Recently retired academic from University of Leeds. Consultant (ecohydrology, peatlands, computer modelling, soil and ground water). Live music, theatre, photography, art galleries, outdoor swimming, cycling.
Andy Baird
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Pleased to be part of the team on this new paper.
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?
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Andy Baird
Our new paper in #hydrologicalprocesses reports the first Ksat measurements from central Congo Basin peatlands, and explores the possibility of pan-tropical pedotransfer functions. A great team effort from the CongoPeat project. Open access and free to all! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Mike Peacock
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We show that saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat) in surficial peats of central Congo Basin is low compared to deeper peat layers elsewhere in the tropics. Low Ksat in Congolese peats may be a res...
A whole month later and this garbage is still online. You would have thought that the authors and MDPI might be keen to quickly set things right. Seemingly not.
Lovely to see our recent paper in Water Resources Research as an Editor's Highlight in Eos:
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Mangroves "soak up vast amounts of planet-warming gases": www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Mangroves are very carbon dense (carbon per unit area) but cover a tiny area globally, and the size of their total carbon store (density x area) is a small fraction of that in peatlands bbcnewsi.bsky.social
Pleased to see this out: 'Assessing the Response of Blanket Peatlands to Climate Change Using the DigiBog Model and Winter's Concept of the “Hydrologic Landscape”'. Available open access here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Peat expansion is tightly coupled to the global climate cycle. As a nature-based solution to climate change, we need to know how they will respond to different climate scenarios.
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📢We're recruiting for an exciting new mountain woodland #PhD on "Mountain birch genetics & recovery in Scotland"! Full funding is guaranteed for this project involving molecular genomics & high-altitude field experiments at #Corrour & Mar Lodge. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Simulations of a blanket peatland continue accumulating carbon until 2100 under all climate scenarios Topographic wetness correlates with peat thickness but does not fully explain accumulation pa...
The authors have informed me this happened because an "AI-assisted tool was used to help organize the reference list".
Convinced? No, me neither.
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
Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#ElanValley peatland restoration survived despite being surrounded by recent fire. Thanks for photo Elan Valley Trust. It shows your impactful work restoring wet peatland habitat as part of #WalesPeatlandAction efforts
Funded by Welsh Government
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Mike Peacock
Hotspots density in restored peatlands reduced significantly by up to 2.6 km−2 compared to matched unrestored peatlands in 2019
Deep wells show greater hotspot reduction and cover a larger area, ...
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...
