Excited to be a speaker at TEDx Boulder Dreams and Reality this Sunday. Teaser: My dream is to live in a world that embraces boglands as sacred places. The reality is we live in a world intent on destroying them. But we can fight back and become bog champions. tedxboulder.com/speakers/dre...

Remembering my dear friend and trusted field partner on all things Sphagnum and peat, Teresa Hollingsworth (1975-2025). May your memory cross into the bogs of forever.

Count the mosquitos. Still my happy place with a never ending tundra of peat, moss, and cotton grass.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @queenofpeat.bsky.social and colleagues on fast thawing phenomena and permafrost processes: quantitatively defining "abrupt thaw" based on ecosystem change and spatial scale; situating thaw in the context of the carbon cycle; models; and decision tree classification.

What do we mean by abrupt permafrost thaw? This site above the permafrost tunnel in Alaska had no evidence of a sinkhole in this spot last fall. This thermokarst pit formed in the past several months, large enough for Hailey Webb, who made the discovery, to climb down into it.

What do we mean by abrupt permafrost thaw? This site above the permafrost tunnel in Alaska had no evidence of a sinkhole in this spot last fall. This thermokarst pit formed in the past several months, large enough for Hailey Webb, who made the discovery, to climb down into it.

Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.

Happy bog day! Some photos from Shorepine Bog, Ucluelet #BC this June.

Boggy bits around Hatchet Pond in the New Forest. #BogDay #NewForest

Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.

Hot off the presses! Abrupt permafrost thaw is a critical climate feedback but is poorly defined & understood. In an awesome collaboration between my team & the Permafrost Carbon Network, PhD student Hailey Webb provides a formal definition to guide future studies. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper led by PhD student Will Cox makes 2 discoveries: 1) understory plants predict early onset of abrupt permafrost thaw. 2) early stages of abrupt thaw are associated with high methane release, not accounted for in previous models or frameworks. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Hot off the presses! Abrupt permafrost thaw is a critical climate feedback but is poorly defined & understood. In an awesome collaboration between my team & the Permafrost Carbon Network, PhD student Hailey Webb provides a formal definition to guide future studies. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sphagnum mosses are fascinating from physiology, ecology, and climate perspectives. I'm especially proud of this @newphyt.bsky.social paper meant to inspire new research on ecoevolution and biodiversity. Check out the incredible cover art by Blanka Aguero! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sphagnum mosses are fascinating from physiology, ecology, and climate perspectives. I'm especially proud of this @newphyt.bsky.social paper meant to inspire new research on ecoevolution and biodiversity. Check out the incredible cover art by Blanka Aguero! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#TansleyReview: The challenging but unique eco-evolutionary aspects of #SphagnumMoss @queenofpeat.bsky.social, et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Hydrology Paper of the Day @mparrington.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @jmccartygeo.bsky.social on climate change, Arctic and high-latitude wildfires: risk, permafrost processes, air quality and fire emissions; remote sensing data products; and monitoring.

Sometimes the universe sends a sign to take a deep breath, exhale, and trust the powers of nature. I needed this today more than ever, and am guessing some of you might too.

First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social

What do we gain when we restore boglands? Biodiversity, drought and fire prevention, cleaner water, long-term carbon storage, and ecosystems that inspire you to redefine beauty. Save bogs, save ourselves.

Beautiful Sphagnum in memory of Dr. Theresa Hollingsworth (1975-2025). gofund.me/802ca765

A scholarship in Dr. Teresa Hollingsworth’s name will support an emerging woman or member of an underserved community conduct research in boreal ecology. Please consider a donation so that Teresa’s legacy supports people passionate about moss, bogs, and boreal forests. gofund.me/c8b76d2e

This week the world lost a great bogland and moss lover, and I lost a best friend of 25 years. Rest in peace Dr. Teresa Hollingsworth - your memory will always give me strength and passion. I was blessed with all the powers of Sphagnum and sage to have you in my life for so long.

What do we gain when we restore boglands? Biodiversity, drought and fire prevention, cleaner water, long-term carbon storage, and ecosystems that inspire you to redefine beauty. Save bogs, save ourselves.

