Excited to be in Halifax for this year's annual @cgu-ugc.bsky.social meeting. It's been a busy May so far with fieldwork, so what have we been up to?

🧵Jack Mintz has a new piece in the Financial Post arguing that men in Canada are being discriminated against through federal research funding allocation and Canada Research Chair hiring quotas. @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I found this is simply misinformation.

🚨 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)

Excited for Sarah Finkelstein’s talk at @uwaterloo.ca World Wetlands Day annual public lecture

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/...

Thousands of workers cut from the federal public service, including scientists, researchers, and entire programs across environmental, wildlife, and health fields. This is a devastating blow to science and monitoring across Canada, and will have far-reaching impacts. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Huge congrats to the excellent bakers in my research team (their award-winning cake modelled after a bucket lysimeter is in the bottom right)! Delicious science communication!

Please share. Calling all bog lovers and peat aficionados - please drop a thumbs up or comment on this talk, and show TEDx why bogs are the best. My great hope is that we can drum up more bog champions in this world. With love and appreciation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...

Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

The joy of reclaiming the street! (The road as closed for construction at the time and he was gleefully yelling ban cars as he ran down the street)

📣 Save the Date! You’re warmly invited by Line Rochefort, Maria Strack, and their teams to an upcoming event you won’t want to miss. 🗓️ Details coming soon on the www.gret-perg.ulaval.ca — stay tuned! @wetland-ghg.bsky.social

"Speed cameras are not about increasing government revenue, they’re about changing behaviour and saving lives." #onpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

So fun to be part of this project. Some research sites close to my heart included in this fun international collaboration. Thanks @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com for leading.

Working on some paper revisions and encountered some interesting messaging on the USDA webpage. Some propaganda with your soils research...

First Nations asked the Doug Ford gov't for oversight measures over special economic zones (law-free areas for trusted proponents & designated projects). They asked for a public registry, an appeals process on cabinet decisions and time limits. The government said no thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill...

Excellent 10 days in Alberta collecting a whole load of CO2 and CH4 flux data, vegetation surveys and drone surveys at our burned peatland sites - super cool to see the vegetation recovery already. Project in collaboration with @wetland-ghg.bsky.social

“…Canada 🇨🇦 continues to lag behind other countries in R&D spending; it spent 1.8% of GDP on research in 2024, placing it sixth in the G7 industrialized nations and well below the 2.7% average among the 38 nations that are members of the OECD.” 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Mark Carney calls it nation building. First Nations call it betrayal. Bill C-5 is Mark Carney’s plan to fast-track infrastructure and energy projects deemed to be in the “national interest.” But leaders warn it could ignite a new wave of Indigenous resistance. thewalrus.ca/first-nations-wa...

Spent the weekend in my happy place

COP15 of the Ramsar Convention starts today. Here in Canada we have the privilege of being home to a quarter of the world's remaining wetlands. Let's not forget what a treasure they are. theconversation.com/canadian-wet...

New PhD funding opportunity: Quantifying natural flood management through peatland restoration in the upland moorland environment (Physical Geography @exeter.ac.uk ) @dpanici.bsky.social @philipimetcalfe.bsky.social @uoe-creww.bsky.social www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Since 1970, a total of 411.5 million hectares of natural wetlands have been lost globally. To restore & conserve the wetlands essential for achieving global biodiversity and climate goals, we face a financing gap estimated between $275 billion and $550 billion. www.global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org

Always a pleasure to share information about how important our peatlands in Canada are and raise awareness about the threats they face www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Investigating the effect of interacting disturbances - fire and cut lines- on peatland carbon exchange @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com

We have a global treasure in the Hudson and James Bay Lowlands and we need to spread the word and fight to protect it

Spending the day in a boreal bog

Ever wondered how functional traits of common peatland plants vary among sites? We got you - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This was a fun group project with @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com and many grad students and post-docs.

🌍 Big news in peatland science! 5 current & former PERG researchers are in the global top 10 for peatland restoration! 🌿 🏆 Shoutout to Line Rochefort #1 worldwide! 💥 @ulaval.ca also ranks #1 globally! 📖 Read: shorturl.at/uJl6A #Peatlands #PeatSky @wetland-ghg.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social

We have given up our right to move safely (i.e., walking, cycling, dancing, running) in our cities so that cars can move "freely". Instead of standing up for that right of movement, we're told to protect our bodies for impact...

“Most people think Ontario is all forest,” he says, “but Omushkego land is so much more. It’s my home, my history, my people.” - Jeronimo Kataquapit The Hudson Bay Lowland is indeed so much more to so many people. canadiangeographic.ca/articles/ins... #peatlands #climatechange #biodiversity

"This is what Bill 5 is saying, 'Let us go ahead and... ruin your lands... but we'll throw you a little bit of money.'" — Kate Kempton (Woodward & Company) tonight at 8/11pm with Zachary Davis (Pape Salter Teillet LLP), Chief Peter Wesley (Moose Cree First Nation), and @jeyantvo.bsky.social

Such a #peaty day at #CMOSxCGU2025!

Flux flux flux! Starting fieldwork with MSc and PhD student out in the #peatland of Pointe Lebel. Shoutout to @wetland-ghg.bsky.social for lending us the #LGR for catotelm fluxes

Important session to kickoff #CMOSxCGU2025

Lots of familiar faces at YYZ on their way to Saskatoon for #CMOSxCGU2025 @cgu-ugc.bsky.social

On to the swamps today. Ground layer and tree stem fluxes with @smilingmegs.bsky.social

It’s a fen fluxin’ kinda day

We've long supported active #restoration of #peatlands post-extraction, using enhanced #rewetting and #moss transfer The Can-Peat project, synthesizing historical and recent data on C exchanges from restored areas in Canada, backs this approach! 📖 tinyurl.com/4cwvbs88 @wetland-ghg.bsky.social

NEW – Analysis: Conservative election win could add 800m tonnes to Canada’s emissions by 2035 | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/ comment from Emma Starke and Katya Rhodes Read here: buff.ly/0HQhsZk

Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

This #GivingBlueday, there’s a lot to love about UMBS. One of senior Kailey Koshorek’s favorite experiences at UMBS was Mud Lake Bog: “It’s wild.” Donate (www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...) before midnight to help support science & discovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=17nY...

Looking for some fun wetland content to spice up spring break? Enjoy this one-page wetland role playing game. All you need is a 6-sided die and something to mark your progress. Follow this link to the full version with hyperlinks to all the fun wetland facts: uwaterloo.ca/wetland-soil...

This is huge news and such an amazing opportunity to support excellent researchers working in Canada.

One of the heroes that was scrubbed

Welcome to the many new followers. You're in for content about wetlands and their awesome carbon storage superpower. And goofy content about how much we love them in our research group. youtu.be/X5bt_ZG1YBE

Really fun to work with Futurum to produce this resource

Was great to be a part of this collaboration and have so many excellent contributors at the workshop that led to this paper @can-peat.bsky.social