Gerard McCarthy
@germac.bsky.social
Irish Oceanographer working on Atlantic Overturning & Irish sea level. Husband & Dad. He/him
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🌊📊 Developing reliable #ocean #indicators is essential to guide global action and protect the ocean's future.
🤝 A new study lays the groundwork for a global framework of ocean indicators, connecting #science to #policy and action. Open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🤝 A new study lays the groundwork for a global framework of ocean indicators, connecting #science to #policy and action. Open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🌊📊 Developing reliable #ocean #indicators is essential to guide global action and protect the ocean's future.
🤝 A new study lays the groundwork for a global framework of ocean indicators, connecting #science to #policy and action. Open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🤝 A new study lays the groundwork for a global framework of ocean indicators, connecting #science to #policy and action. Open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Today is 2025-12-14, the sun sets at 16:05:45 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 02 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Today is 2025-12-14, the sun sets at 16:05:45 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 02 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
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Today is 2025-12-12, the sun sets at 16:05:44 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 1 sec. #GrandStretch #GrandDrawingIn
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Today is 2025-12-12, the sun sets at 16:05:44 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 00 mins and 1 sec. #GrandStretch #GrandDrawingIn
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First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Interesting piece from @thinkorswim.bsky.social on AMOC collapse and its potential implications for Ireland. Not sure about the headline but big AMOC change would certainly be transformative for Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: A big freeze could turn the Irish into climate refugees
We should reflect on 'get-tough' proposals on immigration: If the Amoc currents that moderate Ireland’s climate fail, temperatures will plunge, making grass-based agriculture impossible
www.irishexaminer.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Interesting piece from @thinkorswim.bsky.social on AMOC collapse and its potential implications for Ireland. Not sure about the headline but big AMOC change would certainly be transformative for Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Meet the Co-Chairs Leading AMOC in Focus
Introducing Hans Pörtner and Gerard McCarthy as the Co-Chairs of the newly launched Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Report—AMOC in Focus, a joint assessment by JPI Climate and JPI Oceans.
www.linkedin.com/posts/jpi-oc...
Introducing Hans Pörtner and Gerard McCarthy as the Co-Chairs of the newly launched Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Report—AMOC in Focus, a joint assessment by JPI Climate and JPI Oceans.
www.linkedin.com/posts/jpi-oc...
#cop30 #amoc #climatescience #oceancirculation #jpioceans #jpiclimate | JPI Oceans
Meet the Co-Chairs Leading AMOC in Focus
Introducting Hans Pörtner and Gerard McCarthy as the Co-Chairs of the newly launched Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Knowledge Report ini...
www.linkedin.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Meet the Co-Chairs Leading AMOC in Focus
Introducing Hans Pörtner and Gerard McCarthy as the Co-Chairs of the newly launched Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Report—AMOC in Focus, a joint assessment by JPI Climate and JPI Oceans.
www.linkedin.com/posts/jpi-oc...
Introducing Hans Pörtner and Gerard McCarthy as the Co-Chairs of the newly launched Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Report—AMOC in Focus, a joint assessment by JPI Climate and JPI Oceans.
www.linkedin.com/posts/jpi-oc...
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
November 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
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🇮🇪 - St Munna's Church, L1618, County Westmeath, Ireland
#Ireland
#StepByStep 👣
#PlacesOfWorship
Want to visit? 🔁
1/6
#Ireland
#StepByStep 👣
#PlacesOfWorship
Want to visit? 🔁
1/6
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🇮🇪 - St Munna's Church, L1618, County Westmeath, Ireland
#Ireland
#StepByStep 👣
#PlacesOfWorship
Want to visit? 🔁
1/6
#Ireland
#StepByStep 👣
#PlacesOfWorship
Want to visit? 🔁
1/6
Delira do Becky Ní Éallaithe as ucht Steip 2025 a bhuachaint. About time!
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Delira do Becky Ní Éallaithe as ucht Steip 2025 a bhuachaint. About time!
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I'm reading the Parable of the Talents at the moment and having lots of 'did I read that in the book or in the news?' moments.
October 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I'm reading the Parable of the Talents at the moment and having lots of 'did I read that in the book or in the news?' moments.
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What is going on with the AMOC - the system of ocean currents that gives Ireland its mild and wet climate? With a number of iCRAG colleagues we wrote a short piece for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social ➡️
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Is the Atlantic ocean's "wobble" a warning for Ireland?
The Atlantic between Ireland and Canada, which gives us our mild climate, is behaving strangely and is the only location on the earth's surface that has cooled
www.rte.ie
September 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
What is going on with the AMOC - the system of ocean currents that gives Ireland its mild and wet climate? With a number of iCRAG colleagues we wrote a short piece for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social ➡️
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Up on RTÉ Brainstorm now, together with colleagues Audrey Morley, @tomasbuitendijk.bsky.social, Chris Bean, an article we wrote on the AMOC (gulfstreamsystem, as Joyce would have said) that spans social science, current and past climates and emerging observing: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Is the Atlantic ocean's "wobble" a warning for Ireland?
