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Ricardo is crouching next to a tussock, smiling at the camera, and is wearing a grey ball cap, black-framed glasses, grey long-sleeved top and blue trousers. There is more tussock vegetation behind Ricardo going up a hillside. Some mist hangs in the air.
The final recipient of our May #PeatNeeds is Ricardo Jaramillo. Ricardo’s research focuses on restoration of tropical mountain peatlands in Ecuador, and working with Indigenous communities in the Andes. 1/2
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Johannes is standing under a blue umbrella on a boardwalk in a peatland, wearing black-framed glasses, a white polo shirt, bright blue and yellow board shorts, and brown sandals. Johannes is looking at the camera and is holding the umbrella and a folding ruler. The boardwalk is surrounded by cottongrass and a few dipwells. In the background there are trees and blue sky with some clouds.
The next recipient of our May #PeatNeeds is Johannes Cunow (@jcunow.bsky.social). Johannes is investigating the influence of snowcover changes and reindeer grazing on when and where roots grow in northern ecosystems. 1/3
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A headshot of Victor, wearing a navy winter coat with fur-lined hood and smiling at the camera. The sky is overcast. In the background there are orange-brown larches and evergreen trees.
The first recipient of our May #PeatNeeds is Victor Lecegui, who is studying the ecological drivers that affect microeukaryote communities in peatlands across the Iberian Peninsula. Victor will use the microgrant to buy a pair of waterproof boots and a hand lens for surveying vegetation plots.
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Picture of a LinkedIn profile page of the Peatland ECR Action Team, featuring a panorama view of an open wetland with cotton grass and low sedge vegetation, as well as a boardwalk leading through. A mountain range is seen in the far background.
🔎 Find and follow us on LinkedIn too now and get updates on #PeatNeeds, #PeatCalendar, #PeatPublications and other #PeatECR resources and services.
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A photo of a group of people walking through a peatland on a sunny day. There are trees and blue sky in the background. Photo credit to Meike Lemmer. Overlain on the photo is a banner reading Peat Needs 2025 in March, April, and May. In the foreground, also overlain on the photo, there is a cartoon backpack, pair of rubber boots, microscope, and the Peatland ECR Action Team (PEAT) logo.
🚨 #PeatECR don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants!
🗓️ Just less than a week left to apply for the final round of funding. Send us your wish list, let us know how we can support you! 🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧
ℹ️ More info on requirements and conditions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
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Vanessa is smiling at the camera taking a selfie, wearing black-framed glasses and is wrapped up in a khaki-green wooly hat, tartan scarf, and grey-brown coat. Vanessa is standing on the edge of a frozen lake covered in snow. In the background there are trees around the edge of the lake.
The final recipient for our April round of #PeatNeeds is Vanessa Götz. Vanessa investigates how plant roots (e.g. Eriophorum vaginatum) interact with thawing permafrost soils in the Alaskan moist acidic tussock tundra and how these interactions influence carbon cycling. 1/2
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Laura measures dissolved and ebullitive gases in rewetted peatlands in the UK and Sweden, and is also radiocarbon dating these gases. The #PeatNeeds microgrant will go towards field kit to wear during a field campaign this summer. 2/2
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Laura, wearing a black ball cap, light blue long-sleeved top, black trousers, and hiking boots, is standing on a boardwalk in a peatland and smiling at the camera. There are trees in the background. Behind Laura is a pool, and to the left are a couple of floating chambers stacked up which are used to measure greenhouse gas fluxes from peatland waterbodies.
The second recipient for the April round of #PeatNeeds is Laura Baugh (laurabaugh94.bsky.social). Laura is interested in GHG fluxes from waterbodies in rewetted peatlands, with a specific focus on methane. 1/2
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Carla, wearing a grey rain coat, black rain pants, boots, and a turquoise scarf and a big smile, is standing on a wooden frame supporting an eddy covariance tower in a peatland. The EC tower is surrounded by tussock vegetation in the foreground. In the background there are trees and open water.
The first recipient of our April #PeatNeeds is Carla Welpelo (@carterarla.bsky.social). Carla investigates the effects of birch encroachment on carbon and water cycling in a rewetted peatland following peat extraction. 1/2
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Sebestian wearing a black jacket takes a selfie on an eddy covariance tower above the forest canopy, with various weather or environmental monitoring instruments around him. In the background, there is a vast expanse of dense green forest under a partly cloudy sky.
The third recipient of our March #PeatNeeds microgrants is Sebestian Kalang William from the University of Tartu. He is working on measuring GHG fluxes in tropical peat swamp forests and land use change. 1/2
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A photo of a group of people walking through a peatland on a sunny day. There are trees and blue sky in the background. Overlain on the photo is a banner reading Peat Needs 2025 in March, April, and May. In the foreground, also overlain on the photo, there is a cartoon backpack, pair of rubber boots, microscope, the Peatland ECR Action Team (PEAT) logo, and photo credit to Meike Lemmer.
🚨 Sorry #PeatECR the link shared yesterday for 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants was broken.
🗓️ Applications for the second round of funding close Friday April 4. Send us your wish list, let us know how we can support you! 🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧
ℹ️ More information on requirements here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
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Sorry folks, the link for #PeatNeeds was broken in the above post. Please find more information, or to apply see here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
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A photo of a group of people walking through a peatland on a sunny day. There are trees and blue sky in the background. Photo credit to Meike Lemmer. Overlain on the photo is a banner reading Peat Needs 2025 in March, April, and May. In the foreground, also overlain on the photo, there is a cartoon backpack, pair of rubber boots, microscope, and the Peatland ECR Action Team (PEAT) logo.
