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The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usual. A legacy of mining means that toxic metals could be carried along plumes of smoke. grist.org/climate/cana... #Wildfire #Smoke #Wildfires #Climate #Air #AQI

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… and some photos of BDB at 25 years old. An incredible #peatland #restoration success story! @gret-perg.bsky.social

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🎉 Today we celebrate 25 yrs since the restoration of the Bois-des-Bel peatland — the first large-scale peatland restoration project in North America. 🌱 A milestone that shaped the future of peatland science. #Peatlands #Restoration #PeatlandsMatter

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Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay! This week @gret-perg.bsky.social celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Bois-des-Bel #peatland #restoration project! Throwback to 2000 and our first eddy covariance measurements on a restored peatland. #BDB25

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Boreal wildfires are, yet again, raging near historical smelting toxic metal pollution sources. The peatlands, forests, and lakes near Flin Flon MB have elevated toxic metals (e.g. Hg, As, Pb) that current wildfires can remobilize to our air, land, and water (similar to tinyurl.com/yv7usr6b). 1/2

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Area burned over 1 million hectares in Canada and increasing. Second only to the 2023 in terms of area burned for this time of year. @ciffc.bsky.social ciffc.ca cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fm3?typ...

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We were happy to tour the 2024 #NobelPeatPrize Laureate, Betty Ehnvall, through our Nobel research sites this week. @nobel-water.bsky.social Wonderful discussions about peatland development, shallow #peatlands, and #wildfire.

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PhD student Greg Verkaik's @gregverkaik.bsky.social research is featured in today's McMaster Brighter World article. #PeatSky #peatlands #wildfire brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/fie...

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Hydrology Paper of the Day @peatofmind.bsky.social @peatbloke.bsky.social on how shallow peatlands are indicative of system thresholds: ecohydrological stress and water availability; climate change and how shallow peatlands indicate future behaviors; and understanding feedbacks and tipping points.

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Peatlands as wildfire refugia. #Peatlands #PeatSky #wildfire @nobel-water.bsky.social

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Field photo: “It’s time to draw a line in the sand umm errr Sphagnum” #Peatlands #PeatSky #wildfire @nobel-water.bsky.social

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New #PeatPaper led by Owen Sutton with @peatbloke.bsky.social and others #peatlands Shallow peatlands as sentinels of climate change

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Peatland hydrology session on Thursday at the #EGU25 for the MAC Ecohydrology Lab. We have four posters and an oral presentation.

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Next up for the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab at #EGU25 is our poster titled: #Peatlands and Climate Change: Survival of the Deepest 16:15-18:00 (Hall X1, X1.14, EGU25-3812) Stop by and tell us what you like (or don't like) about it and we'll give you a limited edition lab logo or "Swagnum" sticker!

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Another MAC Ecohydrology Lab talk coming up on Tuesday! "The Future of Northern Peatlands, From Process to Emissions" session. 10:55–11:05 (Room N1) Dr. Owen Sutton Shallow Peatlands as Sentinels of Climate Change #EGU25 #Peatlands

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🎵 Hello, Vienna calling, hello? 🎵 We kick off our #EGU25 peaty presentations on Monday with two talks on wildfire peat combustion! Greg: Drained peatlands @gregverkaik.bsky.social Paul: Climate change modelling #peatlands #wildfire #ecohydrology

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‪ Vienna Calling! The MAC Ecohydrology Lab are looking forward to the #EGU25 in just over two weeks. We will be presenting our research on #peatlands, #wildfire, and #ecohydrology in several posters and talks. Stop by our posters to talk all things peat.

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Check out this new Georgian Bay Biosphere #StateOfTheBay "Learning from Fire" video featuring Gracie Crafts & @sciencewithkyra.bsky.social! #wildfire #shkode #peatlands @nobel-water.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0sL...

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Check out this @sciencewithkyra.bsky.social video summarizing our research to fast track moss recovery following wildfire. We are using the moss layer transfer technique used to restore peatlands on bedrock that lost all soil during the 2018 Parry Sound 33 wildfire.

