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The Prendergast Challenge-based Multi-disciplinary Project Awards. These challenge-based awards were made possible through the generous philanthropic support of the Provost’s Council, a network of leading Trinity alumni and supporters who act as advisors to the College. Congratulations to the two winning teams of the Prendergast Challenge-based Awards

Resist-AMR Antimicrobial Resistance: Engineering Natural, One- Health, Systems Thinking Solutions to a Manmade Global Disaster

Abstract

Antimicrobials are critical resources for human, animal and plant health. With emergence of antimicrobial resistance and lack of new antimicrobials, we face an unprecedented global environmental, food security and human health threat. Applying a multidisciplinary approach, the team including 4 PhD projects and expertise from plant scientists, clinical and environmental microbiologists, geneticists, antimicrobial resistance specialists, computer scientists/statisticians, bioengineers and sociologists, will study environmental and human ‘resistomes’ from agricultural and clinical settings and analyse agricultural stakeholders’ practices and policies to identify institutional reform implications.

Life in the Currents

Abstract

"Life in the Currents" represents a novel investigation into the role of naturally driven variability in the historical and contemporary exploitation of marine life in the Northeast Atlantic. The project addresses the challenge of assessing the impacts of natural and anthropogenically driven climatic and oceanic variability on marine ecosystems, and the effects of these oceanic changes on terrestrial life and human societies. The outcome of the project is anticipated to resolve intriguing questions, such as how the ocean circulations have an impact on primary biological production and coastal geomorphologies; how does oceanic-riverine interaction affect marine ecosystems (e.g., river flooding as a control of terrestrial nutrient run-off into marine ecosystems); to what degree can variable ocean dynamics explain historical variability in fish catch documented for the past 500-hundred years and how unique are ocean circulation changes within the span of human habitation in Northeast Atlantic?

Herring train works, Bohuslän, 1794. A method for producing train oil from herring was discovered, c.1760, with c.500 oil factories soon established on the Bohuslän coast (Sahrhage & Lundbeck, 1992), exploiting the famous Bohuslän phenomenon in which super-abundant herring shoals appeared on a quasi-centennial timescale (Alheit & Hagen, 1996, 1997). Their sudden disappearance was economically devastating.

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