A selfie of a group of people in rain jackets together with two green pile driver rams, which have plastic eyes stuck to them.

A woman drilling holes into wooden fence posts in a wide grassland landscape.

We've been busy over the past weeks setting up #WETSCAPES2.0 research sites in already wet or to be rewetted #peatlands. Big thanks to our newest team members, the two "greenhorns" BetramM and RamMona 😉, who really pulled their weight helping us to build fence posts! @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social

In general: Connecting sensor and node is easy and can be done with a simple screwdriver. It gets a bit more complicated on the software side, programming the node to send data and retrieving it from the cloud, but nothing impossible if you really set your mind to it.

I completely understand and until recently would have said the same. However, now we have a project that is running on ~80 sites that are spread out over a large area. Since we can't visit every fen regularly, the ability to retrieve live data is really helpful in monitoring sensor health.

If you are willing to get a little techy: Keller 26Xi, attached to LoRaWAN node for getting live data.

A big patch of red peat mosses within other bog vegetation.

A person kneeling down to take a picture of red peat mosses.

Two feathers lie on a patch of Sphagnum mosses amongst other bog vegetation.

Red peat mosses never get old... 😍

Had a fantastic day in the field with colleagues from practice and science, sharing experiences on #bog #restoration.

Fresh air, feet amongst living #Sphagnum, a flock (!) of eagles overhead: It doesn't get any better than this!

#ILoveMyJob #OptiMuM

Versuch: Können Moore schneller wiederbelebt werden? Forschenden pflanzen Torfmoose im Königsmoor an Die Moose wachsen normalerweise sehr langsam. Forschende wollen die Renaturierung durch den Versuch beschleunigen.

#Moore sind schnell zerstört, aber leider nur langsam wieder zum Leben erweckt. In #OptiMuM untersuchen wir, wie es schneller gehen kann, und der @ndr.de war dabei. 👇

Darin auch @vytash.bsky.social's Tipp gegen schlechte Laune bei Regenwetter: ▶️ Moorschützer:in werden!

www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

💧🌱#RRR2025 finished today -
Thanks to all the participants and speakers making it ...
not just a conference ...
but an event to remember !🌿
#Peatlands #Paludiculture

A poster of RRR2025 conference on a brick wall in the sunlight.

Shedding a light on #paludiculture: Enjoying the second day of #RRR2025, hearing about potentials, data, conflicts and solutions when implementing wet use of #peatlands. @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social

Fresh #OptiMuM project impressions of how the #Sphagnum 'handfuls' have developed after one growing season in Königsmoor, Schleswig-Holstein. Carbon sequestration coming up. #natürlicherklimaschutz @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social @umweltministerium.de @terhorab.bsky.social @aerenchyma.bsky.social

A boardwalk leading through a sunny alder carr.

Do you also think that there is still too little research on methane exchange of alder trees? Here is one new little puzzle piece from our lab:

Authors: Daniel Köhn, @aerenchyma.bsky.social, Marko Smiljanic, @terhorab.bsky.social

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🌾 Planung trifft Forschung – Moor trifft Meer. 🌊#Ostseestiftung, @ostseeforschung.bsky.social und Sonderforschungsbereich WETSCAPES 2.0 der @unigreifswald.bsky.social ‬& #UniversitätRostock gemeinsam unterwegs im Polder Fuhlendorf.
Ein eingedeichtes Küstenmoor, bald wieder nass – mit Synergien!

Viagra Boys — The Bog Body (Official Video) YouTube video by viagra boys

Hey #peatland ppl! Do you also get stupidly excited when you find music with peat references, or is it just me? 🎶
I just stumbled across this song and it made me so happy 😀. What's your favourite peatland-related song?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFhM...

A group of people standing in a large grassland.

Two pairs of feet with sneakers and rubber boots standing on grassland.

A green frog with brown markings sitting between grasses.

What a huge scale! Last week we walked >16 km across a drained peat grassland to select study plots at our #wetscapes2.0 landscape-level experiment on peatland #rewetting. Soon sneakers won't be a suitable any more, and frogs don't have to rely on drainage ditches to thrive!

