Mike Peacock

Lovely Friday news; our EPSRC Impact Accelerator Account proposal has been successfully funded.

Titled "Ditching Methane to Engineer Net Zero" (yes, it's about ditches), and with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social and @peatblogger.bsky.social also on board. Looking forward to more ditch GHG work in 2026.

Last 1st year @livunigeog.bsky.social labs of the semester. Our students are out valiantly measuring ecosystem CO2 fluxes in the torrential rain. @livunisoes.bsky.social

Excited to share the first publication from my PhD work on swamps!

We conducted a synoptic study of 12 swamps across southern Ontario looking at carbon pools and fluxes.

doi.org/10.19189/001...

Home lab set up for the day - time to get on with analysing a load of swamp CH4 samples.

The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! We encourage the #peatland community to give each of these wonderful papers a read.

The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper

An enjoyable few hours touring some Scottish beaver wetlands with @dralanlaw.bsky.social

Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...

In the lab today - three boxes of water samples (two from UK lowland peat ditches, one from South African lakes) to run for UV-vis today, to give data on dissolved organic matter.

Diffusive CH4 Emissions From Agricultural Ditches Overshadow CH4 Sinks by Upland Fields Ditches are potentially important sources of methane (CH4) in agricultural regions, but their CH4 emissions are largely unknown due to data scarcity. Here, we investigated CH4 concentrations and diff...

New ditch methane paper out, via my ongoing collaboration with Zhifeng Yan's group at Tianjin University. We show agricultural ditches can affect regional CH4 budgets. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

It's great! It's our teaching lab. Every thursday we have ~100 first year undergrads and lots of staff members in here, teaching various geography/environmental science techniques.

And today our MSc students took their bog samples into the lab - measuring N, P and DOM composition in water, and pH and EC in soil extracts.

Thanks for the advice - I guess I need to do some reading now and delve further.

Thanks - you're the second with that suggestion. Need to start doing some reading now.

Thanks. Mobile signal quite patchy for the intended site sadly.

Thanks! Sadly "techy" is not really where my expertise lies. Although we do have a good workshop with willing staff members here...

Thanks - you're the second advocate for the u20 so looks like a good one to consider.

Interesting choice of design...two votes for the u20 so far anyway, thanks!

Peatland and wetland folk - what loggers are you all using for water table these days? In the past I've used TruTracks (cheap but frequently break) and Troll 500s (great, but pricey). Any suggestions?

A really fun day at Risley Moss with our @livunigeog.bsky.social MSc students. Peat coring, pool biogeochemistry, and vegetation ID. Loads of enthusiasm from the students.

🌎 Funded PhD Opportunity | @acce-dla.bsky.social

**The carbon drain: quantifying carbon removal from peatlands and forests by rivers in the Peruvian Amazon**

🚨 Funded PhD 🚨 How does the reproduction of trees respond to drought? How does this shape forest resilience to drought? Join us in Liverpool & Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social
to answer this question!

Details & application info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Deadline: 7th January

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Interested in peatlands and biogeochemistry? Like fieldwork? Then come and do a PhD at @livunigeog.bsky.social
supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Really cool audio story on our recent ditch paper by @emfurd.bsky.social. Let's all pay more attention to our ditches...

Somehow managed to dodge the showers on Binsey in the northern Lake District today

A very pleasant few hours on Sale Fell in the Lake District today.

Our session on aquatic ecosystems and greenhouse gases will be running again at #EGU26. Why not get ahead of the post-Christmas last-minute rush and submit an abstract unfashionably early?

Greenhouse gas emissions from ditches in oil palm plantations on tropical peatlands in Malaysia - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Greenhouse gas emissions from ditches in oil palm plantations on tropical peatlands in Malaysia

New ditch GHG paper out, led by @etechlab.bsky.social. Was fun to be involved in something with a tropical focus for a change. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The role of ditches in the global carbon cycle: A critical & unrecognised player.

PhD on carbon and greenhouse gas fluxes in ditches. Supervised by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social at Uni Glasgow with @peatymike.bsky.social, Amy Pickard (@ukceh.bsky.social ) and me.
Get in touch if interested and circulate to potential candidates!
🧪 #GreenhouseGases

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We are looking for a postdoc to help us develop a novel #Peatland Triage Tool as part of the RESPECT project (gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...).
More details in the advert below.

Vacancy details | University of Stirling share.google/t3mKgh2EZAmr...

🧪 #PeatSky #Postdoc #AcedemicJobs

It's Thursday which can only mean one thing: lab day for our 1st year @livunigeog.bsky.social undergrads. My students are out on campus @liverpooluni.bsky.social enjoying the sunshine and measuring CO2 emissions from grasses and soils.