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• Peat+GHG • chambers+eddy covariance • @cpaleolab.bsky.social | @uqam.ca | @peatlandecr.bsky.social • current project: https://carbonique.ca • she/her We should swim in a fountain.
Google suggests the Congo is the world's largest #peatland. This is wrong!
For details of the world’s largest peatland complexes, & as a ref for anyone wanting to avoid error-ridden AI search tools, I have manually searched the available literature. See Peatpedia for the results: lnkd.in/gTi32rGX
New in AGU Advances: a community vision for a sustained, actionable greenhouse gas observing system. We highlight how tighter integration of top-down and bottom-up approaches can sharpen attribution and bring carbon information closer to management scales.
doi.org/10.1029/2025...
#GHG #Carbon
We are indeed!!!
11.12.2025 22:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our whole @carbonique.bsky.social project team got spoilt by Santa this year 😅
11.12.2025 22:40 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Christmas came early - a shiny new toy!
@li-corenv.bsky.social
2025 #NobelPeatPrize (Outreach)
Peat Colours!
The “Tracking the Colours of Peatlands” outreach and citizen science initiative explores and communicates peatland science through peat pics.
Congrats @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
The #NobelPeatPrize (McMaster) will be announced Dec 10th.
This is another flux tower we installed this spring/summer for the @carbonique.bsky.social project. This time the tower was installed on a floating platform in a restored marsh near Baie-du-Febvre.
Thank you to my colleague Léonie @cpaleolab.bsky.social for putting together this video 💚
L'année 2025 a permis le déploiement du réseau de tours micrométéorologiques du programme de recherche Carbonique.
- Marais transformé en champ agricole (2024)
- Tourbière ouverte et tourbière boisée, Lac-à-La-Tortue
- Marais aménagé et marais littoral naturel, rive sud du Lac Saint-Pierre
⚡❄️ 🌧️☀️
What a fun day in the field scouting a new site for our research project 💚
02.12.2025 18:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So excited #PEATcalendar is back for 2026! 🎉
Look at all the animals and critters you can find in a peatland 🐻🐍🦆🦡🕸️
The sea urchin might be a bit surprising? Get a calendar to learn how it ended up in a peatland.
Thanks to everyone who contributed photos for the calendar! #PeatECR #PeatSky
Depuis 2024, l'équipe du C-Paleo lab, en collaboration avec Parcs Canada, a réalisé 727 stations d'inventaire sur le terrain pour documenter les stocks de carbone dans les tourbières de 13 Parcs Canada.🍁
99 carottes de tourbe d'une longueur cumulée de 120 m ont été prélevées et sont analysées !
Woo! #PeatPics got nominated for the Nobel Peat Prize!
27.11.2025 20:52 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Félicitation à Michelle Garneau, lauréate du prix Acfas Michel-Jurdant 2025 !
Son expertise des tourbières sur leur rôle essentiel dans la séquestration du carbone contribue à la mise en valeur de leur importance dans la lutte contre les changements climatiques.
www.acfas.ca/prix-concour...
Durant les étés 2024 et 2025, l'étudiante à la maîtrise Joanie Boulard a échantillonné des monolithes de tourbe et des carottes d'arbres dans 5 tourbières situées dans les Basses-terres du Saint-Laurent afin d'évaluer l'impact du boisement récent sur la fonction d'accumulation du carbone.🌲
14.11.2025 19:31 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The 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
Après une saison de feu intense, l'équipe C-Paleo s'est enfin rendu dans le parc national de Riding Mountain, au Manitoba.
Un 12e parc dans le projet d'inventaire des stocks de carbone des tourbières de Parcs Canada !!!
🍂🏞️🍂
@geotopqc.bsky.social @sciences.uqam.ca
🚨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...
Does anyone have any good resources (or their own examples) for how to make a good scientific poster to share with students.
Please RT!
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
#ClimateWeekNYC is coming up! Then #COP30. We will hear more about the need for low-carbon technologies to reduce emissions and reach net-zero. But these technologies cannot come at the expense of carbon-rich #peatlands. I explain why in my new blog- Peatpedia!
open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...
#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...
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential of Temperate Fen Paludicultures
📄 buff.ly/APdzmb9
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!
La suite du projet sur les stocks de carbone des tourbières de Parc Canada : campagne de terrain à Wood Buffalo. Beaucoup de bisons et de forêts brulées. 🦬
Une tourbière pergélisolée a été découverte et a été carotté !!!
📌Parc national de Wood Buffalo, Territoires du Nord-Ouest et Alberta
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. 🦠
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
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 📌 0Wetlands 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
Really nice article focused on the importance of Quebec #peatlands and the Carbonique project
(And a mini shout out of the #PeatColours project)
ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numeri...
