MARTIN MCGARRIGLE
Updated 15 days ago
Ballynew Castlebar Co. Mayo Ireland
I am an environmental scientist with wide-ranging experience especially in the area of aquatic ecology. I been involved with biological monitoring of rivers for over 30 years, in the west of Ireland in particular, and I have clocked up over 10,000 individual assessments based on Q-Values for macroinvertebrates...
I was actively involved in the establishment of national standards for nutrients in rivers - heading up the research that underpins the Phosphorus Regulations of 1998; also SI 272 of 2009 that sets the standards for the Water Framework Directive in Ireland. The nutrient standards are underpinned by empirical statistical analyses of biology v chemistry interactions and extensive mathematical modelling of the impact of eutrophication on rivers undertaken in the 1980s...
Environmental consultancy specialising in freshwater ecology - biological monitoring and training plus data analytics for large-scale environmental datasets.