New funded PhD opportunity on large-scale export of aquatic carbon from peatlands: yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/lar...
Join an amazing group of peatland researchers at the University of Leeds. Project supervised by me, Paul Morris, Jiren Xu (Glasgow), Taylor Maavara (Cary).
Deadline 7 January 2026
Joseph Holden
New fully-funded PhD project working on flooding, climate change, catastrophe modelling and the re-insurance industry: unrisk-cdt.ac.uk/projects/cli... Work with @floodre.bsky.social Erica Thompson and I.
Fab work by our PhD student Resti Salmayenti who has published her first thesis paper in Environmental Research Letters showing how drainage and land cover interact to affect fire occurrence in Indonesian peatlands. Our paper is open access here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Third paper from Qiuyu Zhu's PhD now out. Qiuyu coupled Spatially Distributed TOPMODEL to a hydrodynamic model to see how different NFM techniques interact. This allows us to study flood effects at larger catchment scales. Free access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Another great paper from Resti Salmayenti's PhD now out showing that peatland restoration & conservation management reduces tropical peatland fires (esp. during stronger El Nino). Free access here:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... @andybairdj.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social
Final paper out from Josiah Judson's PhD. Trees on shallow gradients or the riparian zone contribute to flood management without substantially impacting land available for productive agriculture. Free access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Read our article published in Nature Water about what has made our Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme @yorkshireicasp.bsky.social such a success. Free access here: rdcu.be/eHWAM @springernature.com @researchleeds.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social
Our new free to access paper from Josiah Judson's PhD showing how alley width and slope position of agroforestry trees in the UK influence soil functioning www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @pippachapmn.bsky.social @researchleeds.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social
We shouldn't say peatlands act as sponges...but they can slow flow and dampen droughts. Our new paper led by Kirsten Lees onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Joseph Holden
First paper now out from Rossana Escanilla-Minchel's PhD - showing land cover change impacts on riverflow in central Chile during different ENSO phases. Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @geomorphmark.bsky.social @water.leeds.ac.uk environment.leeds.ac.uk/geography/pg...
Joseph Holden
Joseph Holden
Peatlands are wetland environments in which saturated, anoxic soil conditions cause carbon-rich plant detritus – peat – to accumulate over thousands of years. Peatlands are thought to store approximat...
