After Canada’s second-worst wildfire season on record, @mikeflannigan.bsky.social (@thompsonriversu.bsky.social) warns 2026 could be a “litmus test” for what’s ahead. Tonight at 8pm with @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: Diego Garcia
I’m visiting the SLU Dept. of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment in Uppsala today and saw this on a bookshelf. The dept is home to our 2024 and 2025 #NobelPeatPrize laureates. #peatland
That feeling when your nerdy ecohydrology knowledge of both Newtonian mechanics and peatland vegetation combine to solve the Saturday NYT connections puzzle in record time 🤓
wait no flux chambers?
A new peat paper in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social enaccess.bsky.social
Problem is, it's chock-full of AI generated references, including several papers with my name on that don't exist. How did the reviewers not spot this?
www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/16...
Just noticed I’m on a fictitious paper too.
Celebrating Line Rochefort, named to the 2026 Women Changemakers in the World of Wetlands
At 16, she taught herself botany after being excluded from science camps for boys only. Today, she’s a global pioneer in #peatland #restoration and continues to champion women in science.
shorturl.at/n67Nb
We are applying the moss layer transfer technique on rock barrens to kickstart moss growth following wildfire.
Make moss, not war! 💚
New paper!
We took our peatland moss expertise and methods and applied it to fill and spill water storage dynamics to examine the hydrological controls on rock barrens moss and lichen mat growth. Mat NPP increases with increasing bedrock depression storage.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🚨Funded #PhD opp🚨 in my lab, co supervised by Vincent Maire at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Linking above-and belowground plant #phenology to carbon cycling in #peatlands
You can see full advert (in english/french) here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...
Please share!
🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨
Disturbance Impacts on swamp and forested peatlands in southern Québec
This project will quantify how disturbances affect carbon cycling and hydrology in swamp and forested peatlands of southern Québec
More info here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...
very 1986 Depeche Mode Black Celebration’esque.
New paper led by Rachel Fallas & Chantel Markle with
6 winters of @nobel-water.bsky.social data
Micrometeorological variability and climate change affect snake overwintering habitat resilience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rattlesnakes overwinter in east Georgian Bay #peatland hummocks
Agreed! Axe Lake fen?
Happy #WorldWetlandsDay!
Photo: “After the Squalls”
(Peatland 234 at the NOBEL Water and Carbon Observatory @nobel-water.bsky.social)
www.worldwetlandsday.org
In 2010 the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab started research in Nobel @nobel-water.bsky.social and every year since have awarded the #NobelPeatPrize for the top #peatland paper of the year. *
* While “unpresidented”, in case he tries, the #NobelPeatPrize rules are clear. The award is non transferable.
Fun day at the annual McMaster Ecohydrology Lab "Peat Retreat" at @nobel-water.bsky.social
#peatlands #ecohydrology
A member of the public took a photo of the #peatland at Castell Nos in Wales 🏴 every Sunday this year and even sent me this video he made!
I really love how people have embraced #PeatColours across the world
Annual Christmas GPS map art with Emma!
Santa Gnome / Tomtenisse
Feel free to reach out to me or my colleagues with any questions if you want to join SEES.
#AcademicJobs #ClimateResilience #AI #EnvironmentalScience #ArcticResearch
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The School of Earth, Environment and Society (SEES) at McMaster is particularly interested in applications from experts in Al, environmental science, climate resilience, and/or Arctic studies. If this aligns with your expertise, we would love to hear from you!
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These chairs offer $1 million per year for full professors or $500,000 per year for associate professors, over eight years.
McMaster is seeking many scholars with ambitious research programs that tackle emerging global and national challenges in many disciplines.
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McMaster University is inviting top-tier researchers currently working abroad to join one of the world's leading research institutions through the prestigious Canada Impact+Research Chairs program.
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research.mcmaster.ca/home/support...
Graph showing the top 20 countries with the most journal articles published on the topic of climate change and landscape fire.
New paper out in Science Advances today on A guide to assessing the impacts of climate change on landscape fire. There are thousands of papers on fire and climate change, and this paper discusses how fire, its drivers, and its impacts are modeled.
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
I'm very excited to share the latest paper from the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab. A whole lab effort where we expand our discussion on Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands to discuss how peat depth influences the strength of key feedbacks and peatland resilience. Check it out in Ecohydrology!
Excited to announce that our latest #SurvivalOfTheDeepest paper was just published! Read more about it here ⬇️
We discuss how the vulnerability of shallow peatlands arises from the interactions between regulatory (negative) and destabilizing (positive) ecohydrological feedbacks.
#SurvivalofTheDeepest #Peatlands #PeatPaper
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@sciencewithkyra.bsky.social @gregverkaik.bsky.social @peatbloke.bsky.social
We show that differences in peat properties and vegetation cover between shallow and deep peatlands influence the strength of fast hydrological feedbacks while the slow feedbacks related to vegetation community change and peat decomposition directly impact peatland physical characteristics
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