The last few weeks have been a tour of southern Quebec’s beautiful boardwalks and wetlands

It’s great to have my PhD student @eduley.bsky.social visiting me from the UK this week! Even better is she gave an excellent talk on her projects this afternoon at our midi-aquatique seminar series @biologieuqam.bsky.social

2 more sites (bog and a fen) instrumented for our new project yesterday!

Very happy I got to present our project CARBONIQUE at #EGU26 today. #PeatSky #wetlands #fluxnet #Quebec 🇨🇦

We've written a piece for @uk.theconversation.com accompanying our #PeatQuest study identifying priority questions in #peatland science, explaining how the questions aren't just technical priorities, but encompass communities, livelihoods, power and fairness. theconversation.com/peatlands-ar...

Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Excellente journée sur le terrain à mettre en place un nouveau projet passionnant au Parc national de Frontenac. Excellent day in the field setting up an exciting new project at Parc national du Frontenac. What a beautiful peatland!

🚨 New paper with Percy Korsah and @wetland-ghg.bsky.social Increased methane emissions from boreal #peatlands following linear disturbances www.nature.com/articles/s43... Photo: peatland with seismic line running across it (+ impact of 2023 wildfire in the background. Photo credit: Melanie Bird)

On 8th May, our coffee morning is in collaboration with @bes-peatlandsgroup.bsky.social group! Get excited about learning how peatlands and wetlands are affected and how they can help fight climate change! When and where: 10-11 am GMT 8th May on Zoom Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Photos rolling in for #PeatColours 250+ submissions across all sites in 2026 — great to see! Explore the interactive map (updated regularly): peatcolours.github.io/tracking.html 📍 Kauhaneva-Pohjankangas 🇫🇮 📍 Forsinard Flows 📍 Cope Hut, Alpine NP 🇦🇺 📍 Torronsuo 🇫🇮 New project launching soon in 🇨🇦 👀

If you’re into the #occult or all things #witchcraft - please check out @jerrymoorecostume.bsky.social first exhibition in his digital Museum of Contemporary Ritual and Witchcraft called The Art Magical. mcrwmuseum.com/current-exhi...

Happy World Water Day 🌊 Covering 3% of land, peatland and wetlands rely on anaerobic conditions to sequester carbon. Drainage can severely damage these waterlogged conditions and continue to emit carbon. Maintaining the water table integrity is essential for their survival. #WorldWaterDay2026

Really nice poster from my masters student Frédérique Turmel on her project looking at carbon dynamics in a salt marsh in Gaspésie, QC at the Geotop student conference in Montréal!

The #PeatColours project continues to grow. We now have a new site in the Netherlands (Fochteloërveen) and will soon have a site in the southern hemisphere (Chile) The interactive map has had a make over to include #peatland type and you can see the photos here peatcolours.github.io/tracking.html

A new peat paper in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social enaccess.bsky.social Problem is, it's chock-full of AI generated references, including several papers with my name on that don't exist. How did the reviewers not spot this? www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/16...

The #PeatColours project continues to grow. We now have a new site in the Netherlands (Fochteloërveen) and will soon have a site in the southern hemisphere (Chile) The interactive map has had a make over to include #peatland type and you can see the photos here peatcolours.github.io/tracking.html

Very excited to be working in this beautiful marsh site this summer (photo from last year from @knowyouronion.bsky.social) with a new masters student joining my group!

New paper! We took our peatland moss expertise and methods and applied it to fill and spill water storage dynamics to examine the hydrological controls on rock barrens moss and lichen mat growth. Mat NPP increases with increasing bedrock depression storage. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨Funded #PhD opp🚨 in my lab, co supervised by Vincent Maire at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Linking above-and belowground plant #phenology to carbon cycling in #peatlands You can see full advert (in english/french) here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie... Please share!

Brief but fun swamp fieldwork this morning in the snow!

🚨 Our new peatlands paper "Pan‐Arctic Peatlands Have Expanded During Recent Warming" published today in Global Change Biology, led by Josie Handley. Open access and free to all: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨 Disturbance Impacts on swamp and forested peatlands in southern Québec This project will quantify how disturbances affect carbon cycling and hydrology in swamp and forested peatlands of southern Québec More info here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...

Very emo Sphagnum on site today. Must have heard the rumours of a new my chemical romance album this year and (as I’ve been considering) dyed its hair black like it’s 2008 again. Caused by deposition of organic C and humic acids when peaty water evaporates as far as I know #MireChemicalRomance

I love a good #wetland workshop

Planning the 2026 field season - lots of exciting #wetland fieldwork ahead!

