Somewhat belatedly, huge congratulations to all our graduates this summer, including Dr. Dan Colson! @danielcolson.bsky.social
Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...
For over 15 years the McMaster Ecohydro Lab has awarded the #NobelPeatPrize to the authors of the best peatland or peat paper of the year.
It’s that time of year again where we review papers and finalize a list of nominees.
Do you have a fave paper for 2025 you would like us to consider?
Holly and Andy using a Russian-pattern corer to take a deep peat sample from Lewis’s northern plateau.
20 years ago, almost to the day, I started my PhD in London, and with it my journey into science. Today I was appointed Professor of Biogeoscience by the UnIversity of Leeds. Feeling humble, grateful, exhausted, etc.
Early results from our cutting-edge PIPES project at Queen's University Belfast featured on BBC Northern Ireland this morning.
Toxic metals found in UK peatlands could pose health risk www.bbc.com/news/article...
Our new paper in QSR, led by Dr. Donna Hawthorne, explores the various successional pathways that the huge peat swamp forests of the central Congo Basin have taken during the late Quaternary. Open access link available until 21 Nov eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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/...
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