The Transit Gateway seminars

By | April 24th, 2017|ADCO News, Education & Research|

As part of “Port Perspectives”, Transit Gateway is a project that documents the transitional changes of the shape of Dublin Port from its medieval shoreline to its current infrastructure. This seminar was the first in a series of nine, which will be held over the next nine months. A Deep Mapping of Dublin Port by [...]

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500 Years of Ocean Change

By | April 23rd, 2017|ADCO News, Education & Research|

This visual, based on scientific data, shows how the ocean has evolved in terms of temperature, acidity, sea-level, ice-cover, plastic pollution, shipping, stocks of larger animals, etc. in the past 500 years. It also displays some of the efforts made with regard to ocean observation. This graphic is produced by artist Glynn [...]

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ADCO provide specialist personnel for the Aran Islands Subsea Cable Repair project, 2016

By | December 13th, 2016|ADCO News, Engineering, Sub-sea Cable Repair|

Rex Bangerter and Feargal Morrissey are specialist divers in the application of new technology developed by a team within ESB International for the repair underwater of subsea electricity cables. Both divers were involved in the world’s first underwater repair of a subsea electric cable (250kV D/C IRC cable) on the Moyle Interconnector Project in 2014, [...]

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Foothill College’s Ireland Program Summer 2017

By | November 14th, 2016|ADCO News, Education & Research|

Join us in medieval Ireland and the kingdom of Connacht where the last high kings defended their country against invading English nobles. Experience an amazing archaeology and cultural program with anthropological field work, course work, group trips, service learning projects, and a living history experience. Discover with us the beauty of Ireland as we begin [...]

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Oceans Past Platform Conference

By | May 11th, 2016|ADCO News, Conference|

Programme Oceans Past Platform Conference May 23-24, Trinity College Dublin Bayscapes: Shaping the Coastal Interface through Time The European Oceans Past Platform is dedicated to marine environmental history and the study of ocean and coastal management through time. The conference is held in collaboration with the Centre for Environmental Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, and [...]

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Alexandra Basin Redevelopment project 2016-23.

By | October 11th, 2015|ADCO News, Archaeology, Engineering|

ADCO is appointed by Dublin Port Company as their project archaeologist for the Alexandra Basin Redevelopment project 2016-23. ADCO was part of the RPS-led team for the project EIS, which achieved planning consent in 2015. The ABR is one of Ireland’s largest infrastructural projects of the present moment, and will see the redevelopment of its Deepwater Basin to [...]

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ADCO in an advisory capacity

By | September 9th, 2015|ADCO News, Archaeology, Education & Research|

ADCO has an advisory role in the University of Vienna’s research initiative into the prehistory of the Upper Austrian lakes. The Institute for Archaeological Science at the University of Vienna, in partnership with the Ludwig Bolzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology, and the County of Lower Austria, Department of Culture as part of the UNESCO- World Heritage [...]

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