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...

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

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