Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...

New on Peatpedia - an attempt to demystify #peatland carbon stores, sinks, and other gassy issues! open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...

Just accepted a request from Hydrological Processes to review a paper. I am the *25th* person to be approached. The previous 24 have turned down the request to review. No wonder some papers are a long time 'in the system', much to our frustration. Peer review can't go on like this.

For over 15 years the McMaster Ecohydro Lab has awarded the #NobelPeatPrize to the authors of the best peatland or peat paper of the year. It’s that time of year again where we review papers and finalize a list of nominees. Do you have a fave paper for 2025 you would like us to consider?

Our Annual Reviews paper "Rewilding: Ten Years of Evolution and Development" is now available Open Access. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Looking for a PhD in aquatic carbon/GHG cycling? Take a look at this fantastic opportunity. Led by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social and with Amy Pickard, Jens-Arne Subke and me. Field + lab components, and lots of exciting science. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Fab work by our PhD student Resti Salmayenti who has published her first thesis paper in Environmental Research Letters showing how drainage and land cover interact to affect fire occurrence in Indonesian peatlands. Our paper is open access here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

We have been described as "THE BEST NGO THAT NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT" Please help by following us & reposting!!!

Check out our new paper: "Peatland pools are tightly coupled to the contemporary carbon cycle" A short thread and some site photos! doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

This week I examined a PhD. I was paid £210 for doing so. I estimate the true cost for my time is > £2000. The candidate is an overseas student who pays very high fees. Where does all the money go? (A rhetorical question!)

‘Why are some peatlands resilient to climate change and others not?’ Fully-funded NERC PhD studentship with me and Paul Morris at the University of Leeds. Please re-post. Details: panorama-dtp.ac.uk/research/why...

The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2023 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! The winner will be announced at the end of November from Nobel, Ontario. #PeatPaper

Ooops; I see I forgot to remove the X/Twitter hashtags from the first post in the thread!

5/5 Funded by UK Natural Environment Research Council, and an amazing congopeat.net team effort!

4/n The new model will now be run into the future to simulate how management and climate change might affect the Congo peatland carbon store over the next 50-100 years.

3/n The new model, constrained with field data, is able to reproduce the distinctive age-depth curve from the peatland, including the ‘ghost interval’, and reveals that the peatland likely lost over 6 m of peat over a period of ~3000 years during climatic drying.

2/n In the paper we use a new version of the DigiBog model to simulate carbon accumulation and loss from a Congolese peatland, building on the work reported in our earlier open access Nature paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/n New open access #PeatTwitter #PeatPaper: “Simulating carbon accumulation and loss in the central Congo peatlands” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

Hi. If anyone is looking for a PhD on Understanding the Resilience of Restored Peatlands to New Climate Extremes, and you are UK-based, we have an open position. Please feel free to get in touch for more info on apply here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

One week left to apply for this 5 year PhD/graduate teaching assistant role at University of Liverpool. My PhD project is: "Unravelling the true climate effect of peatland restoration" Lots of fieldwork opportunities on glorious bogs! Link👇 my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...

Some blue sky over a peatland for my first post 😀 Caribou Bog in 2007