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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

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

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...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

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!

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

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…

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Merry Christmas! Annual Xmas Strava Art! #Orienteering

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Holidays from the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab!

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Global Water Futures Observatories is now on BlueSky! Give them a follow. @gwfobservatories.bsky.social I am very appreciative of their support of the NOBEL water observatory that I help operate in the eastern Georgian Bay region of Ontario's boreal shield. @nobel-water.bsky.social

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

🔥 In 2023, wildfires burned a record-breaking 15 million hectares in Canada—more than twice the previous record. Our new paper in Nature Communications explores the drivers behind this catastrophic season. 🌍 [Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 (1/)

submitted 70 days ago • 5 comments

Reflecting on 2024 We: 🌍 Conducted fieldwork across Canada 🌱 Launched the Chair in Ecosystem Restoration 🎓 Celebrated Line Rochefort's honorary doctorate 🧪 Hosted the first Peatland Science Symposium 🌏 Had students participate in internships abroad and defend their theses Excited for 2025! 🎉

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Come and WORK with us - a super seldom opportunity: ONE tenure track scientist/groupleader position & TWO postdocs all on ecohydrological modelling in different landscapes (incl. peatlands) in Berlin, Germany email me if any questions. Check out the different positions here www.igb-berlin.de/en/jobs

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

🕯️🕯️🕯️✨💫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 [email protected] 📸 @burdun.bsky.social

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Having some #AGU2024 FoMo this year but can’t leave the family again. At least our (Drs Ellie Goud Pete Whittington Peter Beckett @florinp.bsky.social & @nbasiliko.bsky.social) research on restoring critical #peatland functions in heavily metal polluted landscapes is still there youtu.be/-smiKnf-WU8

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On behalf of the MAC Ecohydro Lab I'm happy to announce the winner of the 2024 #NobelPeatPrize for top Intl peat paper Congrats to: Ehnvall et al. Topography and time shape mire morphometry and large scale mire distribution patterns in the northern boreal landscape JGR Earth Surface #PeatSky

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Winner of the 2024 #NobelPeatPrize for top peat paper, poster, or presentation from a McMaster early career researcher is our entire lab! Really proud of how this CGU poster came together. Expect a manuscript in the new year. #PeatSky #SurvivaloftheDeepest www.mcmasterecohydrology.ca/survival.html

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

At today's lab meeting we chose the winner of the 2024 #NobelPeatPrize for top International peat paper! Winner announced on Dec 5th #PeatSky Give these MAC Ecohydro Lab members a follow: @sciencewithkyra.bsky.social @gregverkaik.bsky.social @rosannebroyd.bsky.social @alexclark11.bsky.social

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

I’m pleased to announce the winner of our first 2024 Nobel Peat Prize! @peatlandecr.bsky.social wins for top peatland outreach/network organization! I will donate $500 ($1/Gt C stored in northern peatlands) to their PEAT NEEDS fund. Another #NobelPeatPrize winner announced next Thursday.

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

One advantage of living 10 minutes from the @nobel-water.bsky.social wetlands and water observatory is when key eqpt for data logger maintenance has been forgotten by the field crew I can be there quickly. 😂 “Those who know, know”

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🌍🌿 💧 Peatland hydrology: From tropical to subarctic latitudes at EGU25! We welcome studies on hydrological processes in peatlands. Submit your abstract and share your insights! Deadline: 15 January 2025. @michelbechtold.bsky.social @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social #peat #wetland #bog #fen #swamp

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

A non exhaustive list of peatlanders. Join if you see fit. The package contains the Peatland and Wetland list by @scootjd.bsky.social

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

After four thousand and 666 (which seems fitting) days I have closed my twitter account. I’m here for the science and peatofmind. Get it?! 😂

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments

Just presented a preliminary look at the results from the Tracking the Colour of #Peatland project here at Plymouth so thought I'd share them here too #PeatColours

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments