🌍🔍Peatlands of Canada's West Coast: A carbon store 3x larger than the regions rainforests. But: depth and extend are barely researched. 👉 Prof. @JürgenKreyling & @hanna-martens.bsky.social sky.social of @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social & @unigreifswald.bsky.social want to change that.

@hanna-martens.bsky.social berichtet über ihre Forschung zum Potenzial für die #Biodiversität 🪺🪻 auf wiedervernässten Mooren, die zusätzlich mit Photovoltaik ⚡️ überbaut sind. #RRR2025

Peat ECR is at the RRR this week in Greifswald! Join us and meet other early career researchers Monday evening for drinks from 6-8. For more details, check your latest email from the RRR organizing committee. rrr2025.com

www.cbc.ca/news/science... Glad to see this topic at the top of CBC News - watching fires burn up the boreal year after year sucks, and it's the peatlands burning that I worry about most

High recommend reading this beautiful piece about the Hudson's Bay Lowlands. In my work, polar bears don't make my list of "peatland typical species", but in this landscape, polar bears are definitely peatland species! canadiangeographic.ca/articles/ins...

Terrified to see what comes next. New bill means projects can be exempted from provincial environmental law. First target is the Ring of Fire, critical metals for EV's located inside the world's second largest peatland, the Hudson's Bay Lowlands www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🔎 Find and follow us on LinkedIn too now and get updates on #PeatNeeds, #PeatCalendar, #PeatPublications and other #PeatECR resources and services. 🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/peat...

🚨 #PeatECR don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants! 🗓️ Just less than a week left to apply for the final round of funding. Send us your wish list, let us know how we can support you! 🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧 ℹ️ More info on requirements and conditions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...

On my way to #EGU25! Looking forward to presenting on Monday at the session "Paludiculture, peatland management and restoration". I'll be presenting my first results on biodiversity in solar parks on rewetted peatland 🐦🌱

Also, I would bring up the complete destruction of peatlands for mining, especially for oil and gas but in the future, maybe also rare minerals (Hudson's Bay Lowlands). While I research agriculturally drained peatlands now, oil and gas destruction hits close to home www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thanks @hankgreen.bsky.social, it's so true! Why are we not all talking about how important peatlands are?! Globally, drained peatlands emit 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Wet peatlands are the best carbon capture system out there!

I've got the research area for this (peatland biodiversity) but not the photography skills unfortunately... Looking forward though to seeing all the cool wildlife photos that people submit! 🪲🦋

The first recipient of our March #PeatNeeds microgrants is Dylan Oliver. He is part of the wet woodlands research network (@wetwoodlands.bsky.social) where scientists and stakeholders are interested in nature-based solutions for climate change. 1/2

The next recipient of our March #PeatNeeds microgrants is Laura Catalina Riaño Peña. She is working on ecological restoration of pools in ombrotrophic and minerotrophic peatlands in Canada.

🚨 #PeatECR don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants! 🗓️ Just over a week left to apply for funding in March. Send us your wish list, before you head off into the field! 🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧 ℹ️ More info on requirements and conditions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...

In 2014, finishing a stint as a baby intern, I blew the whistle about Canadian Geographic providing cover for the oil industry to sneak propaganda into classrooms. A report this week exposes that campaign and much more (and mentions my small role, too!) www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/19/n...

3 jobs are available in the project WETSCAPES2.0 in Rostock, Germany. Check it out if your looking for a peaty, hands on job! Applications due March 3rd jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/d...

🌱 Job-Alarm: Wissenschaftskommunikation & Moorökologie! 🌿📢 Die Uni Greifswald sucht eine*n wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (50%, E13 TV-L) für WETSCAPES2.0! 🌍 📅 Deadline: 17.02.2025 - www.uni-greifswald.de/wetscapes2

#PeatNeeds is back! Need a little money to help support your research? Something not covered by your scholarship or project, but you still need it? 🥾🧪🔬 Check out our website to read about all the cool projects we've supported in the past!

Happy World Wetlands Day! And what a better way to celebrate, than to announce that #PeatNeeds is back! Applications are now open for $100 CAD microgrants. #PeatECR (within 7 years of terminal degree) are eligible for funding. For more information or to apply see docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...

Data analysis and writing fuelled by sun, sea, and coffee 😊

Sucks.. somehow last year my supervisor in Germany got more cross-country skiing days then I did in Canada, and not for lack of trying on my part. I miss winter!

♻️ Activity on this platform has increased a lot over the last month, so we thought we'd bring back this post about Dr Cat Moody's awesome study. Please get in touch with Cat if you do field work and can collect some water samples for her project 💧📦 #PeatECR #PeatSky

What happened to #SphagnumMonday? Found this beautiful patch in some amazing #bog. Only missing some snow flakes for perfect holiday decorations ❄️ Any fellow #moss enthusiasts here on 🦋? #wetlandspecies #boghabitat #peatlands

🕯️🕯️🎄Happy second Advent-week to all #PeatECR and #peatland folks! We’re looking for dynamic, motivated new members to continue our mission to support PeatECR all over the world 🤝🌎 Contact us via 🌐www.peatecr.com or via 📧 [email protected] for more information. 📸: @andreasheinem.bsky.social

🕯️🎄Happy first Advent-week to all #PeatECR and peatland folks! Did you send your #peatland equipment wish list to Santa yet? 🎅🤶 Look out for new #PeatNeeds offers coming up early next year, to complete your field preparations! Merry Christmas season! 📷: @burdun.bsky.social

If you need money to support your peaty work, apply for #PeatNeeds ! $100 CAD (~€75) is available to fund early career peatland research.

