
Lecturer
Science
Waterford Institute of Technology
Ireland
Biography
Dr Imelda Casey is a University College Cork graduate with a BSc. In Applied Ecology and a PhD in grassland agronomy from Queens University in 2000. The PhD grassland agrowas a Walsh Fellowship funded by Teagasc. She has over 15 years’ experience of research and lecturing in agriculture and the environment including research experience in grassland agronmony, plant, animal ecology and behaviour, nitrate leaching and carbon emmisions from grassland, sward morphology, agricultural botany and plant physiology, She has been employed as a lecturer with the Department of Chemical and Life Sciences, WIT since 2007. Prior to this she spent 8 years as a contract researcher (research officer) in the Department of Dairy Husbandry, Teagasc, Moorepark where she was project leader on several grassland projects. This involved managing staff and substantial grassland projects and obtaining Teagasc internal funding with a large annual budget.
Research Interest
Fertilizer N and white clover management in grassland and environmental impact, Plant-animal interactions in grazed swards,mid-season sward quality, Sward physiology and tillering dynamics
