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Environmental Sciences
Ireland
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
61
Citations
13023
World Ranking
2783
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2013 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Gerard Kiely is affiliated with University College Cork in Ireland and has conducted research primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work has a strong focus on the subfields of Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Frailty in Older Adults

Gerard Kiely has co-authored multiple papers with several frequent collaborators, including Manuel Helbig, Tatjana Živković, Pavel Alekseychik, Mika Aurela, and Tarek S. El-Madany. These partnerships show a concentrated collaborative effort in their research areas.

Recent publications by Gerard Kiely include:

  • "Warming response of peatland CO2 sink is sensitive to seasonality in warming trends," 2022, published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Estimation of Latent Heat Flux Using a Non-Parametric Method," 2022, published in Water
  • "Warming response of peatland CO2 sink is sensitive to seasonality in warming trends," 2022, published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "Warming response of peatland CO2 sink is sensitive to seasonality in warming trends," 2022, also published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "SIOG2024-4-OA-051 The development of the senior adult oncology programme at the Royal Marsden NHS foundation trust," 2024, published in Journal of Geriatric Oncology

The main publication venues for Gerard Kiely's work include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Water
  • Journal of Geriatric Oncology

In recognition of contributions to their field, Gerard Kiely was awarded membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Item Clusters and Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Case for Testlets

    Howard Wainer;Gerard L. Kiely

  • Ingeniería ambiental: fundamentos, entornos, tecnologías y sistemas de gestión

    Gerard Kiely;José Miguel Veza

  • Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites with regression algorithms

    Gianluca Tramontana;Martin Jung;Christopher R. Schwalm;Kazuhito Ichii

  • A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape-scale heterogeneity

    Paul C. Stoy;Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Barbara Marcolla

  • Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology

    Jianyang Xia;Shuli Niu;Philippe Ciais;Ivan A Janssens

  • Global comparison of light use efficiency models for simulating terrestrial vegetation gross primary production based on the LaThuile database

    Wenping Yuan;Wenwen Cai;Jiangzhou Xia;Jiquan Chen

  • Technical/economic/environmental analysis of biogas utilisation

    J.D Murphy;E McKeogh;G Kiely

  • Patterns and controls of the variability of radiation use efficiency and primary productivity across terrestrial ecosystems

    Martín F. Garbulsky;Martín F. Garbulsky;Josep Peñuelas;Dario Papale;Jonas Ardö

  • Climate change in Ireland from precipitation and streamflow observations

    G. Kiely

  • Effect of thermal, chemical and thermo-chemical pre-treatments to enhance methane production.

    Rashad Rafique;Tjalfe Gorm Poulsen;Abdul-Sattar Nizami;Zaki-ul-Zaman Asam

  • Impacts of droughts and extreme-temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones

    Jannis von Buttlar;Jannis von Buttlar;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Anja Rammig;Sebastian Sippel

  • How can we improve biomethane production per unit of feedstock in biogas plants

    Zaki-ul-Zaman Asam;Tjalfe Gorm Poulsen;Abdul-Sattar Nizami;Rashad Rafique

  • The uncertain climate footprint of wetlands under human pressure

    Ana Maria Roxana Petrescu;Annalea Lohila;Juha-Pekka Tuovinen;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Chuixiang Yi;Daniel Ricciuto;Runze Li;John Wolbeck

  • How strong is the current carbon sequestration of an Atlantic blanket bog

    Ann-Kristin Koehler;Matteo Sottocornola;Gerard Kiely

  • Productivity, Respiration, and Light-Response Parameters of World Grassland and Agroecosystems Derived From Flux-Tower Measurements

    Tagir G Gilmanov;L Aires;Z Barcza;V S Baron

  • Physical and mathematical modelling of anaerobic digestion of organic wastes

    G. Kiely;G. Tayfur;C. Dolan;K. Tanji

  • Land cover change and soil organic carbon stocks in the Republic of Ireland 1851–2000

    James M. Eaton;Nicola M. McGoff;Kenneth A. Byrne;Paul Leahy

  • Rainfall interception and the coupled surface water and energy balance

    Albert I.J.M. van Dijk;John H. Gash;Eva van Gorsel;Peter D. Blanken

  • Towards spatial geochemical modelling: Use of geographically weighted regression for mapping soil organic carbon contents in Ireland

    Chaosheng Zhang;Ya Tang;Xianli Xu;Ger Kiely

  • Patterns and processes of phosphorus transfer from Irish grassland soils to rivers—integration of laboratory and catchment studies

    Philip Jordan;Wayne Menary;Karen Daly;Gerard Kiely

  • Net ecosystem exchange of grassland in contrasting wet and dry years

    Vesna Jaksic;Gerard Kiely;John Albertson;Ram Oren

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg Wohlfahrt
Georg Wohlfahrt University of Innsbruck
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Alessandro Cescatti
Alessandro Cescatti European Union
Lutz Merbold
Lutz Merbold Agroscope
Damiano Gianelle
Damiano Gianelle Fondazione Edmund Mach
Matthias Peichl
Matthias Peichl Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Andrej Varlagin
Andrej Varlagin Russian Academy of Sciences
John D. Albertson
John D. Albertson Cornell University
Eddy Moors
Eddy Moors Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University

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