Mike Peacock
@peatymike.bsky.social
Biogeochemist at University of Liverpool & SLU Uppsala. Greenhouse gases and water chemistry in peatlands, lakes, streams, ditches and ponds. Lover of mountains and wild places.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GXE28xwAAAAJ&hl=en
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GXE28xwAAAAJ&hl=en
Christmas is over. Time to panic submit your EGU abstract! Why not send it to our session on aquatic ecosystems and greenhouse gases?
Our session on aquatic ecosystems and greenhouse gases will be running again at #EGU26. Why not get ahead of the post-Christmas last-minute rush and submit an abstract unfashionably early?
January 5, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Christmas is over. Time to panic submit your EGU abstract! Why not send it to our session on aquatic ecosystems and greenhouse gases?
And now online in early view: "Towards improved accounting and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from ditches and canals"
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Pleased to say this paper has been accepted and coming soon to @iopp-environment.bsky.social. Led by @tksilver.bsky.social and with an all-star cast of supporting authors. A lovely way to end the year. Merry Ditchmas all!
Just submitted our collaborative perspective piece! 🎉 It‘s all about improving accounting and mitigation of GHG emissions from ditches—sparked by the great presentations and discussions at our ditch symposium! 📈🧪👩🔬🌍
January 2, 2026 at 12:12 PM
And now online in early view: "Towards improved accounting and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from ditches and canals"
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Pleased to say this paper has been accepted and coming soon to @iopp-environment.bsky.social. Led by @tksilver.bsky.social and with an all-star cast of supporting authors. A lovely way to end the year. Merry Ditchmas all!
Just submitted our collaborative perspective piece! 🎉 It‘s all about improving accounting and mitigation of GHG emissions from ditches—sparked by the great presentations and discussions at our ditch symposium! 📈🧪👩🔬🌍
What's the collective noun for a group of ditch scientists?
December 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Pleased to say this paper has been accepted and coming soon to @iopp-environment.bsky.social. Led by @tksilver.bsky.social and with an all-star cast of supporting authors. A lovely way to end the year. Merry Ditchmas all!
A good day stomping across the valleys and moors of the Western Pennines today, especially for fans of Molinia. Ended the day with some ancient stone bothering at the Neolithic Pikestones burial cairn.
December 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A good day stomping across the valleys and moors of the Western Pennines today, especially for fans of Molinia. Ended the day with some ancient stone bothering at the Neolithic Pikestones burial cairn.
Happy Solstice all. I enjoyed a bleak walk along the Sefton Coast. My favourite time to be here, when the landcape feels huge and elemental and empty.
December 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Happy Solstice all. I enjoyed a bleak walk along the Sefton Coast. My favourite time to be here, when the landcape feels huge and elemental and empty.
Out of office reply: activated. Happy to have reached the end of a very busy semester 🥳🎄
December 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Out of office reply: activated. Happy to have reached the end of a very busy semester 🥳🎄
Took the afternoon off for a wetlands fix at @wwtworldwide.bsky.social Martin Mere. No sun, no cold weather; it's hard to find joy in the landscape under such endless drear. A couple of marsh harriers and a flock of egrets were welcome sights that helped to lift my spirits though.
December 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Took the afternoon off for a wetlands fix at @wwtworldwide.bsky.social Martin Mere. No sun, no cold weather; it's hard to find joy in the landscape under such endless drear. A couple of marsh harriers and a flock of egrets were welcome sights that helped to lift my spirits though.
Reposted by Mike Peacock
A decade ago, we published our highly cited "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands" paper in Ecohydrology.
Today the sequel just dropped!
"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1/3
Today the sequel just dropped!
"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1/3
December 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A decade ago, we published our highly cited "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands" paper in Ecohydrology.
Today the sequel just dropped!
"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1/3
Today the sequel just dropped!
"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1/3
Reposted by Mike Peacock
….and my poster is up! Although you won’t get the pleasure of talking to me about it until 5pm tomorrow 🌱 #BES2025 #WetWoodlands #ForgottenForests #SwampScience #Peatlands
December 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
….and my poster is up! Although you won’t get the pleasure of talking to me about it until 5pm tomorrow 🌱 #BES2025 #WetWoodlands #ForgottenForests #SwampScience #Peatlands
Reposted by Mike Peacock
I'm presenting my results so far at British Ecological Society Annual Meeting this week. If you're there, come and find me on 17th December in Cromdale Hall, 17:00 - 18:30 🌳🍃 @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com @li-corenv.bsky.social #WetWoodlands #ForgottenForests #Peatlands #SwampScience
December 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I'm presenting my results so far at British Ecological Society Annual Meeting this week. If you're there, come and find me on 17th December in Cromdale Hall, 17:00 - 18:30 🌳🍃 @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com @li-corenv.bsky.social #WetWoodlands #ForgottenForests #Peatlands #SwampScience
First update from STOTEN in a while. Yet none of these ongoing issues are obvious from STOTEN's homepage. I'd be annoyed if I had been unaware and published with them in the past year.
December 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
First update from STOTEN in a while. Yet none of these ongoing issues are obvious from STOTEN's homepage. I'd be annoyed if I had been unaware and published with them in the past year.
