8 weeks to when we award the 2026 Nobel Peat Prize. Do you have a fave peat or #peatland paper this year? @nobel-water.bsky.social

Introducing the Peat Moisture Code for #wildfire! The PMC integrates #peatlands into the next generation of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System.

Greg Verkaik@gregverkaik.bsky.social · last wk.

Excited to share the new daily Peat Moisture Code published in MethodsX! This is a step towards integrating peatlands into the CFFDRS to better represent fire danger in peatlands by accounting for key mechanisms controlling peat moisture and fire potential. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Boggy and foggy! #peatlands Algonquin Provincial Park

Just another day at the (Algonquin) office #peatlands

The MAC Ecohydrology Lab is hosting an international peat fire workshop this week at NOBEL @nobel-water.bsky.social. Ironically, several of Belgium's peat fire experts will be attending while Belgium experiences its largest wildfire on record (in the High Fens peatland). @jmortelmans.bsky.social

This podcast with Canada’s top wildfire expert @mikeflannigan.bsky.social on Canadian wildfires is an absolute must listen! “We should be more proactive” “having an early warning system -- we do it for hurricanes. Why don't we do it for fire?” #wildfire

Mike Flannigan@mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out the CBC front burner podcast where I get to talk about fire for over 20 minutes. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

My latest on the #wildfires burning across the Northern Hemisphere: time.com/article/2026... via TIME

What Happens When the World is on Fire

"From America to Algeria, dangerous blazes are occurring around the world, giving us a glimpse into an age ablaze," writes John Valliant.

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A great @gwfobservatories.bsky.social tour of the NOBEL today!

Our 2026 fire season was quiet, and just like the rapid transition from winter to summer (bypassing spring) in much Canada, our fire season went from quiet to crazy full on. Rapid increase in area burned (and smoke) from fires in the NWT and QC and more recently ON. See hot spot graph below

At #biogeomon a collaegue called our 2015 hydrological feedbacks paper a peatlands classic. So that got me thinking what dozen or so papers would be on the 'must read' for #peatland researchers. I'll start with one of my faves. @andybairdj.bsky.social Belyea and Baird, 2006 (Ecol. Mongr.)

A third of a century ago I did my PhD research at SLU in Umeå on the carbon balance of a poor fen. So there was lots of emotions attending #biogeomon last week for my visit first to SLU Forest Sciences since 1994. Highlight of the week was visiting #KrycklanCatchment for the first time #peatlands

Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay!

Earlier this week I gave a seminar on #peatland #wildfire and led a workshop on peatland #ecohydrology at the SLU Dept. of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment in Uppsala. Six! #NobelPeatPrize laureates (incl the legendary Håkan Rydin) attended. We had great peaty discussions and I learned so much.

Very excited to announce that my first PhD research paper is out! 🎉 We think shallow #peatlands represent #ClimateChange "sentinels" for deeper peats, but we don't know much about their #evapotranspiration (ET) dynamics 🧵 doi.org/10.1002/hyp.70558 @nobel-water.bsky.social #PeatPaper #OpenAccess

Persistent Evapotranspiration in a Shallow Boreal Shield Peatland Despite Summer Drought: Implications for Ecohydrological Resilience

We examine energy balance and evapotranspiration dynamics in a shallow peatland as an analogue for projected climate change impacts in deeper peatlands. Across nine growing seasons, we document simil...

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Hey #EGU26! Got Peat? The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab has a talk and poster in the HS10.3 Peatland hydrology session on Friday. #PeatSky #peatlands #ecohydrology #resilience #earlywarningsignals Join us for a discussion on early warning signals in peatland ecosystems at poster A.64

I’m visiting the SLU Dept. of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment in Uppsala today and saw this on a bookshelf. The dept is home to our 2024 and 2025 #NobelPeatPrize laureates. #peatland

That feeling when your nerdy ecohydrology knowledge of both Newtonian mechanics and peatland vegetation combine to solve the Saturday NYT connections puzzle in record time 🤓

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...

Celebrating Line Rochefort, named to the 2026 Women Changemakers in the World of Wetlands At 16, she taught herself botany after being excluded from science camps for boys only. Today, she’s a global pioneer in #peatland #restoration and continues to champion women in science. shorturl.at/n67Nb

Line Rochefort, Canada | The Convention on Wetlands

Biography At 16, Dr Rochefort wanted to be a biologist. But it was 1977 – the natural sciences camps were boys-only. That did not stop her. She took the plant identification guide that one camper gave...

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Make moss, not war! 💚

New paper! We took our peatland moss expertise and methods and applied it to fill and spill water storage dynamics to examine the hydrological controls on rock barrens moss and lichen mat growth. Mat NPP increases with increasing bedrock depression storage. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨Funded #PhD opp🚨 in my lab, co supervised by Vincent Maire at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Linking above-and belowground plant #phenology to carbon cycling in #peatlands You can see full advert (in english/french) here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie... Please share!

🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨 Disturbance Impacts on swamp and forested peatlands in southern Québec This project will quantify how disturbances affect carbon cycling and hydrology in swamp and forested peatlands of southern Québec More info here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...

New paper led by Rachel Fallas & Chantel Markle with 6 winters of @nobel-water.bsky.social data Micrometeorological variability and climate change affect snake overwintering habitat resilience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Rattlesnakes overwinter in east Georgian Bay #peatland hummocks

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay! Photo: “After the Squalls” (Peatland 234 at the NOBEL Water and Carbon Observatory @nobel-water.bsky.social) www.worldwetlandsday.org

In 2010 the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab started research in Nobel @nobel-water.bsky.social and every year since have awarded the #NobelPeatPrize for the top #peatland paper of the year. * * While “unpresidented”, in case he tries, the #NobelPeatPrize rules are clear. The award is non transferable.

Fun day at the annual McMaster Ecohydrology Lab "Peat Retreat" at @nobel-water.bsky.social #peatlands #ecohydrology

A member of the public took a photo of the #peatland at Castell Nos in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 every Sunday this year and even sent me this video he made! I really love how people have embraced #PeatColours across the world

Annual Christmas GPS map art with Emma! Santa Gnome / Tomtenisse

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