Academic conducting research into peatlands, wetlands, climate, hydrology, biogeography. No longer active on X/twitter. Connect with me on Bluesky!
Leeds, UK
Joined October 2013
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Our new paper, led by @baird_andy and out now in
@HydroProcesses, shows the importance of measuring peat specific yield (Sy) from intact peat cores, rather than depth-interval "pucks", which may underestimate Sy. Open access and free to all.
New #PeatPaper 'The effect of wetting history, botanical composition and depth on the specific yield of two common types of bog peat' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… w/ @alicemmilner @peatbloke @sophie0682 #PeatTwitter
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Kicking off the #PeatMetal and Restoring Industrially Impacted Peatlands International Workshops with a tour of our @NOBEL_Water natural and unburned peatland sites. Looking forward to great discussions on peatland hydrology, metal biogeochemistry, and restoration!
#PeatTwitter
#peat Twitter does anyone have an electronic copy of...
Mathur SP & Famham RS (1985) Geochemistry of humic substances in natural and cultivated peatlands. In Aiken GR, McKnight DM, Wershaw RL & MacCarthy P (eds) Humic Substances in Soil, Sediments and Water, 53-86
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Check our our exciting new climate change journal "Critical Insights in Climate Change". Happy to answer any questions you have! tandfonline.com/journals/tcl…
@WeAreTandF #climate #environment Please retweet!
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Some boreal peatlands are losing their characteristic pools – a concern for their unique ecosystems.
@rbpmleeds and @uppsalauni researchers studied the long-term changes of the pools at Hammarmossen to understand why it's happening.
Find out more:
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news…
ALT Drone photography of Hammarmossen raised bog, Sweden, where researchers found that open water pools have been rapidly shrinking and disappearing over the last six decades, overgrown by mats of Sphagnum moss and sedges.
Our recent study in Ecosystems by PhD student @daniel_colson, examining rapidly shrinking pool area on a patterned boreal peatland, has been summarised on the @EnvLeeds news feed environment.leeds.ac.uk/news…
@GeomorphMark @GGranath @DuncanQuincey @SoGLeeds @rbpmleeds
Here's the original journal article from December, open access and free to all link.springer.com/article/10…
New paper by PhD student @daniel_colson out now in Ecosystems uses aerial imagery to track changes at Hammarmossen patterned raised bog, Sweden. Over 61 years this iconic site lost more than a quarter of its pool area, overgrown by Sphag & sedges. Open access and free to all 1/4
Pleased to announce our new #PeatPaper ⬇️
Six Decades of Changes in Pool Characteristics on a Concentric-Patterned Raised Bog (Colson et al., 2023)
link.springer.com/article/10…
Many thanks to my co-authors @peatbloke @GeomorphMark @DuncanQuincey Håkan Rydin and @GGranath
Worryingly, this isn't an isolated observation. Other recent studies in boreal and temperate peatlands have shown similar losses of open water, with colonisation of pools, and acceleration of fen-bog transitions, possibly driven by warming climates 3/4
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1/2 A few months into my new role at @Forest_Research and as part of @OptFORESTS we've collected and sown a Scottish provenance of sessile oak. This is first step towards establishing next-generation multi-species common gardens across Europe 🌲🌳🧬
BSc Geography students from @SoGLeeds learning about the forests, rivers, hills and soils of the Lake District on our first-year Blencathra trip (also enjoying great weather).
(ANOTHER) FULLY FUNDED PHD OPPORTUNITY
Large-scale Export of Aquatic Carbon from Peatlands. Fully funded by NERC Panorama DTP here at @SoGLeeds, now open to applications. Contact me for more details.
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