Coastal Environments in the West of Ireland

John B. Roney, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of History and Co-Director of Sacred Heart University Campus in Dingle, Ireland. His research focuses on French, Genevan, Belgian, Dutch, and Irish history, and the cultural heritage of coastal communities and artisan fishing. His publications include The Inside of History: Jean Henri Merle d’Aubigné and Romantic Historiography (1996), The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864 (1998), and Culture and Customs of the Netherlands (2009).Mark Beekey, PhD, is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor in the Department of Biology of Sacred Heart University, USA. His research looks at how to use living shorelines or other green infrastructure to stabilize coastal shorelines while increasing biodiversity and habitat complexity in a comparison of the Eastern United States and Ireland. He has a special interest in the population dynamics of horseshoe crabs in the Long Island Sound with respect to habitat requirements, reproductive behavior, population demographics, and dispersal. His publications include the articles “Conservation Status of the American Horseshoe Crab, (Limulus Polyphemus): A Regional Assessment” (2017) and “The Mismanagement of Limulus polyphemus in Long Island Sound, USA: What Are the Characteristics of a Population in Decline?” (2015).