Not to be outdone, Tracking the Colour of Peatlands (#PeatColours) is now in its third year. We've had over 1000 photos so far this year. I love seeing people engage with peatlands, sharing their photos and helping us understand their dynamics through the dataset that is being produced!

Since launching 'Suivre la couleur des milieux humides au Québec' in May '26 we've already received 525 photos from citizen scientists across our first 9 sites! Not only is this a fun project to help understand seasonal change in wetlands, but it helps raise awareness of these important ecosystems!

Left the peatlands behind this week and got to work in this beautiful freshwater marsh! My new masters student Maya will be measuring GHG fluxes using our new stackable chambers as part of the CARBONIQUE project Lots of fieldwork this summer (which always bring a little stress) but a lot of fun!

Attention #ECR 📣 Two weeks left to apply for this season’s #PeatNeeds funding!💰 #peatlands #wetlands #studentlife #phdlife

Peatland ECR Action Team@peatlandecr.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 #PeatNeeds is back for July/August 2026! Microfunding of 125 CAD$ for one #ECR working on a wet-/peatland project. Global, no age limit. Apply by July 31; notifications by Aug 31. Previous #PEATNeeds awardees aren’t eligible. Apply ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PeatNeeds #PeatECR #Peatlands

One month left to apply for the summer round it @peatlandecr.bsky.social 2026 #PeatNeeds micro grants. It's a really easy application process, so go check it out if you are in need of a small financial boost as summer fieldwork kicks off.

Peatland ECR Action Team@peatlandecr.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 #PeatNeeds is back for July/August 2026! Microfunding of 125 CAD$ for one #ECR working on a wet-/peatland project. Global, no age limit. Apply by July 31; notifications by Aug 31. Previous #PEATNeeds awardees aren’t eligible. Apply ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PeatNeeds #PeatECR #Peatlands

Birches drain the #bog? @carterarla.bsky.social shows in our recent paper that this might be a simplification as birches might rather be an indicator of disturbed hydrological conditions than its cause. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/eco.... @marenecohydro.bsky.social @bioclimatology.bsky.social

Excited to start expanding our peatland phenology work with our new toy = A ChromoMapper from PyrOptik (an affordable hyperspectral imaging system: 400 - 950nm) Can’t wait to take it for a spin out on our sites.

🎙️ Podcast-Finale von „Moorvielfalt“: Alarm aus dem Moor – Was die Daten sagen & warum Handeln jetzt zählt Stephan Glatzel & ich (Geoökologie @univie.ac.at ) sprechen über die Veränderungen von Österreichs Mooren in den letzten 35 Jahren⤵️ moorvielfalt.univie.ac.at/podcast/epis... #peatland #podcast

Universität Wien / University of Vienna@univie.ac.at · 4mo ago

Heute ist #EarthDay! 🌍Unsere Hörempfehlung zum Thema: Die neue #Podcast -Reihe "Moorvielfalt". 🎧 Diese verbindet Forschung, Geschichte und die Praxis rund um den Lebensraum Moor. 🔍 Episode 1 zeigt die vielfältigen Funktionen von Mooren auf – als Kohlenstoff-Speicher, Wasserrückhalt und Kühlinsel. 💧⤵️

Happy World Peatlands Day!! #peatECR #Wetlands

Happy World Peatlands Day ! Another opportunity to promote the #PeatColours project. It’s been such a brilliant way to engage with the public on the importance of these beautiful landscapes peatcolours.github.io/tracking.html #worldpeatlandsday

Proud to co-lead the CARCLIQUE Quebec Research Chair with Michelle Garneau, advancing research on wetlands, carbon & nature-based climate solutions. Huge thanks to our MELCCFP partners and Léonie, our research coordinator! Photos from last Thursday’s launch! carclique.uqam.ca

The first in a webinar series cohosted by the International Mire Conservation group and us at PeatECR was held on 12 May 2026. See the recording of this thought-provoking talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTop...

Landscape ecological research into peatlands in South Africa & Lesotho (12 May 2026)

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Episode 2 unseres Podcasts Moorvielfalt ist da: Zeitspuren im Moor - Landschaften voller Geschichten. Wir reisen in die Vergangenheit nasser Moor-Landschaften: Wie sind sie entstanden, wie wurden sie genutzt? 🎧 Hört rein: moorvielfalt.univie.ac.at/podcast/epis... #peatland

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna@univie.ac.at · 4mo ago

Heute ist #EarthDay! 🌍Unsere Hörempfehlung zum Thema: Die neue #Podcast -Reihe "Moorvielfalt". 🎧 Diese verbindet Forschung, Geschichte und die Praxis rund um den Lebensraum Moor. 🔍 Episode 1 zeigt die vielfältigen Funktionen von Mooren auf – als Kohlenstoff-Speicher, Wasserrückhalt und Kühlinsel. 💧⤵️

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

2 more sites (bog and a fen) instrumented for our new project yesterday!

