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Meg Schmidt ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ (they/them)

@smilingmegs.bsky.social

PhD candidate @GhgLab @GeogWaterloo studying #greenhousegases in #peatland #swamps. MSc in #peatlandrestoration. #fibro & #mentalhealth warrior. ๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ› & ๐Ÿชด mom Rewilding & native plant education and gardening ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ๐Ÿž๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿธ๐Ÿฆ‰๐Ÿฆโ€โฌ›

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So at noon we find out that the last six months was the joke, right?
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Right?!!

01.04.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Some beautiful winter fluxing in the swamps over the last few weeks

04.02.2025 02:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whether it's the bog, fen, swamp, or urban wetland, we love to get fluxy ๐Ÿ˜

04.02.2025 02:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Carbon Stocks and Fluxes From a Boreal Conifer Swamp: Filling a Knowledge Gap for Understanding the Boreal C Cycle <em>Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences</em> is an AGU journal publishing papers on the biogeosciences of the Earth system and the extension of this research to planetary studies.

New open-access #SwampScience

Carbon stocks and fluxes from a boreal conifer swamp: filling a knowledge gap for understanding the boreal C cycle

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

16.05.2024 09:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The swamps are coming alive again

17.05.2024 21:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy meow-loween from the peatland cats, Black Spruce and Larch!

01.11.2023 01:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Then ---> now
2017, 3rd yr undergrad, the summer that started it all w/ @kenzco4.bsky.social in AB & NWT.
2023, 3rd yr PhD, the swamp project that just keeps growing w/ @wetland-ghg.bsky.social in southern ON.
Thankful for these two amazing women for taking a chance and believing in me.

28.09.2023 22:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Taking a nervous system reset break with my wonderfully chaotic native gardens. Love this corner.

21.09.2023 14:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Check in on your queer friends and family today ๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

20.09.2023 13:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Super exciting Friday evening in the lab
#gradlife

25.08.2023 20:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Someone come work in the swamps with me and tell me about the hydrology!!
Wettest day yet after a big storm last night - 45 cm at the collar in the pool!

25.08.2023 20:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Bottom right is a swamp aster flower, purple with yellow center, in focus with a background of blurred pink Joe pye weed and white boneset flowers and lots of green leaves.

Bottom right is a swamp aster flower, purple with yellow center, in focus with a background of blurred pink Joe pye weed and white boneset flowers and lots of green leaves.

A monarch butterfly feeds from a white echinaccea flower with more flowers blurred on the foreground

A monarch butterfly feeds from a white echinaccea flower with more flowers blurred on the foreground

Enjoying the colours and visitors in my native gardens.

24.08.2023 23:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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