The next recipient of our July #PeatNeeds microgrants is Emelie Obi. Emelie’s research focuses on how oribatid mites, the dominant microarthropods in boreal peatlands, respond to climate change and associated environmental shifts. 1/4

The first recipient of our July #PeatNeeds microgrants is Ian Clancy. Ian is working to quantify the carbon and GHG dynamics of grassland on peat in Ireland. To do this he uses the eddy covariance method with the Teagasc NASCO network and automated chambers on a site in Gurteen Co. Tipperary. 1/4

The latest #PeatECR newsletter out! Check it out for some of the latest goings on in the peat world. If your a #PeatECR in need of financial support in the coming summer (or know those who might), we're providing micro grants to support peat research. More info in the newsletter

We’re excited to announce that applications for our #PeatNeeds microfunds are now open! #PeatECR (within 7 years of terminal degree) are eligible for funding. For more information or to apply see docs.google.com/forms/d/1oqF... Spread the word! 1/3

Hello #peat folks🌞🌻 We’re happy to announce that our #peatECR newsletter will soon be out! Check out past issues here: (peatecr.com/p-e-a-t-reso...). Want to feature your #peatlands publications in our newsletter? Reach out to us!

Our petition to save the #NatureRestorationLaw now also available in English (text below German text) actionnetwork.org/petitions/na... Please sign + share - Prime Minister #DeCroo as head of Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union has the duty to FORGE compromises, not DESTROY them!

Great peatland content from Ducks Unlimited! Lovely animations and content explaining the importance of Canadian boreal peatlands for carbon sequestration, and the threats to this mighty carbon sink youtu.be/kY5QzcfO37E?...

#NSERC funded #Post-Doc-Fellow opportunity to “address the growing challenge of accounting and mitigating managed #peatland #GHG emissions in #Canada”, starting in September 2024 or sooner. 🗓️Apply by May 30 ℹ️[email protected] ℹ️[email protected] #PeatlandFire #RemoteSensing

Clocks have started to change for summertime. For the next few weeks (March 11, 18, 25) #PeatWrites will be Mondays 7:30-10 MST, 9:30-12 EST, 13:30-16 GMT, 14:30-17 CET.

Canada Under Fire – Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season preprint essopenarchive.org/users/747500...

#Wiedervernässung kann eine Chance für Kommunen sein: #Treibhausgasen einsparen + klimafreundliche Energie produzieren, schreibt solarserver.de. Gibt #Photovoltaik auch ein Plus für #Biodiverrsität? Da forscht @unigreifswald.bsky.social dran... www.solarserver.de/2024/02/20/s...

It's exciting to be working on an innovative project like this! Looking forward to seeing what results me and my colleagues find over the next few years.

I'm very excited to announce I have started my PhD with the University of Greifswald! I'll be studying biodiversity in ecovoltaic (ecological photovoltaic) sites, where solar is combined with peatland rewetting. This has the potential for green energy, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity! 💧🌱☀️

Die Stadt Rostock plant eine großflächige Erweiterung des Hafens 🚢⚓🛥️ - auf Kosten eines naturnahen, wachsenden (!) Moors. Der @nabu.de & der @bundnet.bsky.social haben einen tollen Kurzfilm 📺 über die Ökologie des Moores an der Warnow & die möglichen Auswirkungen für Natur & Umwelt 🌿🪳 gedreht. 👇

Meine wunderbare Kollegin und Ko-Leiterin des @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social Greta Gaudig 😍 hat bei @zdfmagaz.in @janboehm.bsky.social erklärt, warum #Torf im Zimmer eine ganz schlechte Idee ist und ins nasse #Moor gehört. Sehr spannender und wichtiger Beitrag! #Pflanzifa @unigreifswald.bsky.social

Happy World Wetland Day! Photo of Forsinard Flows in the Flow Country, Scotland by Roxane Andersen

Come get some work done with other ECRs! Peat Writes is always a great time to get some focused work done and chat with other peat enthusiasts, and we're excited to start hosting it again!

Myself + @nickgirkin.bsky.social have a letter in Science today where we looked at all 195 nationally determined contributions following COP28 + found only 43 mention peatlands explicitly. We highlight the importance of recognising them as natural climate solutions

It's World Wetland Day! 💧🌱🌏 Here are some photos of the wetlands I've seen over the past year. It's personally been a great year for wetlands, I got to see a huge variety!

Peatland ECR calendars are still available, in case you're still looking for a peaty calendar for 2024!

The second edition of the Peatlands and Climate Change book is finally here! A fantastic group of authors brings content on peat accumulation, peatland GHG exchange, responses to disturbance and links to international conventions. holvi.com/shop/peatlan...

Months of report writing has me reminiscing about all the cool peatlands I saw last summer while doing field work in northern BC, Canada. My favorite was definitely the quaking fen! It did though require a rescue from a thankfully nearby colleague after I fell in to my waist. 😅