Academic Papers
Duffy C*, Doedens C*, Moriarty R*, Daly H, Styles D & Meinshausen M 2025 National temperature neutrality, agricultural methane and climate policy: reinforcing inequality in the global food system. Environmental Research Letters 20 094019 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/adf12d *joint lead authors
Ciais P, …, Moriarty R et al. 2019 Five decades of northern land carbon uptake revealed by inter hemisphere CO2 gradient. Nature 568 221-225 doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1078-6
Loose B, Jenkins WJ, Moriarty R, …, et al. 2016 Estimating the recharge properties of the deep ocean using noble gasses and helium isotopes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 121 5959-5979, doi:10.1002/2016JC011809
Le Quéré C, Moriarty R et al. 2015 Global carbon budget 2015. Earth System Science Data 7 349-396 doi:10.5194/essd-7-349-2015
Le Quéré C, Buitenhuis ET, Moriarty R et al. 2015 Role of zooplankton dynamics for Southern Ocean biomass and global biogeochemical cycles. Biogeosciences 13 4111–4133 doi:10.5194/bg-13-4111-2016
Le Quéré C, Moriarty R et al. 2015 Global carbon budget 2014. Earth System Science Data 7 47-85 doi:10.5194/essd-7-47-2015
Le Quéré C, …, Moriarty R et al. 2014 Global carbon budget 2013. Earth System Science Data 6 235-263 doi:10.5194/essd-6-235-2014
Moriarty R, Buitenhuis ET, Le Quéré C & Gosselin M-P. 2013. Distribution of known macrozooplankton abundance and biomass in the global ocean. Earth System Science Data 5 241-257, doi:10.5194/essd-5-241-2013
Moriarty R & O’Brien, TD. 2013 Distribution of mesozooplankton biomass in the global ocean. Earth System Science Data 5 45-55 doi:10.5194/essd-5-45-2013
Buitenhuis ET, Vogt V, Moriarty R et al. 2013 MAREDAT: Towards a World Ocean Atlas of MARine Ecosystem DATa. Earth System Science Data 5 227-239 doi:10.5194/essd-5-227-2013
Working Papers
Molloy A, Jarmain C, Byrne KA, Daly H, Emmerson M, McKeon C, Moran J, Moriarty R, Styles D & Buckley, YM 2024. Assessment of biodiversity considerations in the carbon budget process, CCAC, Dublin, Ireland Working paper no 33
Peer Reviewed Reports
Moriarty R, O’Mahony T, Stefaniec A, Boucher JL, Caulfield B, Daly H, Torney D Canon S, Cronin N, Dunford B, Gallagher D, Heaphy L, Hughes I, Kitchin R, McGookin C, Moore-Cherry N, Murphy SP, Quinn T, Robbins D, Rohu J, Siedschlag I, Walsh L, Deane P, McClean D, McDonagh S, McElwain J, Menon A, Murphy C, Nolan P, Noone C, O’Brien E, Ó Gallachóir B & Thorne P 2023. Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment Volume 4: Realising the Benefits of Transition and Transformation, EPA, Dublin, Ireland
Summary for Policy Makers
Moriarty R, O’Mahony T, Stefaniec A, Boucher JL, Caulfield B, Daly H, Torney D 2023 Summary for Policymakers Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment Volume 4: Realising the Benefits of Transition and Transformation, EPA, Dublin, Ireland
Synthesis Report
Thorne P, …, Moriarty R et al. 2023 Synthesis Report Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment, EPA, Dublin, Ireland
Chapters within this report
Moriarty R, Stefaniec A, Daly H, Caulfield B, O’Mahony T, Torney D and Boucher JL 2023 Framing Transformative Change in Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment Volume 4: Realising the Benefits of Transition and Transformation, EPA, Dublin, Ireland
Moriarty R, Daly H, Quinn T, Dunford B, Rohu J, Stefaniec A, O’Mahony T, Torney D and Caulfield B 2023 Transforming landscapes in Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment Volume 4: Realising the Benefits of Transition and Transformation EPA, Dublin, Ireland
Moriarty R, Daly H, Torney D, Robbins D, McGookin C, Cronin N, Boucher JL, Stefaniec A, O’Mahony T and Caulfield B 2023 Transforming public participation and catalysing change in Ireland’s Climate Change Assessment Volume 4: Realising the Benefits of Transition and Transformation EPA, Dublin, Ireland
Published Reports
Climate Change Advisory Council 2018 Annual Review 2018 CCAC, Dublin, Ireland
Climate Change Advisory Council 2017 Annual Review 2017 CCAC, Dublin, Ireland
Climate Change Advisory Council 2017 Periodic Review Report 2017 CCAC, Dublin, Ireland
Climate Change Advisory Council 2016 First Report CCAC, Dublin, Ireland
Book Chapter
