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Robert Devoy
Robert John Nettleton Devoy is an Irish geographer. He is an Emeritus Professor of Geography at University College Cork and was formerly a Lead Member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Education Devoy studied at Durham University. His doctoral work, an analysis of sea-level changes and land subsidence on the Thames Estuary, was completed at Cambridge University, Cambridge in 1977. His research interests lie primarily in coastal geography, coastal science, including contemporary coastal processes and coastal management. Career and Research Devoy moved to Cork to continue his research after graduating from Cambridge. In 1984 he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Delaware and subsequently served as a Visiting Research Fellow in Geomorphology at the Australian National University in 1987, and as a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney in 1990 and again from 1992-1993. From 1992 he was the founding director of the Coastal and Marine Research Centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University College Cork
University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork. The university was founded in 1845 as one of three Queen's Colleges located in Belfast, Cork, and Galway. It became University College, Cork, under the Irish Universities Act of 1908. The Universities Act 1997 renamed the university as National University of Ireland, Cork, and a Ministerial Order of 1998 renamed the university as University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork, though it continues to be almost universally known as University College Cork. Amongst other rankings and awards, the university was named Irish University of the Year by ''The Sunday Times'' on five occasions; most recently in 2017. In 2015, UCC was also named as top performing university by the European Commission funded U-Multirank system, based on obtaining the highest number of "A" sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
