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!

2025 has been a busy year for my #peatland photo projects. I’ve built a website to track #PeatColours + The PeatPic Project - including a new interactive map where you can explore photos contributed by the public 🔗 peatcolours.github.io/tracking.html #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #Peatlands

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

2025 has been a busy year for my #peatland photo projects. I’ve built a website to track #PeatColours + The PeatPic Project - including a new interactive map where you can explore photos contributed by the public 🔗 peatcolours.github.io/tracking.html #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #Peatlands

….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...

If you’re interested in (tropical) wetlands and N2O dynamics, you might enjoy our new review paper: Plant controls over tropical wetland nitrous oxide dynamics: a review link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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

Christmas came early - a shiny new toy! @li-corenv.bsky.social

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 💚

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.

I’m so honoured to win a #NobelPeatPrize for Outreach for this project. Thank you to @peatofmind.bsky.social and your group!

Question for the worldwide peat feed - are people aware of studies for Caesium 137 contamination for your work patch and is that something that anyone feels they need to consider for restoration works? Either as a driver for management or a constraint for what you could do? Thanks!

Time for a #PeatColours wrap-up! Since 2023: 2100+ photos 📍3 new sites (Clough Moor, Cors Fochno, Killarney) 🐶 14 bog dogs 🤳 30+ selfies. Thanks to everyone sending in pics - the peatlands, as always, looked amazing. More #PeatColours coming in 2026! Inc. an exciting new Québec-based project

Want to publish in @britishecologicalsociety.org journals but worried about the cost? First check your options and don't be afraid to ask for a waiver if you need one.

Time for a #PeatColours wrap-up! Since 2023: 2100+ photos 📍3 new sites (Clough Moor, Cors Fochno, Killarney) 🐶 14 bog dogs 🤳 30+ selfies. Thanks to everyone sending in pics - the peatlands, as always, looked amazing. More #PeatColours coming in 2026! Inc. an exciting new Québec-based project

Get your abstracts ready for the CGU/IAH-CNC Meeting May 24-27 in Halifax, NS. Deadline is January 10th! If you study streams, wetlands, forests, land-air fluxes, GHGs, carbon, soils, pollution, or nature-based climate solutions submit to exciting Biogeosciences sessions: tinyurl.com/CGUBGS2026

Wildfire causes accelerated permafrost thaw in northern peatlands due to summer-time processes (reduced shading and soil heating) not due to winter-time processes (snow dynamics). Patience pays off - I helped instrument the site in 2014, and now completed by Stephanie Wright! doi.org/10.1002/ppp....

A winter wonderland today! Some fieldwork in the snow is always fun! @carbonique.bsky.social @knowyouronion.bsky.social @cpaleolab.bsky.social

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

Congratulations Meg! Excited to read this.

Excited to share the first publication from my PhD work on swamps! We conducted a synoptic study of 12 swamps across southern Ontario looking at carbon pools and fluxes. doi.org/10.19189/001...

📢 Coming to you all a bit later than anticipated - its been a whirlwind of a week! Muskeg and Mines Part 2, focusing on this often asked question: Are there any policies that protect peatlands or at least minimise the impact of these developments on peatlands? open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...

Voilá! 🎉 #PeatECR (peatecr.com) is excited to announce that the #2026PeatECRCalendar is officially ready! This year’s calendar showcases 12 stunning peatland wild life photographs contributed by peatland researchers.

Woo! #PeatPics got nominated for the Nobel Peat Prize!

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. Abstracts due 10 Jan 2026 - all welcome to submit. www.meet-here.ca/cgu-iah_2026...

A beautifully calm and wintery scene from Store Mosse National Park🇸🇪 this weekend 📸: photo from a member of the public as part of the Tracking the Colour of Peatlands project #PeatColours

Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...

Heureux de partager que notre article dans The Conversation — où nous expliquons comment la technologie peut aider à mieux comprendre le fonctionnement des tourbières — a été traduit en français ! theconversation.com/les-tourbier...

Another new paper I am very pleased to be part of, led by Katy Ivison looking at a neat citizen science method to understand landscape controls on fuel moisture and flammability across the UK! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Another new paper I am very pleased to be part of, led by Katy Ivison looking at a neat citizen science method to understand landscape controls on fuel moisture and flammability across the UK! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Really pleased to be part of this new study led by Josh Hashemi showing that to accurately upscale CH₄ budgets, especially in complex landscapes, we need high-res data and land-cover classes that reflect the key enviro factors driving CH4 production and emissions www.nature.com/articles/s43...

New ditch methane paper out, via my ongoing collaboration with Zhifeng Yan's group at Tianjin University. We show agricultural ditches can affect regional CH4 budgets. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Looking 👀for advice on #peat pipes🙏 Pipe flow approx. 1.5m below surface, several roof collapses, one large (see photo). The source of water is from a fairly steep slope. Is there anything that can be done to reduce erosion and bring the water to the surface? Any ideas greatly appreciated 😊

Very pleased to be part of this super cool new paper led by William Hagan Brown in @globalchangebio.bsky.social looking at the impact of elevated CO2 on canopy temperatures in an oak woodland at the BIFor-FACE experiment dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

This one is for the peatland nerds: We are organizing a session on 💧water in peatlands 🌿 at the ASLO conference in Montreal May 12-16 2026 - join us! Deadline for abstract submission Nov 25, more info here www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...