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

Hydrology Paper of the Day @peatofmind.bsky.social on 75 years of studying wetland hydrological processes in Canada: classification of wetlands based on environment and landscapes; fluxes and paritioning at different scales; and effects, impacts and processes due to landscape and climate changes.

Looking forward to a week of peaty discussions and beautiful views

Winter field work at a thermokarst fen in northern Alberta by PhD student Finn Kurylowicz this week - chilly but very successful. The first winter for the eddy covariance set-up and it had collected data on almost all days since late November.

Amazing graphic from Colorado State University #sustainabletransportation 🚌🚴‍♀️🚶‍♂️

We're hosting a World Wetlands Day event at University of Waterloo tomorrow. But, as the official WWD2025 comes to an end, the Wetland Soils and Greenhouse Gas Exchange Lab wants to share this wetland ear worm. You'll be singing about wetlands all week long... youtu.be/X5bt_ZG1YBE

Anyone else working on their dance moves in preparation for World Wetlands Day 2025?

For those of us studying northern wetlands, we often spend most of our time there in the summer. But they are just as beautiful in wintertime! Share your winter wetland photos and let us know something about where the photo was taken!

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

THREAD: Research we should be thankful for. The chances that we and everyone we know and love would be here today, alive, healthy and thriving without the advances of science and technology are basically zero. Today we look through the research and scientists to whom we owe everything. 1/19

‼️Today‼️We have a zoom webinar from @wetland-ghg.bsky.social at 3pm UK time on the @can-peat.bsky.social project - Canada’s #peatlands as nature-based climate solutions You can still register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #PeatSky

Does Canada want to have a stellar university system? Then we have to invest in it - and we haven't been. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Global mapping suggests that agriculture is the biggest source of peatland loss in Canada, but what do we really know about the area and potential GHG emissions? New review paper with Kelly Bona, Ph.D. and Chang Liang wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/EJN7C6...

Just ended a fabulous few days in Vancouver hosted by Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Lots of great conversations about building a love of peatlands and the challenges of maintaining them in urban areas

Peat fire ecohydrological modelling MSc research opps! We are recruiting two MSc researchers for a May or Sept 2025 start. #ecohydrology #wildfire #modelling #peatlands GIS, remote sensing, and/or Hydrus-1D modelling skills are an asset. Details at mcmasterecohydrology.ca/opportunitie...

“I care more about Drosera than the origin of all the species in the world”. Charles Darwin was a HUGE sundew fan. Who else wants to join this club? Please share so we can find other carnivorous plant lovers!