I come from a big ol' Irish family. My home is small village called Kilcar in rural Donegal, but I lived much of my early life on the sunny south coast of England.
As you can imagine, the sea is my happy place. When I'm not in the lab or in the field I am usually swimming. If you would like to read more about my aquatic adventures I have a rarely updated swimming blog. Alternatively you may find me at St. Mary's as, having had a season ticket from the age of 7, I for some reason remain a Southampton FC fan and I suspect it may be too late to change my allegiances.
My other interests include watching cricket, and listening to cricket, and badly playing cricket. During the COVID pandemic I got a shout out on TMS and it is still one of my favourite things to have ever happened.
Although I claim to only like sad indie music I'm actually fairly eclectic in my tastes - sometimes I even listen to happy indie music. You can get far too much information about my past, current and, eventually, future music taste by digging into my last.fm account.
As someone who studies climate change, it is impossible to be apolitical. My politics, however, are not exclusively environmental. First and foremost, I am a socialist, and believe the ongoing climate crisis is a product of our fundamentally flawed economic system which continuously places profit before people and planet. If you would like to argue with me you can find me on bluesky, or if you just want to shout into the void you can tell me off on the website formerly known as twitter.