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DrColman Gallagher

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

School of Geography

Orcid identifier0000-0002-6039-2726 (opens in a new tab)⁠
  • Lecturer/Assistant Professor
    School of Geography
  • 01 716 8383
  • University College Dublin, School of Geography, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    20th INQUA Congress 25th to 31st July 2019 (opens in a new tab)⁠
    25 Jul 2019
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    UCD School of Geography Teaching and Learning
    1 Aug 2018
    Director
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    RTE Radio One Lunchtime News
    1 Oct 2015
    Liquid water flowed beneath glaciers on Mars - study https://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0930/731580-irish-scientists-mars/
  • OFFICE HELD
    UCD School of Geography Director of Teaching and Learning
    1 Aug 2015
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    UCD School of Geography Plagiarism Committee
    1 Sep 2011
    Chair
  • EMPLOYEE SUPERVISION
    Employed on the Boyne River Valley Project as post-doctoral researcher
    4 May 2009 - 4 Dec 2009
    Temporary
  • EMPLOYEE SUPERVISION
    Employed on the Boyne River Valley Project as Post-doc researcher
    5 May 2008 - 5 Dec 2008
    Temporary
  • EMPLOYEE SUPERVISION
    Employed on the Boyne River Valley research project (H Lewis PI)
    5 May 2008 - 5 Dec 2008
    Temporary
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2008 - 1 Jan 2016
    Anonymous peer review
  • PROFESSIONAL IMPACT
    Evidence of liquid water on the surface of Mars (opens in a new tab)⁠
    Dr Colman Gallagher, UCD School of Geography, and Open University planetary science researcher Dr Matthew Balme have identified eskers emerging from a degraded glacier in the Phlegra Montes region of Mars. Eskers, originally an Irish word meaning ridge or elevation, are ridges of sediment similar to a dried-out river bed, which form only by sustained flows of liquid water underneath a glacier. Eskers on Mars are important, as they indicate the melting of glacial ice. Finding another type of environment where liquid water can occur is important in the whole ‘life on Mars’ question, as it provi