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Peatland ECR Action Team
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🚨 New doctoral research opportunity under the EPA-funded #AIMINGPEAT research project focusing on CO2 emissions/removals from Irish #peatlands

ℹ️ www.egu.eu/jobs/7362/

Mail your application or questions to alina.premrov@atu.ie @apremrov.bsky.social
Advertisement for a funded PhD opportunity in the AIMINGPEAT research project titled “Advanced Integrated Measurements and Modelling Approaches for Predicting Carbon Emissions and Removals from Irish Peatlands.” The position is offered by the Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Atlantic Technological University (ATU), Sligo, Ireland. Logos of EPA Research, The James Hutton Institute, Trinity College Dublin, and ATU are shown at the top. A QR code is on the right. A yellow starburst at the bottom right reads “APPLY NOW! EARLY APPLICATIONS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED!” A blue banner includes a yellow pointing hand and the highlighted link: https://www.egu.eu/jobs/7362/.
October 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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We are extending the deadline until November 09 for submissions to the #2026PeatECRcalendar.

Send us your best #wildlife photos in #peatlands and other #wetlands.

Include the coordinates, peatland and animal name, some information about your project.

Email to peatecr@gmail.com
Promotional poster for the 2026 PEAT (Peatland ECR Action Team) calendar themed "Wildlife." It announces that the photo submission deadline has been extended until November 9. The background shows a wooden path leading through peatland toward distant mountains at sunset. Photo credit: Justinas Sakas.
October 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Seeking images of peatlands of all kinds! As we didn’t quite get enough ‘wildlife’ themed images for our 2026 calendar, we’re extending the invitation for all our peat friends to donate any images they’ve taken on their adventures lately – please email them to us via: peatecr@gmail.com💚
October 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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🚨📸 About 2 weeks left to send in your best #wildlife in a #peatland shot and publish in the 2026 edition of #PeatCalendar

Email to: PeatECR@gmail.com

Deadline: 30 September
Promotional poster for the “2026 PEAT Calendar” by the Peatland ECR Action Team. The calendar theme is “Wildlife.” The poster announces that photo submissions are open until September 30, 2025. The background features a scenic photo of a wooden boardwalk leading through a peatland toward snow-capped mountains under a colorful sunset sky. Photo credit: Justinas Sakas.
September 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Excellent shot for the #PeatCalendar2026!!

#peatland
#wetlands
#Wildlife
Promotional graphic for the 2026 PEAT (Peatland ECR Action Team) calendar with the theme ‘Wildlife.’ The text announces photo submissions are open until September 30, 2025. Background image shows a wooden boardwalk stretching through peatland toward snow-capped mountains under a colorful sunset sky. Photo credit: Justinas Sakas.
August 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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New Series Alert!💚Welcome to the PeatECR bio series, a monthly spotlight on one early-career researcher/practitioner working in and around wetlands (no discrimination between peatlands and non-peatlands in this case). If you or someone you know would like to be featured, please get in touch with us!
PeatECR Bio Series - a monthly spotlight on one researcher/practitioner working in and around wetlands. If you or someone you know would like to be featured, please email us at peatecr@gmail.com with attention to Rahel Bauerdick, our current coordinator of this series. Please share far and wide to help us reach more early-career folk around the world!
July 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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PeatECR Bio Series #1 - just in time to introduce our first featured bio in for July 2025 💚
Today we introduce Leeza Speranskaya, a recent MSc graduate, focusing on evaporation dynamics in restiad peat bogs. Connect with Leeza here:
www.linkedin.com/in/leeza-spe...
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Leeza Speranskaya is a Masters graduate from the University of Waikato, now working as an environmental scientist at a consultancy. She is a self-proclaimed data cruncher but enjoys the occasional bush-bash, both of which she got to experience during her Masters! Leeza’s Masters research focussed on Kopuatai bog, a unique peatland ecosystem located near Paeroa, New Zealand. Kopuatai is dominated by a plant called Empodisma robustum, a wire rush that has allowed this peatland to form due to its high water retention abilities. Specifically, this plant conserves water through restricted transpiration and its dense standing litter. Leeza’s research had two components - (a) analysing over 10 years of evaporation data (i.e., data crunching) which was diligently collected by her supervisor Dave Campbell via the eddy covariance method, and (b) measuring interception loss by collecting rainwater from under the dense E. robustum structure (i.e., bush-bashing). The 10-year evaporation dataset was compared to that of Mer Bleue, Canada, in collaboration with key researchers Peter Lafleur and Elyn Humphreys, to determine the impact of their differing vegetation types on evaporation. This research was able to confirm that E. robustum does in fact have higher water retention capabilities than the Sphagnum mosses found at Mer Bleue during dry canopy conditions, while wet canopy conditions allowed for higher evaporation due to interception loss. An analysis of evaporation patterns with increasing vapour pressure deficit (VPD) at Kopuatai and Mer Bleue indicated that E. robustum is able to restrict evaporation at high VPD, which may allow it to be more resistant to climatic warming and drying compared to ecosystems like Mer Bleue.
July 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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🚨Little reminder for all #PeatECR #photographers to send in your best shots of #wildlife in #wetlands and #peatlands.

