One month left to apply for the summer round it @peatlandecr.bsky.social 2026 #PeatNeeds micro grants. It's a really easy application process, so go check it out if you are in need of a small financial boost as summer fieldwork kicks off.

Tropical #peatlands are ancient and diverse ecosystems. Vast watery peat #swamps dominated by tall palms and hardwood trees, coastal peat-forming #mangroves and marshes, and mountain Sphagnum bogs. 📢My new post on Peatpedia introduces these tropical wetlands. open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...

📢 We’re excited to launch: Suivre la couleur des milieux humides au Québec (Tracking the Colour of Wetlands in Quebec) as part of the CARCLIQUE Research Chair. Building on Tracking the Colour of Peatlands, the network now includes a wider range of Quebec wetlands.

📢 Lancement du projet « Suivre la couleur des milieux humides au Québec » dans le cadre de la Chaire CARCLIQUE! Inspiré de Tracking the Colour of Peatlands, ce réseau suit désormais une diversité de milieux humides à travers le Québec.

📢 We’re excited to launch: Suivre la couleur des milieux humides au Québec (Tracking the Colour of Wetlands in Quebec) as part of the CARCLIQUE Research Chair. Building on Tracking the Colour of Peatlands, the network now includes a wider range of Quebec wetlands.

📢 Lancement du projet « Suivre la couleur des milieux humides au Québec » dans le cadre de la Chaire CARCLIQUE! Inspiré de Tracking the Colour of Peatlands, ce réseau suit désormais une diversité de milieux humides à travers le Québec.

Our latest work on #methane emissions from ditches and canals draining tropical #peatlands is now online and open access at Limnology & Oceanography Letters! aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Excellent few weeks setting up more peatland and swamp sites for my new PhD student and incoming postdoc. Rained off today (with a tornado! warning!) Big shout out to the team!

I'm looking for a post-doc to work on the interaction between past hydrological changes and vegetation in a disturbed peatland, using paleoecological and modelling approaches. The post-doc duration is 18 months and start date is any time before Jan 2027. DM if you are interested / have questions! 🌿🧪

Calling all peaty people. Still time to submit to our special issue on peatlands. Details below. Free free to DM/email me if you want to ask any questions.

That exciting moment when you first put (metaphorical) pen to paper and start writing a new manuscript. This one is all about the Swedish mountain lake sampling I did a few years back, also featuring @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com

Might be quite grizzly for some - but a pretty fascinating video from one of our field sites of a HUGE snapping turtle eating a beaver (QC, Canada)

Excited to start expanding our peatland phenology work with our new toy = A ChromoMapper from PyrOptik (an affordable hyperspectral imaging system: 400 - 950nm) Can’t wait to take it for a spin out on our sites.

Happy World Peatlands Day ! Another opportunity to promote the #PeatColours project. It’s been such a brilliant way to engage with the public on the importance of these beautiful landscapes peatcolours.github.io/tracking.html #worldpeatlandsday

@cgu-ugc.bsky.social meeting in Halifax with session on EDI: “community” vs “citizen” science and defining expertise @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com

Pleased to see this out: 'Assessing the Response of Blanket Peatlands to Climate Change Using the DigiBog Model and Winter's Concept of the “Hydrologic Landscape”'. Available open access here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Proud to co-lead the CARCLIQUE Quebec Research Chair with Michelle Garneau, advancing research on wetlands, carbon & nature-based climate solutions. Huge thanks to our MELCCFP partners and Léonie, our research coordinator! Photos from last Thursday’s launch! carclique.uqam.ca

Proud to co-lead the CARCLIQUE Quebec Research Chair with Michelle Garneau, advancing research on wetlands, carbon & nature-based climate solutions. Huge thanks to our MELCCFP partners and Léonie, our research coordinator! Photos from last Thursday’s launch! carclique.uqam.ca

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...