Mike Waddington 🇨🇦

New paper led by Rachel Fallas & Chantel Markle with
6 winters of @nobel-water.bsky.social data

Micrometeorological variability and climate change affect snake overwintering habitat resilience

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Rattlesnakes overwinter in east Georgian Bay #peatland hummocks

Agreed! Axe Lake fen?

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay!

Photo: “After the Squalls”
(Peatland 234 at the NOBEL Water and Carbon Observatory @nobel-water.bsky.social)

www.worldwetlandsday.org

In 2010 the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab started research in Nobel @nobel-water.bsky.social and every year since have awarded the #NobelPeatPrize for the top #peatland paper of the year. *

* While “unpresidented”, in case he tries, the #NobelPeatPrize rules are clear. The award is non transferable.

Fun day at the annual McMaster Ecohydrology Lab "Peat Retreat" at @nobel-water.bsky.social

#peatlands #ecohydrology

A member of the public took a photo of the #peatland at Castell Nos in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 every Sunday this year and even sent me this video he made!

I really love how people have embraced #PeatColours across the world

Annual Christmas GPS map art with Emma!

Santa Gnome / Tomtenisse

Feel free to reach out to me or my colleagues with any questions if you want to join SEES.

#AcademicJobs #ClimateResilience #AI #EnvironmentalScience #ArcticResearch

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The School of Earth, Environment and Society (SEES) at McMaster is particularly interested in applications from experts in Al, environmental science, climate resilience, and/or Arctic studies. If this aligns with your expertise, we would love to hear from you!

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These chairs offer $1 million per year for full professors or $500,000 per year for associate professors, over eight years.

McMaster is seeking many scholars with ambitious research programs that tackle emerging global and national challenges in many disciplines.

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Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Nominees - Research & Innovation [...]Read More...

McMaster University is inviting top-tier researchers currently working abroad to join one of the world's leading research institutions through the prestigious Canada Impact+Research Chairs program.

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Graph showing the top 20 countries with the most journal articles published on the topic of climate change and landscape fire.

New paper out in Science Advances today on A guide to assessing the impacts of climate change on landscape fire. There are thousands of papers on fire and climate change, and this paper discusses how fire, its drivers, and its impacts are modeled.
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

I'm very excited to share the latest paper from the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab. A whole lab effort where we expand our discussion on Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands to discuss how peat depth influences the strength of key feedbacks and peatland resilience. Check it out in Ecohydrology!

Excited to announce that our latest #SurvivalOfTheDeepest paper was just published! Read more about it here ⬇️

We discuss how the vulnerability of shallow peatlands arises from the interactions between regulatory (negative) and destabilizing (positive) ecohydrological feedbacks.

#SurvivalofTheDeepest #Peatlands #PeatPaper
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@sciencewithkyra.bsky.social @gregverkaik.bsky.social @peatbloke.bsky.social

We show that differences in peat properties and vegetation cover between shallow and deep peatlands influence the strength of fast hydrological feedbacks while the slow feedbacks related to vegetation community change and peat decomposition directly impact peatland physical characteristics

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A decade ago, we published our highly cited "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands" paper in Ecohydrology.

Today the sequel just dropped!

"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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On behalf of the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab I'm happy to announce the winner of the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize for top Intl #PeatPaper

Congrats to: Nijp et al.

"Ecohydrological feedbacks increase water storage, streamflow, and resilience of natural peatlands"

Journal of Hydrology
#Peatlands

Boreal forest stream running through the forest. Temperature logger, leaf litter collection basket, and pitfall trap in the foreground.

I'm recruiting a #PhDstudent ! Deadline Feb 10th!

Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

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Excited to share that our research group's latest "Survival of the Deepest" paper has been accepted! We outline how strengths of several ecohydrological feedbacks are likely different between #peatlands of different depths, leading to increased vulnerability of shallow systems.

Co-authors on BlueSky. Give them a follow.

@rosiebroyd.bsky.social @sciencewithkyra.bsky.social @gregverkaik.bsky.social @alexclark11.bsky.social @peatbloke.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social

Winner of the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize for top McMaster peat paper is Furukawa et al. accepted earlier today in Ecohydrology!

Almost four years to put this together. A complete lab group effort! Abstract attached.

#SurvivalOfTheDeepest

The #NobelPeatPrize (International) will be announced Dec. 11th

I enjoy the peat colours pics you post. You have created a great network and the #PeatPic science is also up for our #NobelPeatPrize for top paper of 2025. In an era of fancy (and expensive) lab and field equipment it is wonderful to see how a smart phone can advance peat science. Congrats Scott.

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.

Just spent a wonderful few days with #peatland researchers at the University of Waikato visiting pristine, drained, and burned NZ peatlands and discussing all things peat, fire, LOTR, water use efficiency, and optimality. Learned lots. Will be there and back again.

Here Be Sphagnums!

Sphagnum moss is generally resistant to burning 🔥 Even in a recent wildfire at the base of the Mt. Doom 🌋 💍

Sphagnum >> Sauron

#NZPeatTour

Hydrology Paper of the Day @peatofmind.bsky.social on why carbon cycles are linked to Sphagnum mosses: the process of fire and the primary importance of peat depth in peatlands; modelling of moisture stress by the HYDRUS-1D model; and characterizing processes in the NOBEL water observatory, Ontario