A Friday afternoon grant rejection; a great way to end the week 🥳
December 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A Friday afternoon grant rejection; a great way to end the week 🥳
A reminder for our #EGU2026 aquatic GHG session in Vienna next May. A few abstracts trickling in already, and looking forward to seeing more as they arrive.
Our session on aquatic ecosystems and greenhouse gases will be running again at #EGU26. Why not get ahead of the post-Christmas last-minute rush and submit an abstract unfashionably early?
December 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A reminder for our #EGU2026 aquatic GHG session in Vienna next May. A few abstracts trickling in already, and looking forward to seeing more as they arrive.
Reposted by Mike Peacock
#peatlands interesting piece from @renewableuk.bsky.social here www.renewableuk.com/media/wrdgro...
I’m dubious about the argument that these habitats are replaceable over human timescales based on the ability to restore hydrological funtio . But I’d value bluesky #peatland experts thoughts!
I’m dubious about the argument that these habitats are replaceable over human timescales based on the ability to restore hydrological funtio . But I’d value bluesky #peatland experts thoughts!
www.renewableuk.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#peatlands interesting piece from @renewableuk.bsky.social here www.renewableuk.com/media/wrdgro...
I’m dubious about the argument that these habitats are replaceable over human timescales based on the ability to restore hydrological funtio . But I’d value bluesky #peatland experts thoughts!
I’m dubious about the argument that these habitats are replaceable over human timescales based on the ability to restore hydrological funtio . But I’d value bluesky #peatland experts thoughts!
Reposted by Mike Peacock
I'm recruiting a #PhDstudent ! Deadline Feb 10th!
Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
December 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I'm recruiting a #PhDstudent ! Deadline Feb 10th!
Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Reposted by Mike Peacock
Question for the worldwide peat feed - are people aware of studies for Caesium 137 contamination for your work patch and is that something that anyone feels they need to consider for restoration works? Either as a driver for management or a constraint for what you could do? Thanks!
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Question for the worldwide peat feed - are people aware of studies for Caesium 137 contamination for your work patch and is that something that anyone feels they need to consider for restoration works? Either as a driver for management or a constraint for what you could do? Thanks!
Lovely Friday news; our EPSRC Impact Accelerator Account proposal has been successfully funded.
Titled "Ditching Methane to Engineer Net Zero" (yes, it's about ditches), and with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social and @peatblogger.bsky.social also on board. Looking forward to more ditch GHG work in 2026.
Titled "Ditching Methane to Engineer Net Zero" (yes, it's about ditches), and with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social and @peatblogger.bsky.social also on board. Looking forward to more ditch GHG work in 2026.
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Lovely Friday news; our EPSRC Impact Accelerator Account proposal has been successfully funded.
Titled "Ditching Methane to Engineer Net Zero" (yes, it's about ditches), and with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social and @peatblogger.bsky.social also on board. Looking forward to more ditch GHG work in 2026.
Titled "Ditching Methane to Engineer Net Zero" (yes, it's about ditches), and with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social and @peatblogger.bsky.social also on board. Looking forward to more ditch GHG work in 2026.
Last 1st year @livunigeog.bsky.social labs of the semester. Our students are out valiantly measuring ecosystem CO2 fluxes in the torrential rain. @livunisoes.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Last 1st year @livunigeog.bsky.social labs of the semester. Our students are out valiantly measuring ecosystem CO2 fluxes in the torrential rain. @livunisoes.bsky.social
Reposted by Mike Peacock
Excited to share the first publication from my PhD work on swamps!
We conducted a synoptic study of 12 swamps across southern Ontario looking at carbon pools and fluxes.
doi.org/10.19189/001...
We conducted a synoptic study of 12 swamps across southern Ontario looking at carbon pools and fluxes.
doi.org/10.19189/001...
Quantifying Carbon Pools and Fluxes in Southern Ontario Temperate Swamps | Published in Mires and Peat
By Megan A. Schmidt, Veronica Santia & 3 more. Article 32.31: The North American definition of swamp disregards soil type, meaning some swamps also meet the definition of peatlands. This study investi...
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Excited to share the first publication from my PhD work on swamps!
We conducted a synoptic study of 12 swamps across southern Ontario looking at carbon pools and fluxes.
doi.org/10.19189/001...
We conducted a synoptic study of 12 swamps across southern Ontario looking at carbon pools and fluxes.
doi.org/10.19189/001...
Home lab set up for the day - time to get on with analysing a load of swamp CH4 samples.
December 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Home lab set up for the day - time to get on with analysing a load of swamp CH4 samples.
Reposted by Mike Peacock
The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! We encourage the #peatland community to give each of these wonderful papers a read.
The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper
The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! We encourage the #peatland community to give each of these wonderful papers a read.
The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper
The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper
An enjoyable few hours touring some Scottish beaver wetlands with @dralanlaw.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
An enjoyable few hours touring some Scottish beaver wetlands with @dralanlaw.bsky.social
Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...
In the lab today - three boxes of water samples (two from UK lowland peat ditches, one from South African lakes) to run for UV-vis today, to give data on dissolved organic matter.
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
In the lab today - three boxes of water samples (two from UK lowland peat ditches, one from South African lakes) to run for UV-vis today, to give data on dissolved organic matter.