The Atlantic between Ireland and Canada, which gives us our mild climate, is behaving strangely and is the only location on the earth's surface that has cooled
www.rte.ie
September 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Up on RTÉ Brainstorm now, together with colleagues Audrey Morley, @tomasbuitendijk.bsky.social, Chris Bean, an article we wrote on the AMOC (gulfstreamsystem, as Joyce would have said) that spans social science, current and past climates and emerging observing: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
I often come back to the Atlantic being warmer than the Pacific at depth. At shallower depths, it seems obvious that the warm water is coming from the Med. But also the vertical heat transport due to overturning processes needs to be remembered. Anyone know of study partitioning those two processes?
August 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I often come back to the Atlantic being warmer than the Pacific at depth. At shallower depths, it seems obvious that the warm water is coming from the Med. But also the vertical heat transport due to overturning processes needs to be remembered. Anyone know of study partitioning those two processes?
The butterflies are flying it at the moment. clockwise from top (afaik at least!): red admiral, dragonfly, small tortoiseshell, holly blue (back of wings), grasshopper. From a blackberry picking session on the Old Rail Trail on Saturday.
August 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The butterflies are flying it at the moment. clockwise from top (afaik at least!): red admiral, dragonfly, small tortoiseshell, holly blue (back of wings), grasshopper. From a blackberry picking session on the Old Rail Trail on Saturday.
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Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬⚒️ #histsci
After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing
After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing
July 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬⚒️ #histsci
After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing
After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing
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Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland? Analysis of the geographical spread of Gaelic games by
@germac.bsky.social Amelia Carroll & Hannah Shen @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #AllIrelandHurlingFinal #AllIrelandFinal
@germac.bsky.social Amelia Carroll & Hannah Shen @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #AllIrelandHurlingFinal #AllIrelandFinal
Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland?
GAA clubs are found in every corner of Ireland, but you'll find surprising pockets of football clubs in so-called hurling counties and vice-versa
www.rte.ie
July 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland? Analysis of the geographical spread of Gaelic games by
@germac.bsky.social Amelia Carroll & Hannah Shen @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #AllIrelandHurlingFinal #AllIrelandFinal
@germac.bsky.social Amelia Carroll & Hannah Shen @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #AllIrelandHurlingFinal #AllIrelandFinal
We've a great line up of MOC talks for this year's IAPSO-IAMAS-IACS conference in Busan, South Korea. I look forward to meeting colleagues and catching up.
July 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
We've a great line up of MOC talks for this year's IAPSO-IAMAS-IACS conference in Busan, South Korea. I look forward to meeting colleagues and catching up.
This is an update to the work Hannah and Amelia did last summer. We used the winning senior clubs to determine the hurling areas in Munster (circled by blue below). This year we checked that against the clubs of the squads for the final (black dots) and they matched well.
July 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is an update to the work Hannah and Amelia did last summer. We used the winning senior clubs to determine the hurling areas in Munster (circled by blue below). This year we checked that against the clubs of the squads for the final (black dots) and they matched well.
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Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland? Analysis of the geographical spread of Gaelic games by @germac.bsky.social Amelia Carroll & Hannah Shen @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland?
GAA clubs are found in every corner of Ireland, but you'll find surprising pockets of football clubs in so-called hurling counties and vice-versa
www.rte.ie
July 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Where are the hurling and football strongholds in Ireland? Analysis of the geographical spread of Gaelic games by @germac.bsky.social Amelia Carroll & Hannah Shen @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Lovely summer walks up from the train to the office in Maynooth.
July 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Lovely summer walks up from the train to the office in Maynooth.
Loadsa news up on our webpage. Particular welcome to Emma and Hannah who are with us for the summer and Jittrarast, Lionel, and JP who are doing the MSc projects in the group: icarusoceans.maynoothuniversity.ie?page_id=525
July 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Loadsa news up on our webpage. Particular welcome to Emma and Hannah who are with us for the summer and Jittrarast, Lionel, and JP who are doing the MSc projects in the group: icarusoceans.maynoothuniversity.ie?page_id=525
In a busy day for AMOC news, I'm excited to take on the co-chair of the new JPI Climate and JPI Oceans expert-driven assessment of the latest science on the AMOC:
www.jpi-oceans.eu/en/shedding-...
www.jpi-oceans.eu/en/shedding-...
Shedding light on AMOC: JPI Climate and JPI Oceans launch Assessment Initiative
www.jpi-oceans.eu
June 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
In a busy day for AMOC news, I'm excited to take on the co-chair of the new JPI Climate and JPI Oceans expert-driven assessment of the latest science on the AMOC:
www.jpi-oceans.eu/en/shedding-...
www.jpi-oceans.eu/en/shedding-...
Really striking new study from van Westen and Baatsen and a class visualisation tool to go with it. This study looks at a future where the AMOC has collapsed. Temperatures hitting -22ºC in Dublin in the winter is pretty stark. Hearing these numbers can be shocking and worrying.
amocscenarios.org
amocscenarios.org
AMOC Collapse Visualisation Map
The interactive map that shows you the effects worldwide of climate change scenarios and the AMOC current collapsing
amocscenarios.org
June 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Really striking new study from van Westen and Baatsen and a class visualisation tool to go with it. This study looks at a future where the AMOC has collapsed. Temperatures hitting -22ºC in Dublin in the winter is pretty stark. Hearing these numbers can be shocking and worrying.
amocscenarios.org
amocscenarios.org