🏆 Receive fame and appreciation while we feature your photos in our next edition of the #PeatCalendar.

✉️ peatecr@gmail.com
📸 Deadline for submission September 30, 2025
ALT text: Announcement graphic for the “2026 PEAT Calendar” with the theme “Wildlife.” Photo submissions are open until September 30, 2025. The background shows a boardwalk through a peatland at sunset with mountains in the distance. Photo by Justinas Sakas.
July 3, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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The final recipient of our May #PeatNeeds is Ricardo Jaramillo. Ricardo’s research focuses on restoration of tropical mountain peatlands in Ecuador, and working with Indigenous communities in the Andes. 1/2
Ricardo is crouching next to a tussock, smiling at the camera, and is wearing a grey ball cap, black-framed glasses, grey long-sleeved top and blue trousers. There is more tussock vegetation behind Ricardo going up a hillside. Some mist hangs in the air.
May 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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The next recipient of our May #PeatNeeds is Johannes Cunow (@jcunow.bsky.social). Johannes is investigating the influence of snowcover changes and reindeer grazing on when and where roots grow in northern ecosystems. 1/3
Johannes is standing under a blue umbrella on a boardwalk in a peatland, wearing black-framed glasses, a white polo shirt, bright blue and yellow board shorts, and brown sandals. Johannes is looking at the camera and is holding the umbrella and a folding ruler. The boardwalk is surrounded by cottongrass and a few dipwells. In the background there are trees and blue sky with some clouds.
May 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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The first recipient of our May #PeatNeeds is Victor Lecegui, who is studying the ecological drivers that affect microeukaryote communities in peatlands across the Iberian Peninsula. Victor will use the microgrant to buy a pair of waterproof boots and a hand lens for surveying vegetation plots.
A headshot of Victor, wearing a navy winter coat with fur-lined hood and smiling at the camera. The sky is overcast. In the background there are orange-brown larches and evergreen trees.
May 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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🔎 Find and follow us on LinkedIn too now and get updates on #PeatNeeds, #PeatCalendar, #PeatPublications and other #PeatECR resources and services.

🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/peat...
Picture of a LinkedIn profile page of the Peatland ECR Action Team, featuring a panorama view of an open wetland with cotton grass and low sedge vegetation, as well as a boardwalk leading through. A mountain range is seen in the far background.
May 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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🚨 #PeatECR don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants!

🗓️ Just less than a week left to apply for the final round of funding. Send us your wish list, let us know how we can support you! 🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧

ℹ️ More info on requirements and conditions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
A photo of a group of people walking through a peatland on a sunny day. There are trees and blue sky in the background. Photo credit to Meike Lemmer. Overlain on the photo is a banner reading Peat Needs 2025 in March, April, and May. In the foreground, also overlain on the photo, there is a cartoon backpack, pair of rubber boots, microscope, and the Peatland ECR Action Team (PEAT) logo.
April 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The final recipient for our April round of #PeatNeeds is Vanessa Götz. Vanessa investigates how plant roots (e.g. Eriophorum vaginatum) interact with thawing permafrost soils in the Alaskan moist acidic tussock tundra and how these interactions influence carbon cycling. 1/2
Vanessa is smiling at the camera taking a selfie, wearing black-framed glasses and is wrapped up in a khaki-green wooly hat, tartan scarf, and grey-brown coat. Vanessa is standing on the edge of a frozen lake covered in snow. In the background there are trees around the edge of the lake.
April 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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The second recipient for the April round of #PeatNeeds is Laura Baugh (laurabaugh94.bsky.social). Laura is interested in GHG fluxes from waterbodies in rewetted peatlands, with a specific focus on methane. 1/2
Laura, wearing a black ball cap, light blue long-sleeved top, black trousers, and hiking boots, is standing on a boardwalk in a peatland and smiling at the camera. There are trees in the background. Behind Laura is a pool, and to the left are a couple of floating chambers stacked up which are used to measure greenhouse gas fluxes from peatland waterbodies.
April 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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The first recipient of our April #PeatNeeds is Carla Welpelo (@carterarla.bsky.social). Carla investigates the effects of birch encroachment on carbon and water cycling in a rewetted peatland following peat extraction. 1/2
Carla, wearing a grey rain coat, black rain pants, boots, and a turquoise scarf and a big smile, is standing on a wooden frame supporting an eddy covariance tower in a peatland. The EC tower is surrounded by tussock vegetation in the foreground. In the background there are trees and open water.
April 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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📸 #PeatECR get your camera ready before heading into this year’s field season!

