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Our FMA Area is 55% wetland - that's a lot of wetland and responsibility! I'm happy to share that I've joined @AlbertaPacific as a wetland ecologist!
Wetlands play a vital role in the structure and function of our forests. @AlbertaPacific collaborates with various teams and partners to better understand, restore, protect, and minimize potential wetland disturbance. Learn more: bit.ly/2YQNdoF #WorldWetlandsDay2022
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My new favourite climate graphic
From Jane Morton @SafeClimate's excellent free booklet 'Don't Mention the Emergency?'
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Wildfire smoke is stretching from Illinois to Italy. Hundreds of wildfires in Canada have already scorched twice as much land as what typically burns in an entire season, according to the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System. Get the view from space: bit.ly/3NTlQV6
ALT A satellite image taken from NASA’s Aqua satellite on June 28, 2023. In the upper part of the image, a cluster of wildfires can be seen in Quebec, Canada. Plumes of thick, tan smoke are blowing southwest from the fires. The location of fires is marked with orange dots, but note that the orange dots are not literally flames, but are hotspots as detected by satellites. Smoke is visible as hazy grey areas down the middle of the image — over Toronto, Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and as far south as Tennessee.
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2023 now is in first place for area burned in BC since 1950. Surprisingly, most of the fire season is ahead of us and we have already passed the recent record-breaking years of 2017 and 2018. wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc…
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This amazing figure from yesterday's #IPCC report shows the potential of different approaches to mitigate climate change
It exposes two common misconceptions about 'natural climate solutions'
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Mosses make up most of the diversity in northern regions and often more than 50% of ecosystem productivity and carbon uptake from the atmosphere. Tiny superheroes. Where are my moss lovers?
ALT Image of Polytrichum moss sporophytes with some white lichen scattered underneath.
ALT Image of red Sphagnum stems with a few yellow to greenish mosses in the stand.
This is important. #voteforsphagnum
THE FINAL OF THE #WetlandCup IS HERE! Who wins? BEAVER WETLANDS vs. SPHAGNUM MOSS. You decide! Vote for your winner below and make sure to give it a RT so we can get as many votes as possible!
52%Beaver wetlands
48%Sphagnum moss
1,138 votes • Final results Courtney Miller retweeted
Round 30 of the #WetlandCup is sphagnum moss vs. patterned fen! Who do you want to see in the final? Vote below!
72%Sphagnum moss
28%Patterned fen
224 votes • Final results Courtney Miller retweeted
Round 29 of the #WetlandCup is raised bog vs. beaver wetland! Who will you send through to the FINAL?! Please give it a RT so we can get as many votes as possible
41%Raised bog
59%Beaver wetland
373 votes • Final results Courtney Miller retweeted
3) Peat holds a lot of water, protecting not only peatlands but ENTIRE landscapes from drought.
4) While peat can burn, it protects ecosystems from severe burning. More peat = good 🔥
5) Peat promotes diversity & strange critters that make our world beautiful & interesting. 2/2
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5 reasons why peat is powerful:
1) Peat is 50% carbon. That C was taken out of the atmosphere by plants and soils and put into ecological lockdown. Let's keep it there.
2) Peat archives everything from past climate to archeological records. Peat = information we need. 1/
ALT Photograph of a brown peat core sitting inside a plastic shell with a tape measure below to mark depth. There are different colored brown patterns in the peat marking vegetation changes with depth.
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With 66% of the vote - sphagnum moss has taken the win #WetlandCup
Round 27 of the #WetlandCup is blanket bog vs. sphagnum moss - who wins? You decide! Vote below and send your favourite to the next round.
34%Blanket bog
66%Sphagnum moss
223 votes • Final results
The importance of soil and ecohydrology in restoring C dynamics with the @wetland_GHG @SJ_Ketcheson teams for the #BERAworkshop2022 @BeraProject
Promote return to forest cover rapid talks! Ready, set, go! #BERAworkshop2022
@UA_ACELab @BeraProject @wetland_GHG
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Welcome stakeholders, partners, collaborators, and researchers! #beraworkshop2022
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The view for the podium at #BERAWorkshop2022. It’s great to see everyone in person!
At the #BERAworkshop2022 today. Absolutely thrilled to be part of this work. @BeraProject
Another great day in the field learning about certification, planning, and operations with @DUCBoreal and @AlbertaPacific.
