Shane Regan

Dr Shane Regan is head of ecohydrology and climate change in the Scientific Advice and Research Directorate of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Hydrology in the School of Earth Sciences University College Dublin (UCD). His main research interests are in the fields of hydrology and biogeochemistry, and he is managing ecohydrological and greenhouse gas monitoring programmes related to the ecosystem management of European sites of interest. He represents NPWS as an expert advisor on numerous national and international committees related to climate change and biodiversity, and restoration and conservation projects.  He is also involved in a number of university research projects and co-supervising PhD projects related to fen and saltmarsh ecohydrology, flux tower carbon exchange, remote sensing of wetland environments and fluvial carbon export from degraded peatlands. He was awarded an Editor’s Choice Award (2019) by the American Geophysical Union for his research on groundwater drainage in peatland environments, and is a co-PI on the Research Ireland project, AI2Peat.