It's World Wetlands Day! Soggy wishes to all who celebrate. Need some music for your wetland party? Enjoy some of the music videos our lab group has put together over the years www.youtube.com/@ghglab9201/...

On #WorldWetlandsDay, I’m celebrating the beautiful wetlands here in Québec. They cover~18 million ha of the landscape and encompass a wide variety of different types. #Wetlands everywhere are critical ecosystems - they store carbon, regulate water, and sustain biodiversity! We must protect them!

Are you under 30 years old? Remember to apply for the Allan Robertson grants for research students and young professionals until 31 January. More info: peatlands.org/about-us/hon... P.S. IPS' email server is down right now due to MS licencing, but we are working on it. #grants #peatlands #peat

Also co-convening a session looking at methane emissions and measurement techniques across Canada at CGU 2026 www.meet-here.ca/cgu-iah_2026...

📖Published📖 Authors review the current usage of uncrewed vehicles in ecological monitoring and highlight how these applications could be extended to further biodiversity research 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/qpnZubf

🚨Reminder: abstract deadline is 10 Jan 2026🚨 Heading to the Canadian Geophysical Union annual meeting 2026 in Halifax? We’re convening a session: From Data to Solutions on distributed data + network science for climate action in Canada www.meet-here.ca/cgu-iah_2026...

@bes-peatlandsgroup.bsky.social Anyone planning on participating in the Defra peatland evidence review? www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/get-involved...

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

Merry Christmoss! 🎄

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

If you are interested in studying participatory cryosphere science or permafrost science feel free to reach out about these opportunities. Will be recirculating in early January. Also for international scholars there's a new funding opportunity for postdocs where these projects could apply as well!

A home made #muppetschristmascarol wreath for Christmas 😍

New #peat paper by Caroline Daun et al. from @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social on the climate effects of removing agricultural topsoil for establishing Sphagnum in paludiculture or bog restoration: -Rewetting agricultural topsoil leads to substantial methane emissions likely above the natural reference /1

2 more sites added to the map - Boreal Wetland Centre in Alberta 🇨🇦 and Lochend on Shetland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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/... 1/3

….and my poster is up! Although you won’t get the pleasure of talking to me about it until 5pm tomorrow 🌱 #BES2025 #WetWoodlands #ForgottenForests #SwampScience #Peatlands

Big thanks to all our speakers in our thematic session at #BES2025 Past and future resilience of global #wetlands Reminder: you can meet the committee members at the Meet the SIG event later today + join them for the social event at 7:30pm at the Cold Town House! @britishecologicalsociety.org

Looking forward to lots of #peatland and #wetland chats at #BES2025 with our thematic session and social. Come and chat to us to find out more about the group and how to get involved!

3 of our PhD researchers presenting their posters @ #BES2025 Tues 16 Dec @dylanoliver58.bsky.social Wet woodlands as biodiversity assets @stephbatten.bsky.social CH4 fluxes in a temperate wet woodland Wed 17 Dec @eduley.bsky.social Carbon and ecosystem dynamics in peat-forming wet woodlands

Also, make sure you join us for a relaxed evening of pizza, drinks, and networking at coldtownhouse.co.uk, Edinburgh, from 7:30pm Tuesday 16th December. Meet us earlier at Meet the SIGs (6–7pm) to learn what we do and how to get involved.

We have our Thematic Session @britishecologicalsociety.org annual meeting this week on Tuesday 16th December Past and Future Resilience of Global Wetlands 10:30-12:30 in the Sidlaw Auditorium Conveners: @nickgirkin.bsky.social @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com @alicemmilner.bsky.social

Hello! I'll be presenting a poster at the #BES2025 conference this week! You can find me tomorrow, Tuesday 16th December, in Cromdale Hall from 6-7:30pm (the big green poster) Feel free to stop by and have a chat about #wetwoodlands, #biodiversity and #ecosystemservices

I'm presenting my results so far at British Ecological Society Annual Meeting this week. If you're there, come and find me on 17th December in Cromdale Hall, 17:00 - 18:30 🌳🍃 @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com @li-corenv.bsky.social #WetWoodlands #ForgottenForests #Peatlands #SwampScience

What is growing in wetlands? A lot of interesting plants! But which species? What about mosses? And can we predict species distributions? New #publication alert! 📕🧪 Developing and Validating Species Distribution Models for Wetland Plants Across Europe Find out there zenodo.org/records/1694...