🚨 #PeatECR don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants!
🗓️ Applications for the next next round of funding close Friday April 4. Send us your wish list, let us know how we can support you! 🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧
ℹ️ More info on requirements and conditions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
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Thanks to @peatlandecr.bsky.social for their #PeatNeeds support to @dylanoliver58.bsky.social. It’s a great microgrant scheme for researchers on a tight budget! @wetwoodlands.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
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She is also interested in understanding small wetlands, which are often overlooked despite their crucial role in biodiversity. Laura will use #PeatNeeds microgrant to cover essential needs in order to focus entirely on thesis writing.
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The next recipient of our March #PeatNeeds microgrants is Laura Catalina Riaño Peña. She is working on ecological restoration of pools in ombrotrophic and minerotrophic peatlands in Canada.
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The first recipient of our March #PeatNeeds microgrants is Dylan Oliver. He is part of the wet woodlands research network (@wetwoodlands.bsky.social) where scientists and stakeholders are interested in nature-based solutions for climate change. 1/2
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A photo of a group of people walking through a peatland on a sunny day. There are trees and blue sky in the background. Photo credit to Meike Lemmer. Overlain on the photo is a banner reading Peat Needs 2025 in March, April, and May. In the foreground, also overlain on the photo, there is a cartoon backpack, pair of rubber boots, microscope, and the Peatland ECR Action Team (PEAT) logo.
🚨 #PeatECR don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants!
🗓️ Applications for the first round of funding closes Friday March 7. Send us your wish list, before you head off into the field! 🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧
ℹ️ More info on requirements and conditions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
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🚨 #PeatECR don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants!
🗓️ Just over a week left to apply for funding in March.
Send us your wish list, before you head off into the field!
🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧
ℹ️ More info on requirements and conditions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
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A photo of a group of people walking through a peatland on a sunny day. There are trees and blue sky in the background. Photo credit to Meike Lemmer. Overlain on the photo is a banner reading Peat Needs 2025 in March, April, and May. In the foreground, also overlain on the photo, there is a cartoon backpack, pair of rubber boots, microscope, the Peatland ECR Action Team (PEAT) logo.
🚨 #PeatECR don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants!
🗓️ Three weeks left to apply for funding in March.
Send us your wish list, before you head off into the field!
🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧
ℹ️ More info on requirements and conditions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
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#PeatNeeds is back! Need a little money to help support your research? Something not covered by your scholarship or project, but you still need it? 🥾🧪🔬 Check out our website to read about all the cool projects we've supported in the past!
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A huge thank you to @peatofmind.bsky.social, @unpeatable.bsky.social, and @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social for their very generous donations, enabling us to offer #PeatNeeds microgrants for #PeatECR again this year
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A photo of a group of people walking through a peatland on a sunny day. There are trees and blue sky in the background. Overlain on the photo is a banner reading Peat Needs 2025 in March, April, and May. In the foreground, also overlain on the photo, there is a cartoon backpack, pair of rubber boots, microscope, the Peatland ECR Action Team (PEAT) logo, and photo credit to Meike Lemmer.
Happy World Wetlands Day! And what a better way to celebrate, than to announce that #PeatNeeds is back! Applications are now open for $100 CAD microgrants. #PeatECR (within 7 years of terminal degree) are eligible for funding. For more information or to apply see docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
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Boardwalk through a Sphagnum-farming field in the Ahlenmoor, Germany (Photo: Meike Lemmer)
🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️⭐️ Merry 4th Advent-week, cherished #peatland people!
“Alas! How dreary would be the world if there was no #PeatECR! There would be no #PeatNeeds then, no #PeatWrites, no #PeatCalendar to make tolerable this existence.”
Join the team and keep the support active! ☃️
📷: @meikelemmer.bsky.social
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Boardwalk through a treeless open, boreal bog in Finland in Patvinsuo national parc. Photo: Iuliia Burdun.
🕯️🕯️🕯️✨💫Holly jolly third Advent-week dear #PeatPeople!
What’s on your Christmas list?
🎅🤶We’re asking Santa this year to bring new members who will continue our cause, support the #peat community and make #PeatECR eyes shine over #PeatNeeds micro-grants🤩💰
ℹ️ PeatECR@gmail.com
📸 @burdun.bsky.social
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Boardwalk through spruces and cottongras in Estonian Luhasoo peatland (Photo: Iuliia Burdun)
🕯️🎄Happy first Advent-week to all #PeatECR and peatland folks!
Did you send your #peatland equipment wish list to Santa yet? 🎅🤶
Look out for new #PeatNeeds offers coming up early next year, to complete your field preparations!
Merry Christmas season!
📷: @burdun.bsky.social
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Thank you so much Bjorn, we really appreciate your support 🙏
Due to time constraints we were not able to work on a #PeatCalendar 📅 this year and your donation will help with bringing back #PeatNeeds 💵 in 2025 🎉
#PeatECR #PeatSky #Peatlands
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Dana is crouching in a peatland next to a hummock and in front of a pool. Dana is wearing a yellow raincoat, black rain pants, and is smiling at the camera. In the background there are a couple of mountains with a dusting of snow.
The final recipient for our summer 2024 #PeatNeeds microgrants is Dana Druka. Dana’s research focuses on molecular techniques to assess peatland function, particularly relating to peat formation and decomposition. 1/3
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Kamil is in a forested peatland in front of a boardwalk, wearing blue t-shirt and straw hat.
The next recipient of our August #PeatNeeds microgrants is Kamil Sardar. Kamil’s research focuses on quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands in the Hemiboreal region of northern Europe. 1/2
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