An interesting day at Hafod Elwy with @peatlandcymru.bsky.social colleagues surveying recovery at a forest to bog restoration site.
Rapid colonisation of sphagnum cuspidatum is great to see in the pools with hummock forming species also doing well!
Otherworldly sphagnum waterfall cascading over a ledge. Out sampling with @biogeo-josh.bsky.social
Daffodil season down the allotment
I've seen this before - there's a free stock image library with a load of mislabelled sphagnum/polytrichum... I imagine it's claimed another victim!
An enjoyable day on Cors Fochno has ended with me being treated for suspected Lyme disease.
Occupational hazard, I guess, but we did get to see some impressive sphagnum pools!
Training. I was giving him training in spotting poor equipment fitting. All deliberate.
Back from Aviemore after organising field training in winter environments.
Note the colleagues behind bowing down to my superior crampon technique
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Finally updating contact details and affiliations - now "lead specialist advisor" for peatlands at Natural Resources Wales.
Get in touch if you want to develop research proposals in Wales. We have sites of ongoing and future restoration, friendly people and so much data...
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First update from STOTEN in a while. Yet none of these ongoing issues are obvious from STOTEN's homepage. I'd be annoyed if I had been unaware and published with them in the past year.
There is also a suggestion that best quality peatlands will still actually be developed on, if this is 'unavoidable' by which I assume we mean 'most profitable'
Yeah, I've got more time for a discussion of tradeoffs (see East Anglia and food security / offshoring emissions for details) or indeed that some heavily degraded systems are actually unrestorable but some of the arguments in here are off, or rely on a reinterpretation of the term 'irreplaceable'
It's at the bottom of the document: Dr Andy Mills of OWC, a wind energy consultancy
Yes, they are arguing that peat is restorable, therefore they should be allowed to degrade it. But also that degraded peat should be built on rather than restored. A lot of argument over the semantics of the word 'irreplaceable' ignoring the context of biodiversity offsetting where it came from.
Final data downloads from the GGR-Peat Featherbed site. As well as the weather station we have 54 dipwells logged at 15 min resolution for four years = 7.5 million data points!
Data starting to come in from our Bezos Earth Fund project looking at sphagnum and methanotrophy.
If nothing else we had fun playing with the bubble columns!
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A split image showing Canford Heath, Dorset: left side features a 1960s land utilization survey map with color-coded zones; right side displays a present-day satellite view, highlighting urban development over former heathland.
A historical land use map of Downham Market, Norfolk from the 1960s, shaded to show various land types like arable, urban, and woodland.
Four digitised maps showing land cover changes in Wolverhampton, England from 1930 to 2020, highlighting shifts from broadleaved woodland and grassland to arable land and urban areas.
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Hobo u20. Don't get the fancy Bluetooth version with paired barometric top unit... They are not watertight which is a key feature for a water table logger
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All about GHG emissions and aquatic carbon. Watch this space!
Wrapping up the GGR-Peat project just in time before the gas collars were subsumed into sphagnum hummocks!
