Her career as an environmental campaigner has been shaped by her specialist knowledge. Dubsky is probably better known in Europe than she is here. In 1988 she ran a Coastwatch Europe survey on a trial basis in test areas in five European countries. Later that same year she was a co-founder of the Irish Clean Air Group and produced a strategy for improving Dublin air quality. Access to information is central to her approach to environmental issues and Dubsky has always maintained that only by getting people involved in surveys and other schemes, will they develop an interest in such issues.
Public information is so important.
Having run the Blue Flag award scheme between 1987 and 1993, she stresses the need for a balance between encouraging people to visit areas with the need to protect such habitats. In 1991 she ran Ireland's first international conference on waste management. During her five-year stay in the Czech Republic she was active in opening the East European office for Coastwatch Europe. Throughout that time she travelled between the Coastwatch head office in Trinity College and Prague. Her mother still lives on the family farm.