Jesse Rush
@lifesjustpeaty.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ CU Boulder // CIRES & EBIO // Let’s talk peatlands, biogeochemistry and climate change!
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🚨Looking for a Geoscience Perspective on Climate Change?
Exp403 co-chief Kristen St. John and former JRFB chair Larry Krissek just published this OPEN ACCESS book on it! Download it for free below!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Exp403 co-chief Kristen St. John and former JRFB chair Larry Krissek just published this OPEN ACCESS book on it! Download it for free below!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Climate Change
This book assesses past climatic change from a geoscience perspective and addresses common misconceptions on climate.
link.springer.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🚨Looking for a Geoscience Perspective on Climate Change?
Exp403 co-chief Kristen St. John and former JRFB chair Larry Krissek just published this OPEN ACCESS book on it! Download it for free below!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Exp403 co-chief Kristen St. John and former JRFB chair Larry Krissek just published this OPEN ACCESS book on it! Download it for free below!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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New research shows Colorado's subalpine wetlands may harbor a health risk impacting downstream water supplies. Read the story by @CIRESnews Fellow Eve-Lyn Hinkley here: buff.ly/UJCuQ26
Photo by Eve-Lyn Hinckley
Photo by Eve-Lyn Hinckley
August 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
New research shows Colorado's subalpine wetlands may harbor a health risk impacting downstream water supplies. Read the story by @CIRESnews Fellow Eve-Lyn Hinkley here: buff.ly/UJCuQ26
Photo by Eve-Lyn Hinckley
Photo by Eve-Lyn Hinckley
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Are you attending ESA this year? Are you a biocrust lover?
Come to COS 011 on Monday 1:30 pm to learn all about CrustNet and biological soil crusts. We are excited to recruit new collaborators and new sites for this project.
#esa2025
@womeninsoileco.bsky.social
Come to COS 011 on Monday 1:30 pm to learn all about CrustNet and biological soil crusts. We are excited to recruit new collaborators and new sites for this project.
#esa2025
@womeninsoileco.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Are you attending ESA this year? Are you a biocrust lover?
Come to COS 011 on Monday 1:30 pm to learn all about CrustNet and biological soil crusts. We are excited to recruit new collaborators and new sites for this project.
#esa2025
@womeninsoileco.bsky.social
Come to COS 011 on Monday 1:30 pm to learn all about CrustNet and biological soil crusts. We are excited to recruit new collaborators and new sites for this project.
#esa2025
@womeninsoileco.bsky.social
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It's not only us melting, but Permafrost peatlands, too! Covering 1.4 million km² across the Northern Hemisphere these landscapes are massive carbon stores. Due to rising temps they are thawing fast.
July 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
It's not only us melting, but Permafrost peatlands, too! Covering 1.4 million km² across the Northern Hemisphere these landscapes are massive carbon stores. Due to rising temps they are thawing fast.
My first ever student mentee was just informed she is graduating with honors for her work on high elevation wetlands and I am SO SO PROUD!
April 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
My first ever student mentee was just informed she is graduating with honors for her work on high elevation wetlands and I am SO SO PROUD!
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For our next #HumansOfCIRES, meet Jesse Rush (@lifesjustpeaty.bsky.social), a PhD student @colorado.edu studying carbon cycling in peatland ecosystems. Jesse has worked on multiple long-term global change projects, she loves to read books by Becky Chambers, and she teaches Zumba. buff.ly/lH8FTte
April 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For our next #HumansOfCIRES, meet Jesse Rush (@lifesjustpeaty.bsky.social), a PhD student @colorado.edu studying carbon cycling in peatland ecosystems. Jesse has worked on multiple long-term global change projects, she loves to read books by Becky Chambers, and she teaches Zumba. buff.ly/lH8FTte
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March 2025 climate summary for the Arctic is now up on the Alaska and Arctic Climate Newsletter. Important regional variability but no surprises at the pan-Arctic scale. #Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange #Spring2025 @climatologist49.bsky.social
alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/march-2025...
alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/march-2025...