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“It has been a happy fact that my university experiences and scientific career have been favoured with some great mentors and colleagues” - W.R. Rouse (Cdn Geographer, 2008) Wayne was a great mentor and colleague to me so it is a true honour to be this year's Rouse Climate Lecturer (March 27)

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Nobel, Ontario home of the #NobelPeatPrize. Winter 2025... How it started (Feb 16) How its going (March 15)

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Earlier this week I cancelled several invited academic talks in the US. No travel to the United States for me until all the tariffs and annexation BS ends. 🇨🇦 🍁 The MAC Ecohydro Lab is instead looking forward to sharing our peatland science at the EGU in 6 weeks with 9 posters and presentations!

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🇨🇦 While I have cancelled all travel to the USA, I am looking forward to attending and presenting at the EGU 🇪🇺 in 8 weeks. I will be giving an invited talk in the #peatland #hydrology session: Quantifying Peatland Ecohydrological Tipping Points to Drought and Wildfire by Thinking Outside the Bog

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🇨🇦 I’m so committed to the recent buy-Canadian-cancel-your-trips-to-the-US brand of Canadian patriotism that my maple leaf shaped maple flavoUred cookie consumption is up 2000% in 2025. 🍁 It also means I have backed out of giving a keynote at a conference that would have been a career highlight. 🇨🇦

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I'm very honoured to be presenting the 5th Annual Rouse Climate Lecture at McMaster (March 27, 3pm, University Club). Wayne had a huge influence on my career. First as my 2nd year climatology prof and then as a colleague and mentor. He passed away last summer so this lecture is bittersweet. 1/3

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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.

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Thrilled to share that the second chapter of my PhD is now published! 🎉 This chapter dives into the critical issue of peatland fires in Southeast Asia by extending our previously developed peatland-specific version of the Fire Weather Index (FWIpeat) to tropical peatlands. 🔥🌱🧪 #peatlands #fire

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❄️ It’s been a very snowy winter in Nobel, Ontario (home of the #NobelPeatPrize) ❄️

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Fitting with #FireScarFriday - we have some good news this week coming out of CSA HQ that the contract has been awarded for the #WildFireSat mission to be designed and built by Spire Global Canada. This is a massive step towards our launch in 2029! 🔥🌲🛰️📡 Read more here: www.canada.ca/en/space-age...

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Pete Whittington, @wetland-ghg.bsky.social, @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social, & I are working on the #peatland #ecohydrology chapter for a forthcoming ecohydrology book. Its been a pleasure writing with such knowledgeable and supportive colleagues. But I'm most proud of us meeting the 6,000 word limit!

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One of my favorite things about #peatlands is their patterning at different scales caused by millennia of interplay between hydrology and peat accumulation - mainly Sphagnum mosses. Spent my Saturday evening looking at satellite images of the Hudson Bay Lowlands - a perfectly reasonable activity…

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Hydrology Paper of the Day @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social @gregverkaik.bsky.social on how the release of Cu, Ni, S and other metals reduces moss species; changes the density, porosity and soil water content; modifies the water table; and transports toxins in Sudbury peatlands.

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Nobel, home of the #NobelPeatPrize and @nobel-water.bsky.social got a little snow in last night's squalls. A morning snowshoe in mid-thigh deep fresh powder is a fun and inspiring way to start a day of writing about #peatlands and #hydrology! #worklifebalance

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New paper: led by Yiyao Li. We use ensemble learning to map both peat depth, and carbon storage at 30m resolution across the Hudson Bay Lowlands. This data will help assess vulnerability of carbon stored in this region to ongoing changes in climate, resource development and land use.

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New peatland paper alert! Very pleased to have our research on the impact of smelter pollution on peat hydrophysical properties published in Hydrological Processes. The paper was published on Christmas Day which was a special present given the challenges we had with this "Covid paper". 1/4

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