Moriarty R 2018 Carbon Budgets in Castree N, Hulme M & Proctor JD (eds) Companion to Environmental Studies ROUTLEDGE 495-501
Datasets
Duffy C, Doedens C, Moriarty R, Daly H, Styles D & Meinshausen M 2025 National temperature neutrality, agricultural methane and climate policy: reinforcing inequality in the global food system. zenodo doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15869668
Moriarty R 2012 Global distributions of epipelagic macrozooplankton abundance and biomass – Gridded data product (NetCDF) – Contribution to the MAREDAT World Ocean Atlas of Plankton Functional Types. PANGAEA, doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.777398
O’Brien T & Moriarty R 2012 Global distributions of mesozooplankton abundance and biomass – Gridded data product (NetCDF) – Contribution to the MAREDAT World Ocean Atlas of Plankton Functional Types. PANGAEA doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.785501
Moriarty R 2009 (unpublished) Compilation of respiration data in epipelagic macrozooplankton. PANGAEA doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.718139
Cruise Reports
RRS James Cook – Cruise JC068, 24 December 2011 to 27 January 2012. 40deg S (W) south Atlantic Ocean
RRS Discovery – Cruise D357, 18 October to 22 November 2010. 40deg S (E) south Atlantic Ocean
RRS James Clark Ross – Cruise JR235/236/239, 19 March to 24 April 2010. Antarctic Ocean
RRS James Cook – Cruise JC030, 26 December 2008 to 30 January 2009. Antarctic Ocean
Thesis
Moriarty R 2009 (unpublished) The Role of Macrozooplankton in the Global Carbon Cycle. University of East Anglia Norwich, UK
Dissertation
Moriarty R 2004 (unpublished) A re-characterisation of the marine macrobenthic infauna and associated sediments, Kinsale Harbour. National University of Ireland, Galway
Policy Briefs
Moriarty R & Daly H 2025 Basing Ireland’s carbon budgets on temperature neutrality would undermine obligations under the Paris Agreement. zenodo doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17120228
Moriarty R, Andrew RM, Peters GP & Le Quéré C 2014 Global Carbon Budget: Summary Global Carbon Project
Moriarty R, Bakker DCE, Andrew RM, Peters GP & Le Quéré C 2014 Global Carbon Budget: Ocean Carbon Sink. Global Carbon Project & SOCAT
Conferences Papers
Moriarty R, Jaggeshar D & Daly H 2025 Building a national integrated model to explore overshoot pathways. Poster presented at Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium 18th annual meeting 2025 Armação dos Búzios Brazil
Moriarty R & Daly H 2025 Missed opportunities & backsliding—agricultural methane, ‘no additional warming’ & global food system inequality. Paper presented at Overshoot Conference 2025 IIASA Laxembourg Austria
Daly H & Moriarty R 2025 Towards a framework for aligning national mitigation scenarios with 1.5°C in an era of overshoot. Paper presented at Overshoot Conference 2025 IIASA Laxembourg Austria
Jaggeshar D, Moriarty R & Daly H 2025 Towards a national integrated energy, land and food system model for long term carbon removal. Paper presented at International Energy Agency-Energy Technology Systems Analysis Program Workshop 2025 Nara Japan
Moriarty R 2025 Temperature overshoot: from global to country-level implications. Paper presented at 13th MaREI Climate & Energy Research Seminar at the ESRI 2025 Dublin Ireland
Jaggeshar D, Moriarty R & Daly H 2024 Integrating energy-land-food systems to explore national pathways for long-term carbon drawdown. Poster presented at Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium 17th annual meeting 2024 Seoul South Korea
Jaggeshar D, Moriarty R & Daly H 2024 The land squeeze: a review of how Integrated Assessment Models capture dynamics between energy, food and land systems. Paper presented at International Energy Workshop 2024 Bonn Germany
Moriarty R, Buitenhuis ET & Le Quéré C 2014 Temperature dependence of carbon-specific vital rates among zooplankton. Paper presented at Advances in Marine Ecosystem Modelling Research, Plymouth, UK
Vogt M, Brun P, Payne MR, O’Brien CJ, Bednaršek N, Buitenhuis ET, Doney SC, Leblanc K, Le Quéré C, Luo Y, Moriarty R, O’Brien TD, Schiebel R & Swan C 2013 Habitat suitability and ecological niches of different plankton functional types in the global ocean. Paper presented at EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
