🚨Looking for a Geoscience Perspective on Climate Change? Exp403 co-chief Kristen St. John and former JRFB chair Larry Krissek just published this OPEN ACCESS book on it! Download it for free below! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

New research shows Colorado's subalpine wetlands may harbor a health risk impacting downstream water supplies. Read the story by @CIRESnews Fellow Eve-Lyn Hinkley here: buff.ly/UJCuQ26 Photo by Eve-Lyn Hinckley

Are you attending ESA this year? Are you a biocrust lover? Come to COS 011 on Monday 1:30 pm to learn all about CrustNet and biological soil crusts. We are excited to recruit new collaborators and new sites for this project. #esa2025 @womeninsoileco.bsky.social

It's not only us melting, but Permafrost peatlands, too! Covering 1.4 million km² across the Northern Hemisphere these landscapes are massive carbon stores. Due to rising temps they are thawing fast.

My first ever student mentee was just informed she is graduating with honors for her work on high elevation wetlands and I am SO SO PROUD!

📸 #PeatECR get your camera ready before heading into this year’s field season! 🗓️ The 2026 #Peat Calendar is in the planning! Send us your best #peatland *WILDLIFE* photo until September 30th: 📧 [email protected]

For our next #HumansOfCIRES, meet Jesse Rush (@lifesjustpeaty.bsky.social), a PhD student @colorado.edu studying carbon cycling in peatland ecosystems. Jesse has worked on multiple long-term global change projects, she loves to read books by Becky Chambers, and she teaches Zumba. buff.ly/lH8FTte

March 2025 climate summary for the Arctic is now up on the Alaska and Arctic Climate Newsletter. Important regional variability but no surprises at the pan-Arctic scale. #Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange #Spring2025 @climatologist49.bsky.social alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/march-2025...

Looking for an introduction to the LTER Network? Check out this short video! youtu.be/_rKX3cfmf4M We're so many things to so many people—but at our core, our sites are trying to understand how ecosystems function and change over time.

New paper on bioclimatic envelope modelling of peat in @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1. New projections and tweaks to methods give us higher confidence than previous attempts.

Me?! A grad student?! At a football game?! Alright I’m in 🥰 #skobuffs

I’m pleased to announce the winner of our first 2024 Nobel Peat Prize! @peatlandecr.bsky.social wins for top peatland outreach/network organization! I will donate $500 ($1/Gt C stored in northern peatlands) to their PEAT NEEDS fund. Another #NobelPeatPrize winner announced next Thursday.

Just a kitty wanting to do some peatland research

My first postdoc paper is live and open access! Here was asked a simple question: what happens to methane in canals draining tropical peatlands? Turns out, lots of it is consumed by methanotrophs! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last big wet lab project of my PhD? EEMS

Academia is strange. Get enough publications in the right journals and you'll be allowed to lead a team. No one checks whether you have the skills to lead a team, of course, why would they? You've published in journals. This should work out just fine.

Restarting my tradition of sharing peatland references I stumble upon in my fiction reading 😊🌱 “In 1976 Manchester Museum had in its collection four preserved bog bodies…” Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

50/50 books for the year? DONE! Favorite: A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers 🥰

I am sooooo silty clay

How do you pay rent? With money, like a sucker? Have you thought about using eels? In medieval England, people did just that! In fact, eel-rents were very common. In 1100, English landlords collected more than 500,000 eels in rent each year. That's a lot of eels! Here's a map: 🗃️🧪

Heading to EGU next year and have any cool northern peatland C research? Submit to our session “The Future of Northern Peatlands – Sinks or Sources of Atmospheric Carbon” - happy to co-convene this with Melanie Mayes, Xiaoying Shi and Avni Malhotra! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio...

"I began to make a point of empowering others rather than judging them, finding mentors and role models to guide me and hold me accountable, refraining from gossip, and building meaningful relations as a foundation of my academic career."

Finally made my way over here! Excited to keep growing my network of cool science folks but not as excited as I am about peat, biogeochemistry and ecosystem ecology 😉😎