April 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
March 2025 climate summary for the Arctic is now up on the Alaska and Arctic Climate Newsletter. Important regional variability but no surprises at the pan-Arctic scale. #Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange #Spring2025 @climatologist49.bsky.social
alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/march-2025...
alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/march-2025...
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Looking for an introduction to the LTER Network?
Check out this short video!
youtu.be/_rKX3cfmf4M
We're so many things to so many people—but at our core, our sites are trying to understand how ecosystems function and change over time.
Check out this short video!
youtu.be/_rKX3cfmf4M
We're so many things to so many people—but at our core, our sites are trying to understand how ecosystems function and change over time.
What is the Long-Term Ecological Research Network?
YouTube video by US LTER
youtu.be
April 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Looking for an introduction to the LTER Network?
Check out this short video!
youtu.be/_rKX3cfmf4M
We're so many things to so many people—but at our core, our sites are trying to understand how ecosystems function and change over time.
Check out this short video!
youtu.be/_rKX3cfmf4M
We're so many things to so many people—but at our core, our sites are trying to understand how ecosystems function and change over time.
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New paper on bioclimatic envelope modelling of peat in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1. New projections and tweaks to methods give us higher confidence than previous attempts.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1. New projections and tweaks to methods give us higher confidence than previous attempts.
Climate change impacts on blanket peatland in Great Britain
Action should be taken to raise water tables at degraded sites to limit the impact of future drought conditions. However, climatic conditions being outside the current bioclimatic envelope may make f...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New paper on bioclimatic envelope modelling of peat in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1. New projections and tweaks to methods give us higher confidence than previous attempts.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1. New projections and tweaks to methods give us higher confidence than previous attempts.
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I’m pleased to announce the winner of our first 2024 Nobel Peat Prize!
@peatlandecr.bsky.social wins for top peatland outreach/network organization!
I will donate $500 ($1/Gt C stored in northern peatlands) to their PEAT NEEDS fund.
Another #NobelPeatPrize winner announced next Thursday.
@peatlandecr.bsky.social wins for top peatland outreach/network organization!
I will donate $500 ($1/Gt C stored in northern peatlands) to their PEAT NEEDS fund.
Another #NobelPeatPrize winner announced next Thursday.
November 21, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I’m pleased to announce the winner of our first 2024 Nobel Peat Prize!
@peatlandecr.bsky.social wins for top peatland outreach/network organization!
I will donate $500 ($1/Gt C stored in northern peatlands) to their PEAT NEEDS fund.
Another #NobelPeatPrize winner announced next Thursday.
@peatlandecr.bsky.social wins for top peatland outreach/network organization!
I will donate $500 ($1/Gt C stored in northern peatlands) to their PEAT NEEDS fund.
Another #NobelPeatPrize winner announced next Thursday.
Just a kitty wanting to do some peatland research
November 19, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Just a kitty wanting to do some peatland research
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My first postdoc paper is live and open access!
Here was asked a simple question: what happens to methane in canals draining tropical peatlands? Turns out, lots of it is consumed by methanotrophs!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here was asked a simple question: what happens to methane in canals draining tropical peatlands? Turns out, lots of it is consumed by methanotrophs!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fate of methane in canals draining tropical peatlands - Nature Communications
Canals draining vast areas of peatland in Southeast Asia may be hotspots for methane emissions. Perryman et al. surveyed dozens of canals in Indonesia and found that methane-eating microbes reduce emi...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2024 at 3:35 PM
My first postdoc paper is live and open access!