Moriarty R, Zhou Z & Ballentine C 2011 Dispersal of tritium and 3He along the outer rim of the Weddell gyre. Paper presented at Goldschmidt, Prague, Czech Republic
Moriarty R, Buitenhuis ET & Le Quéré C 2008 Macro-zooplankton in the global biogeochemical model PlankTOM10. Paper presented at Marie Curie Monitoring Mission, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
Moriarty R, Buitenhuis ET & Le Quéré C 2008 Heterotrophic plankton in a warming world. Paper presented at Green Ocean Workshop, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Moriarty R, Buitenhuis ET, Le Quéré C 2008 Macro-zooplankton in the global biogeochemical model PlankTOM10. Paper presented at Advances in Marine Ecosystem Modelling Research Symposium, Plymouth, UK
Moriarty R, Buitenhuis ET & Le Quéré C 2008 Macrozooplankton in the global biogeochemical model PlankTOM10. Paper presented at Effects of Climate Change on the Oceans, Gijon, Spain
Moriarty R, Buitenhuis ET & Le Quéré C 2007 Fluxes through the Zooplankton. Paper presented at Green Ocean Workshop, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Moriarty R, Buitenhuis ET, Le Quéré C 2007 Macrozooplankton Respiration: Critically Re-evaluating the Role of Temperature and Mass. Paper presented at International Symposium on Parameterisation of Trophic Interactions in Ecosystem Modelling, Cadiz, Spain
Moriarty R, Buitenhuis ET, Le Quéré C 2006 Macrozooplankton: Common Function and Inherent Diversity. Paper presented at Green Ocean Workshop, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Conference Presentations & Workshops
Organiser and facilitator, Volume 4 Realising the benefits of transition and transformation, EPA Stakeholder workshop, Dublin, Ireland, April 2023
Invited speaker, Ireland’s 5 Year Climate Assessment Report, SEAI National Energy Research and Policy Conference 2022: Societal Transformation, Dublin, Ireland, September 2022
Oral presentation on carbon budgets, as a representative the Climate Change Advisory Council, 27th European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils Network Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2019
Represented the Climate Change Advisory Council supporting the Chair, Climate Council Workshop, the UK Foreign Office, London, UK, February 2018
Chair, Negative emissions and translating Paris into national and subnational carbon budgets, UNFCCC COP23, Bonn, Germany, November 2017
Represented the Climate Change Advisory Council, 10th International Carbon Dioxide Conference, Interlaken, Switzerland, August 2017
Represented the Climate Change Advisory Council, UNFCCC COP22, Marrakech, Morocco, November 2016
Represented the Climate Change Advisory Council, Decarbonisation and Resource Efficiency – 100% Renewable Energy and more, Berlin Germany, November 2016
Keynote speaker, The Secretariat to the Climate Change Advisory Council: an introduction, Agency Day, Environmental Protection Agency, Wexford, Ireland, May 2016
Coordinator, Global Carbon Budget launch and GCP, Tyndall, CICERO side-event, UNFCCC COP21, Paris, France, November 2015
Chair, Recent trends in carbon emissions and sharing a quota of cumulative emissions, UNFCCC COP20, Lima, Peru, December, 2014
Represented the Global Carbon Project, Radical Emission Reduction Conference, Royal Society, London, UK, December 2013
Panel speaker, Global Carbon Budget 2013—Rising emissions and a radical plan for 2 degrees, side-event, UNFCCC COP19, Warsaw, November 2013
Coordinated, high-level workshop on ‘Limits to growing CO2 emissions in China’, 9th International Carbon Dioxide Conference, Beijing, China, June 2013
Invited expert, UNFCCC ADP Workshop on Opportunities for Mitigation and Adaptation – Land Use, UNFCCC, Bonn, Germany, February 2013
Invited speaker, Macro-zooplankton and PlankTOM10, Geochemistry Group, The University of Manchester, Manchester UK, May 2009
Participated, Atlantic Meridional Transect meeting, Royal Society, London, July 2006
Invited speaker, Rates and Results—modelling macrozooplankton and the global carbon cycle, Special meeting of the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology, the Directorate of the British Antarctic Survey and Vice Chancellor of UEA, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK, November 2005
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