Rhonda McGovern

Visiting Research Fellow

Rhonda is a visiting research fellow at the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities (TCEH). She joined the centre in March 2019 to conduct doctoral research on the Climates of Conflict in Ancient Babylonia (CLICAB) project. She completed this in March 2024 with “Cuneiform to Computer: Data from Ancient Babylon”.

She is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher with Met Éireann, Ireland’s National Meteorological Service working on a citizen science data rescue project.

Rhonda completed a BA in Geography from Maynooth University followed by MSc in Climate Change through Irish Climate and Research Units (ICARUS) in Maynooth University.

Research Interests: Environmental history, data rescue, citizen science.

mcgoverh@tcd.ie

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-3931-1944

Publications

Travis, C., Holm, P., Ludlow, F., Kostick, C., McGovern, R. and Nicholl, J. (2022) Cowboys, Cod, Climate and Conflict in: Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities. DOI: 10.4324/9781003082798-3

McGovern, R. (2021). Ancient Knowledge Networks: A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia by Eleanor Robson. DOI: 10.17863/CAM.71840

McGovern, R., & Thorne, P. (2020) Citizens assemble: a study on the impact of climate reporting in the Irish media ‘before’, ‘during’ and ‘after’ the Citizens’ Assembly on ‘how the state can make Ireland a leader in tackling climate change’, Irish Political Studies, DOI: 10.1080/07907184.2020.1811970

Ryan, C., Murphy, C., McGovern, R., Curley, M. & Walsh, S. (2020) Ireland's pre-1940 daily rainfall records. Geoscience Data Journal, pp.1-13. DOI: 10.1002/gdj3.103

Ludlow, F. & McGovern, R. (2020) Five centuries of human observation reveal Europe's flood history. Nature, 583, pp. 522-524. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-020-02138-2

Noone, S., Brody, A., Brown, S., Cantwell, N., Coleman, M., Sarsfield Collins, L., Darcy, C., Dee, D., Donegan, S., Fealy, R., Flattery, P., McGovern, R., Menkman, C., Murphy, M., Phillips, C., Roche, M., and Thorne, P.: Geo-locate project: a novel approach to resolving meteorological station location issues with the assistance of undergraduate students, Geosci. Commun., 2, 157–171, https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-2-157-2019, 2019.