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Patricia Oliveira Antunes

Research Officer – Water Quality and Agriculture

Research Interests

Patricia is a Research Officer supporting Teagasc’s Better Farming for Water campaign. Patricia is interested in:

  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Water pollution (nutrients, sediments and faecal organisms) resulting from agricultural activities
  • Mitigation measures to reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture, including nature-based solutions (NbS)
  • Freshwater Ecology
  • Ecosystem Services

Current Projects

Better Farming for Water campaign

Past projects

COSAINT – Cattle exclusion from watercourses: environmental and socio-economic implications

Education

  • 2021 – PhD in Aquatic Biogeochemistry (Dublin City University/Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland)
  • 2012 – MSc in Ecology (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
  • 2010 – BSc in Biology (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
  • O’Sullivan, M., Ó hUallacháin, D., Antunes, P.O., Jennings, E., Linnane, S., Wynne, C., Kelly‐Quinn, M., 2024. Mitigation of impacts of cattle access on stream ecosystems: Efficacy of fencing. River Res. Appl. 40(1), 77-91. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4218
  • Antunes, P., Ó hUallacháin, D., Dunne, N., Kelly-Quinn, M., O’Sullivan, M., Bragina, L., Jennings, E., 2023. Cattle access to small streams increases concentrations of Escherichia coli in bed sediments. Hydrobiologia 850(3), 3273–3291. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-022-05091-5
  • O’Neill, M., Briciu-Burghina, C., Jennings. E., Antunes, P., Ó hUallacháin, D., Kelly-Quinn, M., O’Sullivan, M., Regan, F., 2023. Influence of a cattle access point on temporal changes in stream turbidity. Irish Journal of Agriculture and Food Research 62(1), 7-17. https.//doi.org/10.15212/ijafr-2022-0109
  • Jennings, E., de Eyto, E., Dillane, M., Mellander, P-E., Regan, F., Wilkes, R., O’Neill, M., Briciu-Burghina, C., Antunes, P., Jordan, P., Arnscheidt, J., Linnane, S., McCarthy, V., McElarney, Y., Ó hUallacháin, D., Rolston, A. and Wynne, C., 2022. Using high frequency in-situ monitoring to gain new insights into Irish aquatic systems. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 122B(3), 201–221. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bae.2022.0014
  • Ó hUallacháin, D., Jennings, E., Antunes, P. ,Green, S., Kilgarriff, P., Linnane, S., O’Callaghan, P., O’Sullivan, M., Regan, F., Ryan, M., Kelly-Quinn, M., 2020. COSAINT: Cattle exclusion from watercourses: environmental and socio-economic implications.EPA Research Report No.330.
  • O’Sullivan, M., Ó hUallacháin, D., Antunes, P., Jennings, E., Kelly-Quinn, M., 2019. The impacts of cattle access to headwater streams on hyporheic zones. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 119B(1), 13 – 27. https://doi.org/10.3318/bioe.2019.02
  • O’Sullivan, M., Ó hUallacháin, D., Antunes, P., Jennings, E., Kelly-Quinn, M., 2019. The impacts of cattle access points on deposited sediment levels in headwater streams in Ireland. River Res. Appl. 35(2), 146-158. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3382
  • O’Callaghan, P., Kelly-Quinn, M., Jennings, E., Antunes, P., O’Sullivan, M., Fenton, O., and Ó hUallacháin, D., 2018. The environmental impact of cattle access to watercourses: a review. J. Environ. Qual. 48(2), 340 – 351. https://doi.org/110.2134/jeq2018.04.0167