Kicking off WETSCAPES 2.0! This week marked the start of the first @dfg.de collaborative research center dedicated to researching rewetted fens. Over 50 scientists discussed the 100 screening sites, 5 core sites, and 2 landscape-level experiments. And we installed the first of our 1,000 sensors!

Would you like to work with these lovely boxes? ⬇️

Then check out the three technical positions we currently have on offer and send us your application (deadline March 10)!

tinyurl.com/daubpvht
tinyurl.com/s63ymce5

Cardboard box filled with a lot of smaller cardboard boxes.

So it has begun!
What looks like an inconspicuous box of boxes actually is the start of our planned sensor network for environmental conditions in rewetted fens.
#wetscapes2.0

Messtechnik-Ingenieur*in: jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/c...

Technische*r Assistent*innen: jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/8...

In einem nassen Niedermoor steht eine Person neben einer Wetterstation und befestigt weitere Messeinrichtungen an einem Stab.

Du magst Technik UND draußen sein? Dann haben wir vielleicht den perfekten Job für dich! Wir bieten insgesamt drei technische Stellen in einem abwechslungsreichen und wertschätzenden Umfeld:
tinyurl.com/daubpvht
tinyurl.com/s63ymce5

2024 ends plentiful: We offer 21 jobs at 7 institutions in our new collaborative research center. If you are a #peat
-head and think these are #fen -tastic news, please send us your application! More information:
www.uni-greifswald.de/wetscapes2

#WomenInSTEM #rewetting #wetscapes2.0

@fjansen.bsky.social @terhorab.bsky.social @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social

A man walking through knee-high water with waders.

A number of waders hanging over a wooden fence.

12 people in waders and rain jackets behind a pile of metal poles and wire mesh.

Winter is for finishing, recalibrating and community. Today we combined it all and cleaned up our longest running field site, which looks like a lake but is actually a #peatland, in a joined effort by Universities of Rostock and Greifswald. Wishing you all a joyful end of the year!

Yesterday, we finished the #sphagnum moss transfer for the season near EwigesMeer NW Germany. Luckily weather has been awesome. Project #OptiMuM, funded by @bmuv.de. #peatland #raisedbog #restoration @aerenchyma.bsky.social @fjansen.bsky.social @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social @terhorab.bsky.social

Peat profile with mineral layer between 14 and 32 cm depth.

Maybe humans? Here in northern Germany some #peatlands were covered with sand or other debris, in order to "improve" properties for cultivation. The profile in the picture contained a middle layer of, among other things, brick fragments.

@fjansen.bsky.social

Absolutely can't wait to work (again) in such a strong consortium! At the Rostock Landscape Ecology group we will focus on studying vegetation patterns within and surrounding #rewetted #peatlands, exchange processes, and on providing research data infrastructure and environmental data. Let's go!

Zumindest in MV erlebe ich dabei viele Mitarbeitende in den Naturschutzverwaltungen, die versuchden den Laden trotz Strukturproblemen und Unterfinanzierung mit viel Engagement mehr schlecht als recht am Laufen halten.

Dieser Artikel beschreibt sehr zutreffend die Probleme des behördlichen Naturschutzes in den Ländern aus meiner Erfahrung.
www.nul-online.de/artikel.dll/...

Rapid shift in methane carbon isotopes suggests microbial emissions drove record high atmospheric methane growth in 2020–2022 | PNAS The growth rate of the atmospheric abundance of methane (CH4) reached a record high of 15.4 ppb yr−1 between 2020 and 2022, but the mechanisms driv...

The positive feedback between climate change and peatland methane emissions (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...) forces us to reduce anthropogenic methane emissions from fossil fuels and agriculture ASAP.

Thanks for creating the starter pack! Could you please add @vytash.bsky.social and myself? Would love to have more people find our work on temperate bog / fen restoration and GHG exchange of peatlands!

#methane is no argument against #peatland rewetting! This message needs to be heard by everyone. Thanks for the clear explanations and beautiful animation, @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social!