Katy Ross

Two test samples of fibreboard as part of an exhibition at the Wellcome collection

Katy standing by a lectern presenting her findings at the Geomicrobiology society meeting, on the slide behind is a graphic of carbon cycling in wetlands

A photo of the best talk award given to Katy's talk

It was lovely to summarize my PhD at the Geomicrobiology Society's Research in Progress meeting and to be honoured with the best talk award!

Visiting the Wellcome Trust's Zelfo wetland crop fiberboards was also a must on the way home

#Paludiculture #Peatlandsmatter #Geomicrobiology

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Land Use Consultation - Defra - Citizen Space This site contains consultations that are run by Defra.

What do we want England to look like?

Less than a month to respond to DEFRAs land-use consultation: consult.defra.gov.uk/land-use-fra...

Let's make it more peaty, better for nature, accessible, adaptable and supported in a just way for those working on the land

#peatlandsmatter #forpeatssake

27.03.2025 09:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

With thanks to With thanks to all contributors including
Mike Longden, Bedamoss, Broads National Park, Natural England, Simon Ward, Georgemma Hunt, Hannah Millet, Stephen Letch, Maria Oliver, Richard Starling, Lucy Mitchell, Katherine Wright, Will Barnard, Jack Clough and Andrew Raffle

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An drawn picture of a Typha plant and a common reed plant. In a circle around these plants are the potential end uses for each of these plants. For Typha this includes bioenergy, starch, bioplastics, restoration, bioremediation, construction, agricultural conditioner, fodder, oil, food and fibres. For common reed this is furnishings, construction, paper, bioplastics, agricultural conditioners, restoration and bioremediation, growing media, bioenergy, fodder, food and starch

What is the market for paludiculture crops? 🌱

As part of my Defra Soils Fellowship I've been looking into the status, size and potential for paludiculture markets in England.

Check out the full report:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#Peatlandsmatter #forpeatssake #paludiculture

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Sharing all the incredible innovations from the UK's peaty community at the civil service environment network #pioneeringgreeninnivation featuring some of my paludiculture favourites
#peatlandsmatter
#forpeatssake

18.03.2025 09:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Science on science on science in the #FalklandIslands

I've loved being part of the knowledge development across Weddell Island, learning how the #peat functions, the links with hydrology and what invertebrates are up to.

#peatlandsmatter
#forpeatssake

10.03.2025 11:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A photograph of a peatland landscape with mossy rushes in the foreground. A ditch, now infilled with sphagnum moss takes you further back in the picture towards a tree line in the distance. It is a beautiful blue sky day.

Last week I visited the Winmarleigh #carbonfarm. It was beautiful to be immersed in #sphagnum but it was also great to see how peaty grassland can be converted back to bog.

The trip brought together scientists, farmers, environmentalists and policy makers with fruitful conversations.
#Forpeatssake

03.03.2025 14:06 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@saerifi.bsky.social @falklandislands.bsky.social

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Katy standing at the front of a room delivering a talk on the greenhouse gas emissions from peat in the Falkland Islands. The display screen shows images of fields that are grazed differently and the audience all sat in red chairs are watching the screen.

The main reason for visiting the Falkland Islands was to help the #LandRecovery Workshop. Here, the Land Recovery Programme Consultation was launched revealing it would cost just £3.6mil to set aside 30% of the islands for nature whilst still generating profit for farmers #30by30 #peatlandsmatter

19.02.2025 12:05 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Super cool to hear from all those cultivating a sustainable #paludiculture future at Fibrebroads by @norfolkbroads.bsky.social and seeing how architecture students at Norwich University of the Arts have been developing #Typha based materials. 🌱

#peatlandsmatter
#forpeatssake

18.02.2025 11:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There were many opportunities for outreach over the past two weeks in the #Falklandislands, a favourite is always visiting the school to talk about why peat is just the coolest

Here is our attempt to core through the classroom floor after the field trip was cancelled
#peatlandsmatter #forpeatssake

17.02.2025 18:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Celebrating #WomeninScience day by visiting one of the field sites I set up in the #FalklandIslands for chamber GHG measurements back in 2022. Now with a #fluxtower measuring the emissions. Still as windy as ever 💨

11.02.2025 20:53 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Despite seeing more rain in the past two weeks than in the year I was living in the Falkland Isalnds, it seems most water is pouring straight out between the clay and peat layers with surrounding peat still dusty dry

11.02.2025 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@peatymike.bsky.social @artzrebekka.bsky.social Mike Longden, Jenny Rhymes, Stephanie Evers, Chris Field, David Smedley, Roisin O'Riordan and Maria Nolan

#Peatlandsmatter #Paludiculture #GHG #Peat

27.01.2025 13:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What are the greenhouse gas emissions savings associated with paludiculture? Paludiculture is a potential solution to minimising the 1.5% of total UK emissions from lowland peat.

What are the greenhouse gas emissions savings associated with paludiculture?

As part of a DEFRA fellowship I had a go at trying to answer this question and create an emission factor for Paludiculture in the England!

Thanks to all who contributed👇

www.paludiculture.org.uk/post/what-ar...

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