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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky
@queenofpeat.bsky.social
Professor, scientist, mom. Chaser of wildfires and permafrost thaw. I love bogs and want you to join me.
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Merry Christmas moss to you and yours.
December 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Merry Sphagnum!
December 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Merry christmoss!!
December 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Merry Christmas moss to you and yours.
December 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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RASEI 2025: Year in Review: November 2025

RASEI Fellow @queenofpeat.bsky.social Merritt Turetsky discusses how Bogs are the Real Superheroes on the TedX Stage
Bogs are real superheroes, cast as villains | Dr. Merritt Turetsky | TEDxBoulder
Scientist and bog lover Dr. Merritt Turetsky explains why we can no longer turn our backs on one of the strongest – but most misunderstood - heroes of the natural world. Boglands form from an overabundance of death: the laying down of preserved organic matter over thousands of years. This accumulat
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December 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Please share. Calling all bog lovers and peat aficionados - please drop a thumbs up or comment on this talk, and show TEDx why bogs are the best. My great hope is that we can drum up more bog champions in this world. With love and appreciation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...
Bogs are real superheroes, cast as villains | Dr. Merritt Turetsky | TEDxBoulder
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December 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Please share. Calling all bog lovers and peat aficionados - please drop a thumbs up or comment on this talk, and show TEDx why bogs are the best. My great hope is that we can drum up more bog champions in this world. With love and appreciation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...
Bogs are real superheroes, cast as villains | Dr. Merritt Turetsky | TEDxBoulder
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December 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I spoke to my deep passion of bogs and peatlands in this TEDx talk. Will you join me in becoming a bog champion? m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...
Bogs are real superheroes, cast as villains | Dr. Merritt Turetsky | TEDxBoulder
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November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I spoke to my deep passion of bogs and peatlands in this TEDx talk. Will you join me in becoming a bog champion? m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...
Bogs are real superheroes, cast as villains | Dr. Merritt Turetsky | TEDxBoulder
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November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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For the #canvas25 William H. Patrick, Jr. Memorial Lectureship, @queenofpeat.bsky.social is detailing the interplay between water, ecology, and CO2 and methane emissions in the long-term Alaska Peatland Experiment.

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November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Do you love bogs and Halloween? If so, please follow and share this thread to explore the eerie, the dark and the supernatural side of bog ecosystems. BogBoo. 1/

You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Do you love bogs and Halloween? If so, please follow and share this thread to explore the eerie, the dark and the supernatural side of bog ecosystems. BogBoo. 1/

You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I am leading graduate students through a discussion on effective writing practices. How do you push through writer’s block when it hits you? Please share your tips!
October 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Field demo from rapidly changing northern ecosystems. This shows a violent stream of methane bubbles venting through thawing permafrost soils to the sky. Video credit to Tom Douglas and Torre Jorgenson. Curious bog dog is a Friday bonus.
October 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Field demo from rapidly changing northern ecosystems. This shows a violent stream of methane bubbles venting through thawing permafrost soils to the sky. Video credit to Tom Douglas and Torre Jorgenson. Curious bog dog is a Friday bonus.
October 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Excited to be a speaker at TEDx Boulder Dreams and Reality this Sunday. Teaser: My dream is to live in a world that embraces boglands as sacred places. The reality is we live in a world intent on destroying them. But we can fight back and become bog champions. tedxboulder.com/speakers/dre...
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For 16 years TEDxBoulder has been captivating audiences with talks from all diciplines. Videos are posted here and live talks happen every fall.
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September 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Remembering my dear friend and trusted field partner on all things Sphagnum and peat, Teresa Hollingsworth (1975-2025). May your memory cross into the bogs of forever.
September 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Count the mosquitos. Still my happy place with a never ending tundra of peat, moss, and cotton grass.
August 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Hydrology Paper of the Day @queenofpeat.bsky.social and colleagues on fast thawing phenomena and permafrost processes: quantitatively defining "abrupt thaw" based on ecosystem change and spatial scale; situating thaw in the context of the carbon cycle; models; and decision tree classification.
August 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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What do we mean by abrupt permafrost thaw? This site above the permafrost tunnel in Alaska had no evidence of a sinkhole in this spot last fall. This thermokarst pit formed in the past several months, large enough for Hailey Webb, who made the discovery, to climb down into it.
July 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What do we mean by abrupt permafrost thaw? This site above the permafrost tunnel in Alaska had no evidence of a sinkhole in this spot last fall. This thermokarst pit formed in the past several months, large enough for Hailey Webb, who made the discovery, to climb down into it.
July 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.
July 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Happy bog day! Some photos from Shorepine Bog, Ucluelet #BC this June.
July 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Boggy bits around Hatchet Pond in the New Forest.
#BogDay #NewForest
July 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM