Excited to be in Halifax for this year's annual @cgu-ugc.bsky.social meeting.
It's been a busy May so far with fieldwork, so what have we been up to?
🧵Jack Mintz has a new piece in the Financial Post arguing that men in Canada are being discriminated against through federal research funding allocation and Canada Research Chair hiring quotas.
@pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I found this is simply misinformation.
Shout out to Melanie Bird and Akshara Withanage who has also been working hard in Peace River, AB to set up studies on well-pad restoration and agricultural impacts to peatland carbon cycling.
Excited to catch up the Canadian geophysical community this week and then back to the field!
Last but not least I headed to Bois-des-Bel near Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec to help set up sampling for Yimeng Wang's PhD study. She aims to understand the balance between tree and moss productivity in a restored bog: baseline data for a tree removal study with @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social
Took some time in between to visit one of our southern Ontario swamp sites. @smilingmegs.bsky.social has been monitoring C stocks and fluxes here for their PhD research
This summer, Kaitlin Andres will build of Meg's work to collect data for an honours thesis to better characterize tree stem CH4 fluxes - more trees, more heights on the stem, more upscaling...
Next I was off to Fort McMurray, AB where I'm working with Scott Ketcheson and Greg McDermid to better understand the effect of in situ oil sands development on peatland function.
Our work this summer is led by research assistant Zhikang Zhu to measure carbon emissions from stockpiled peat
And, helped Noah set up open-top chambers for a warming experiment to explore how climate change may affect bog, fen and restored fen carbon cycling.
Started late April in Manitoba for work on fen restoration. With PhD student Noah Boss and incoming MSc student Hanna Gross, working with Ian Strachan to get the eddy covariance towers back up and running to monitor CO2 and CH4 exchange on restored and natural fen sites.