Anyone want to take a peak inside my lab and an exciting ongoing project? Read below and join us for a little tour of some very cool science, pun absolutely intended. Please comment with your own science pun! I need a laugh today.

Like the new pope, I am a Villanova grad and alumni, where I learned about climate change and the importance of scientific evidence. May the arc of justice swing towards compassion, equity, and just progress. #Hope

Last summer my students and I spent time in the field with a dear colleague and friend. A PhD student called her his “Science Hero”. She could lose her federal job imminently. Knowledge and science infrastructure - and the ability to keep people safe - are crumbling. But we are also losing HEROES.

Once in a lifetime opportunity to tour one of the world’s largest peatlands!! Check out the details below. Swoon.

Feeling bogged down or mired in anxiety? Consider that boglands, once equated to wastelands of misery, offer beauty and innovation. These treasures protect history as they control our climate future. With internal strength built one peat layer at a time, bogs control vast landscapes. Love the bogs.

Feeling bogged down or mired in anxiety? Consider that boglands, once equated to wastelands of misery, offer beauty and innovation. These treasures protect history as they control our climate future. With internal strength built one peat layer at a time, bogs control vast landscapes. Love the bogs.

The scientists are sciencing, and standing together. This week my team partners with NOAA researchers to make the most comprehensive assessment of reactive trace gas emissions from northern soils. We are going far deeper than CO2 and CH4 to understand atmospheric interactions with Arctic ecosystems.

The scientists are sciencing, and standing together. This week my team partners with NOAA researchers to make the most comprehensive assessment of reactive trace gas emissions from northern soils. We are going far deeper than CO2 and CH4 to understand atmospheric interactions with Arctic ecosystems.

Boglands have recorded periods of brutal human history and large-scale contamination of the environment. Throughout massive climate, geological, and social upheaval, boglands silently preserve the evidence of human progress and human stupidity. Bogs will have their say.

🚨HEY DORKS, WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨 We preparing for a BIG fight against Trump's attack on science and we won't stop until we win! We are grassroots and run on donations. Whether it's $5 or $500, every little bit counts in the fight to save science. #standupforscience actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Well, I just submitted a review of a National Science Foundation proposal. It was almost 100-pgs in all and described novel, creative, high-impact ideas. Please share if you think science is important to society. We need help.

Heartfelt and inspiring last session of my class Wetland Ecology and Management. Students presented incredible outreach projects that ranged from community science in parks to elementary school card games to children’s books. Proud of these wetland ambassadors. @colorado.edu

I just briefed an international group of military officials on the importance of permafrost thaw to national and international security. We cannot talk about resilience of climate, food, infrastructure, energy, or governance without thinking about permafrost. Thaw is often rapid and irreversible.

Happy Earth Day from yet another beautiful and endangered wetland.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @queenofpeat.bsky.social on peatland fires that continue burning during winter in the NWT and Alaska: how biomass controls the spatial prevalence of fires in lieu of fire weather areas; seedlings, soils and trees over a transect; and quantifying biogeochemical cycles.

Boglands - where beauty flows from an overabundance of death. The hope of resilience, grit, and quiet determination is perhaps the hope we all need.

You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. -Maya Angelou

Moss (and ferns and rock) back at you - not very boggy though.

It’s rare that I have no words, but here we are. Instead I give you the gift of Sphagnum moss.

It’s rare that I have no words, but here we are. Instead I give you the gift of Sphagnum moss.

When the world feels bleak, I try to remember that there is magic and beauty out there to teach us, if we are looking.

When the world feels bleak, I try to remember that there is magic and beauty out there to teach us, if we are looking.

Just a woman scientist saying that no matter what I am allowed to say about climate change to funders/govt, the bogs will have their say.

Bogs are both mysterious and scary. Like old school fairy tale.

Bogs are the nurseries of so many of our songbirds. All hail the mighty bog!!! The arctic rocks!!!

We drain bogs as wastelands. Our language scorns them. But they have both warmed and cooled global climate. They can tame massive wildfires or keep them burning all winter long. This month, a bog took several military lives and swallowed a powerful armored vehicle. Boglands will have their say.