The Conversation article that @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social and I wrote about the PeatPic Project and the power of harnessing people, community science and the importance of research networks is now online too
theconversation.com/harnessing-t...
#Peatlands #PeatColour
14.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 28 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 2
🚨New Paper 🚨
The PeatPic Project: Predicting plot-scale green leaf #phenology across #peatlands
So happy to see this paper online — one of my favourite projects!
We explored how to capture how peatlands change colour using smartphones and community science!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
13.10.2025 12:29 — 👍 32 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 3
Does anyone have any good resources (or their own examples) for how to make a good scientific poster to share with students.
Please RT!
20.09.2025 17:38 — 👍 2 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Better Posters
A blog to improve poster presentations.
I have the Better Posters (betterposters.blogspot.com) book in my office if you want to have a look at it on Monday.
20.09.2025 18:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#ExcitingNews! Austria has designated Peatlands in Styrian Salzkammergut as its 25th #RamsarSite. The Styrian Salzkammergut is a region in the Alps, between the Totes Gebirge mountain range and the Styrian Dachstein plateau.
@bmimi.gv.at
www.ramsar.org/news/austria...
01.09.2025 07:48 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential of Temperate Fen Paludicultures
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11.08.2025 16:59 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
If you’re a ECR and are keen to be part of the peatlands and wetlands community in the UK (and beyond!) - please think about joining our committee and helping us grow!
We have momentum now but we need it to continue!
20.08.2025 12:48 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Of Microbes and Mires: What the Diet of Bacteria Has to Do With the Global Climate - ECH
Peatlands are powerful carbon sinks - if we let them stay intact. New research from ECH members shows how wetland farming - magic word: paludiculture - and microbial life can work together to reduce e...
What does the diet of bacteria have to do with the global climate? 💭🌍
Peatlands are powerful carbon sinks – if we let them stay intact. New research from ECH members shows how wetland farming – #paludiculture – and microbial life can work together to reduce #emissions without sacrificing land use. 🦠
01.08.2025 08:33 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Leeza Speranskaya is a Masters graduate from the University of Waikato, now working as an environmental scientist at a consultancy. She is a self-proclaimed data cruncher but enjoys the occasional bush-bash, both of which she got to experience during her Masters! Leeza’s Masters research focussed on Kopuatai bog, a unique peatland ecosystem located near Paeroa, New Zealand. Kopuatai is dominated by a plant called Empodisma robustum, a wire rush that has allowed this peatland to form due to its high water retention abilities. Specifically, this plant conserves water through restricted transpiration and its dense standing litter. Leeza’s research had two components - (a) analysing over 10 years of evaporation data (i.e., data crunching) which was diligently collected by her supervisor Dave Campbell via the eddy covariance method, and (b) measuring interception loss by collecting rainwater from under the dense E. robustum structure (i.e., bush-bashing). The 10-year evaporation dataset was compared to that of Mer Bleue, Canada, in collaboration with key researchers Peter Lafleur and Elyn Humphreys, to determine the impact of their differing vegetation types on evaporation. This research was able to confirm that E. robustum does in fact have higher water retention capabilities than the Sphagnum mosses found at Mer Bleue during dry canopy conditions, while wet canopy conditions allowed for higher evaporation due to interception loss. An analysis of evaporation patterns with increasing vapour pressure deficit (VPD) at Kopuatai and Mer Bleue indicated that E. robustum is able to restrict evaporation at high VPD, which may allow it to be more resistant to climatic warming and drying compared to ecosystems like Mer Bleue.
PeatECR Bio Series #1 - just in time to introduce our first featured bio in for July 2025 💚
Today we introduce Leeza Speranskaya, a recent MSc graduate, focusing on evaporation dynamics in restiad peat bogs. Connect with Leeza here:
www.linkedin.com/in/leeza-spe...
#PeatECRBioSeries
29.07.2025 23:37 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
PeatECR Bio Series - a monthly spotlight on one researcher/practitioner working in and around wetlands.
If you or someone you know would like to be featured, please email us at peatecr@gmail.com with attention to Rahel Bauerdick, our current coordinator of this series.
Please share far and wide to help us reach more early-career folk around the world!
New Series Alert!💚Welcome to the PeatECR bio series, a monthly spotlight on one early-career researcher/practitioner working in and around wetlands (no discrimination between peatlands and non-peatlands in this case). If you or someone you know would like to be featured, please get in touch with us!
29.07.2025 23:49 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Wetlands across Canada are indeed great treasures for Canadians and globally. But the push to fast-track 'projects of national interest', incl. critical minerals, puts these important ecosystems at significant risk. A reminder to governments that protecting wetlands is also of national interest.
23.07.2025 20:15 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations Pamela! That's fantastic news! You must be so excited 😊
04.07.2025 00:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Satellite data archives reveal positive effects of peatland restoration: albedo and temperature begin to resemble those of intact peatlands - IOPscience
Satellite data archives reveal positive effects of peatland restoration: albedo and temperature begin to resemble those of intact peatlands, Burdun, Iuliia, Myllymäki, Mari, Artz, Rebekka R.E., Guêné-Nanchen, Mélina, Jarašius, Leonas, Kull, Ain, Lilleskov, Erik A., McCullough, Kevin, Pakalne, Mara, Pu, Jiabin, Sendzikaite, Jurate, Strazdina, Liga, Rautiainen, Miina
New paper out! Using over 20 years of #satellite data, we show that restored #peatlands start to resemble intact peatlands. Their #albedo and land surface #temperature (LST) gradually align with those of natural peatlands.
👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
28.06.2025 11:43 — 👍 29 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 3
A headshot of Victor, wearing a navy winter coat with fur-lined hood and smiling at the camera. The sky is overcast. In the background there are orange-brown larches and evergreen trees.
The first recipient of our May #PeatNeeds is Victor Lecegui, who is studying the ecological drivers that affect microeukaryote communities in peatlands across the Iberian Peninsula. Victor will use the microgrant to buy a pair of waterproof boots and a hand lens for surveying vegetation plots.
20.05.2025 10:23 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Johannes is standing under a blue umbrella on a boardwalk in a peatland, wearing black-framed glasses, a white polo shirt, bright blue and yellow board shorts, and brown sandals. Johannes is looking at the camera and is holding the umbrella and a folding ruler. The boardwalk is surrounded by cottongrass and a few dipwells. In the background there are trees and blue sky with some clouds.
The next recipient of our May #PeatNeeds is Johannes Cunow (@jcunow.bsky.social). Johannes is investigating the influence of snowcover changes and reindeer grazing on when and where roots grow in northern ecosystems. 1/3
20.05.2025 11:06 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
I think you might be able to next month 😉
19.05.2025 12:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I would argue that the spectacular landscape helps with appreciating a foggy day 😅
19.05.2025 11:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Something special for #FieldworkFriday this week 🤩
My fantastic colleague Léonie has created a video about the two flux tower installations we did this spring (or maybe winter rather? 🥶) for the #CARBONIQUE project.
What a pleasure to be part of this great team! 💚
#PeatECR #PeatTwitter
16.05.2025 18:09 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Picture of a LinkedIn profile page of the Peatland ECR Action Team, featuring a panorama view of an open wetland with cotton grass and low sedge vegetation, as well as a boardwalk leading through. A mountain range is seen in the far background.
🔎 Find and follow us on LinkedIn too now and get updates on #PeatNeeds, #PeatCalendar, #PeatPublications and other #PeatECR resources and services.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/peat...
16.05.2025 05:52 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Laura, wearing a black ball cap, light blue long-sleeved top, black trousers, and hiking boots, is standing on a boardwalk in a peatland and smiling at the camera. There are trees in the background. Behind Laura is a pool, and to the left are a couple of floating chambers stacked up which are used to measure greenhouse gas fluxes from peatland waterbodies.
The second recipient for the April round of #PeatNeeds is Laura Baugh (laurabaugh94.bsky.social). Laura is interested in GHG fluxes from waterbodies in rewetted peatlands, with a specific focus on methane. 1/2
26.04.2025 10:30 — 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
PhD Walsh Scholar with Teagasc and Trinity College Dublin. DCU and Maynooth University graduate. Currently working on GHG dynamics in grasslands on organic soils in Ireland.
PhD researcher at University of Plymouth | researching carbon dynamics in wet woodlands | general lover of 🌱🍄 and soil | find me in the 🌊 on my days off
Associate Professor in Plant Biology at Saint Mary's University, Halifax 🇨🇦 | mother, botanist, ecologist, lover of peatlands and other wild things | elliemgoud.com
C'est sympa, ici.
Reporter Radio-Canada
Correspondant au CA
Journaliste à Radio-Canada | Environnement
Montréal 🖖
👀 linktr.ee/valerieboisclair
✍️ https://ici.radio-canada.ca/profil/24469/valerie-boisclair
Understanding Water and Carbon Cycling across the Pan-American Tropical Peatland Biome | #NSFFunded | #peatsky
PhD student in biogeochemistry working on the impacts of dust and trace elements on ecosystems
Limnology, Biogeochemistry, Hydrometeorology - Water Science and Watershed Management Branch, Government of Manitoba
Assistant Professor University of North Florida | Coastal Resilience, Plant Ecology, Blue Carbon, Climate Change | Views my own | he/him/his
We manufacture the instruments you need to answer questions about plants, the atmosphere, and the environment in general.
www.licor.com
Climate change, environmental monitoring tech, carbon sequestration, climate-smart agriculture, music, outdoor sporting, and cats.
@li-corenv.bsky.social
European research infrastructure providing open & standardised greenhouse gas data for climate action
In those boggy places we measure, define, and change, stop first, and listen💚| PhD candidate at The University of Waikato, Aotearoa - New Zealand | Peatland Restoration Trajectories through the Active-Passive Continuum | In Awe of Soil | She/They
PhD student at the University of Liverpool researching GHG emissions from peatland waterbodies
Official account of the Canadian Geophysical Union, dedicated to promoting and supporting the geosciences in Canada.
The Great Fen project is one of the most exciting habitat restoration projects ever undertaken in Britain. It will create a 3,700 hectare wetland. www.greatfen.org.uk
Lab manager at Geotop (UQAM)
Expert in peatland and wetland studies, carbon cycle and radiochronology
FR/EN
Journaliste spécialisé en environnement au Devoir. Collaborateur régulier à l'émission Moteur de recherche, sur Ici Première. Et parfois photographe amateur de nature et de faune.