Very happy I got to present our project CARBONIQUE at #EGU26 today. #PeatSky #wetlands #fluxnet #Quebec 🇨🇦

☀️ #EGU26 starts TODAY and ICOS is in Vienna all week! We have sessions organised by ICOS community and project partners on urban greenhouse gases, forest carbon, flux networks and more. Updated list of ICOS contributions have been highlighted here 👉 icos-cp.eu/news-and-events/events/icos-egu26

ICOS at EGU26

The EGU General Assembly 3-8 May 2026 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.

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Looking forward to the peaty #EGU starting tomorrow with our session (oral: 8:30 pm, posters in the afternoon). Due to an unfortunate overlap with „BG8.11: Peatland mapping,…“, we propose a common „lunch poster session“ to enable more interaction. Bring some🥪🍎🥤and join us in hall X1! #EGU26

ThünenPeat@thuenenpeat.bsky.social · 9mo ago

#EGU has become a great event for peatlanders. If you work on #paludiculture, restoration or managed peatlands, our session at #EGU26 might be the one for you: 👉 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio... @tannebergerf.bsky.social, Łukasz Kozub, Hanna Silvennoinen, Sue Page @egubg.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...

Very excited to be working in this beautiful marsh site this summer (photo from last year from @knowyouronion.bsky.social) with a new masters student joining my group!

Google suggests the Congo is the world's largest #peatland. This is wrong! For details of the world’s largest peatland complexes, & as a ref for anyone wanting to avoid error-ridden AI search tools, I have manually searched the available literature. See Peatpedia for the results: lnkd.in/gTi32rGX

New in AGU Advances: a community vision for a sustained, actionable greenhouse gas observing system. We highlight how tighter integration of top-down and bottom-up approaches can sharpen attribution and bring carbon information closer to management scales. doi.org/10.1029/2025... #GHG #Carbon

Our whole @carbonique.bsky.social project team got spoilt by Santa this year 😅

Dr Scott J. Davidson@wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 8mo ago

Christmas came early - a shiny new toy! @li-corenv.bsky.social

Christmas came early - a shiny new toy! @li-corenv.bsky.social

2025 #NobelPeatPrize (Outreach) Peat Colours! The “Tracking the Colours of Peatlands” outreach and citizen science initiative explores and communicates peatland science through peat pics. Congrats @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com The #NobelPeatPrize (McMaster) will be announced Dec 10th.

This is another flux tower we installed this spring/summer for the @carbonique.bsky.social project. This time the tower was installed on a floating platform in a restored marsh near Baie-du-Febvre. Thank you to my colleague Léonie @cpaleolab.bsky.social for putting together this video 💚

C-Paleo Lab@cpaleolab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Dans le cadre du projet CARBONIQUE et en collaboration avec le EcoFlux Lab de la professeure Sara Knox à l'université McGill, une tour à covariance des turbulences a été installé dans un marais aménagé par Canards Illimités. Voici la vidéo de l'installation d'avril 2025 ☀️🚜🦆🌱 youtu.be/z37eCc8C8bw

L'année 2025 a permis le déploiement du réseau de tours micrométéorologiques du programme de recherche Carbonique. - Marais transformé en champ agricole (2024) - Tourbière ouverte et tourbière boisée, Lac-à-La-Tortue - Marais aménagé et marais littoral naturel, rive sud du Lac Saint-Pierre ⚡❄️ 🌧️☀️

What a fun day in the field scouting a new site for our research project 💚

Dr Scott J. Davidson@wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 8mo ago

A winter wonderland today! Some fieldwork in the snow is always fun! @carbonique.bsky.social @knowyouronion.bsky.social @cpaleolab.bsky.social

So excited #PEATcalendar is back for 2026! 🎉 Look at all the animals and critters you can find in a peatland 🐻🐍🦆🦡🕸️ The sea urchin might be a bit surprising? Get a calendar to learn how it ended up in a peatland. Thanks to everyone who contributed photos for the calendar! #PeatECR #PeatSky

Peatland ECR Action Team@peatlandecr.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Voilá! 🎉 #PeatECR (peatecr.com) is excited to announce that the #2026PeatECRCalendar is officially ready! This year’s calendar showcases 12 stunning peatland wild life photographs contributed by peatland researchers.