Here was asked a simple question: what happens to methane in canals draining tropical peatlands? Turns out, lots of it is consumed by methanotrophs!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here was asked a simple question: what happens to methane in canals draining tropical peatlands? Turns out, lots of it is consumed by methanotrophs!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Last big wet lab project of my PhD? EEMS
November 15, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Last big wet lab project of my PhD? EEMS
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Academia is strange. Get enough publications in the right journals and you'll be allowed to lead a team. No one checks whether you have the skills to lead a team, of course, why would they? You've published in journals. This should work out just fine.
November 23, 2023 at 4:59 PM
Academia is strange. Get enough publications in the right journals and you'll be allowed to lead a team. No one checks whether you have the skills to lead a team, of course, why would they? You've published in journals. This should work out just fine.
Restarting my tradition of sharing peatland references I stumble upon in my fiction reading 😊🌱
“In 1976 Manchester Museum had in its collection four preserved bog bodies…” Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
“In 1976 Manchester Museum had in its collection four preserved bog bodies…” Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
November 22, 2023 at 6:00 PM
Restarting my tradition of sharing peatland references I stumble upon in my fiction reading 😊🌱
“In 1976 Manchester Museum had in its collection four preserved bog bodies…” Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
“In 1976 Manchester Museum had in its collection four preserved bog bodies…” Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
50/50 books for the year? DONE!
Favorite: A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers 🥰
Favorite: A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers 🥰
November 21, 2023 at 8:08 PM
50/50 books for the year? DONE!
Favorite: A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers 🥰
Favorite: A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers 🥰
I am sooooo silty clay
fuck the political compass, where do you fall on the soil texture pyramid?
November 20, 2023 at 7:34 PM
I am sooooo silty clay
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How do you pay rent? With money, like a sucker? Have you thought about using eels?
In medieval England, people did just that! In fact, eel-rents were very common. In 1100, English landlords collected more than 500,000 eels in rent each year.
That's a lot of eels!
Here's a map:
🗃️🧪
In medieval England, people did just that! In fact, eel-rents were very common. In 1100, English landlords collected more than 500,000 eels in rent each year.
That's a lot of eels!
Here's a map:
🗃️🧪
November 20, 2023 at 5:56 PM
How do you pay rent? With money, like a sucker? Have you thought about using eels?
In medieval England, people did just that! In fact, eel-rents were very common. In 1100, English landlords collected more than 500,000 eels in rent each year.
That's a lot of eels!
Here's a map:
🗃️🧪
In medieval England, people did just that! In fact, eel-rents were very common. In 1100, English landlords collected more than 500,000 eels in rent each year.
That's a lot of eels!
Here's a map:
🗃️🧪
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Heading to EGU next year and have any cool northern peatland C research? Submit to our session “The Future of Northern Peatlands – Sinks or Sources of Atmospheric Carbon” - happy to co-convene this with Melanie Mayes, Xiaoying Shi and Avni Malhotra!
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio...
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio...
November 6, 2023 at 3:26 PM
Heading to EGU next year and have any cool northern peatland C research? Submit to our session “The Future of Northern Peatlands – Sinks or Sources of Atmospheric Carbon” - happy to co-convene this with Melanie Mayes, Xiaoying Shi and Avni Malhotra!
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio...
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio...
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"I began to make a point of empowering others rather than judging them, finding mentors and role models to guide me and hold me accountable, refraining from gossip, and building meaningful relations as a foundation of my academic career."
How I learned to nurture relationships in academia—and be more kind
Earlier in his career, this professor “was too wrapped up in judgment, competition, and overwork”
www.science.org
October 27, 2023 at 1:43 AM
"I began to make a point of empowering others rather than judging them, finding mentors and role models to guide me and hold me accountable, refraining from gossip, and building meaningful relations as a foundation of my academic career."
Finally made my way over here! Excited to keep growing my network of cool science folks but not as excited as I am about peat, biogeochemistry and ecosystem ecology 😉😎
October 26, 2023 at 1:44 AM
Finally made my way over here! Excited to keep growing my network of cool science folks but not as excited as I am about peat, biogeochemistry and ecosystem ecology 😉😎