🗓️ The 2026 #Peat Calendar is in the planning!

Send us your best #peatland *WILDLIFE* photo until September 30th: 📧 peatecr@gmail.com
Promotional graphic for the 2026 PEAT (Peatland ECR Action Team) calendar with the theme ‘Wildlife’. It announces a photo submission deadline of September 30, 2025. The background features a scenic photo of a wooden boardwalk leading through a peatland towards a snow-dusted mountain under a colorful sunset sky. Photo credit is given to Justinas Sakas.
April 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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The third recipient of our March #PeatNeeds microgrants is Sebestian Kalang William from the University of Tartu. He is working on measuring GHG fluxes in tropical peat swamp forests and land use change. 1/2
Sebestian wearing a black jacket takes a selfie on an eddy covariance tower above the forest canopy, with various weather or environmental monitoring instruments around him. In the background, there is a vast expanse of dense green forest under a partly cloudy sky.
April 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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🚨 Sorry #PeatECR the link shared yesterday for 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants was broken.

🗓️ Applications for the second round of funding close Friday April 4. Send us your wish list, let us know how we can support you! 🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧

ℹ️ More information on requirements here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
A photo of a group of people walking through a peatland on a sunny day. There are trees and blue sky in the background. Overlain on the photo is a banner reading Peat Needs 2025 in March, April, and May. In the foreground, also overlain on the photo, there is a cartoon backpack, pair of rubber boots, microscope, the Peatland ECR Action Team (PEAT) logo, and photo credit to Meike Lemmer.
March 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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🚨 #PeatECR don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants!

🗓️ Applications for the next next round of funding close Friday April 4. Send us your wish list, let us know how we can support you! 🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧

ℹ️ More info on requirements and conditions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
A photo of a group of people walking through a peatland on a sunny day. There are trees and blue sky in the background. Photo credit to Meike Lemmer. Overlain on the photo is a banner reading Peat Needs 2025 in March, April, and May. In the foreground, also overlain on the photo, there is a cartoon backpack, pair of rubber boots, microscope, and the Peatland ECR Action Team (PEAT) logo.
March 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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The next recipient of our March #PeatNeeds microgrants is Laura Catalina Riaño Peña. She is working on ecological restoration of pools in ombrotrophic and minerotrophic peatlands in Canada.
March 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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The first recipient of our March #PeatNeeds microgrants is Dylan Oliver. He is part of the wet woodlands research network (@wetwoodlands.bsky.social) where scientists and stakeholders are interested in nature-based solutions for climate change. 1/2
March 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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🚨 #PeatECR don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants!

🗓️ Applications for the first round of funding closes Friday March 7. Send us your wish list, before you head off into the field! 🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧

ℹ️ More info on requirements and conditions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
A photo of a group of people walking through a peatland on a sunny day. There are trees and blue sky in the background. Photo credit to Meike Lemmer. Overlain on the photo is a banner reading Peat Needs 2025 in March, April, and May. In the foreground, also overlain on the photo, there is a cartoon backpack, pair of rubber boots, microscope, and the Peatland ECR Action Team (PEAT) logo.
March 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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🚨 #PeatECR don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants!

🗓️ Just over a week left to apply for funding in March.
Send us your wish list, before you head off into the field!
🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧

ℹ️ More info on requirements and conditions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
February 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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🚨 #PeatECR don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants!

🗓️ Three weeks left to apply for funding in March.
Send us your wish list, before you head off into the field!
🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧

ℹ️ More info on requirements and conditions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
A photo of a group of people walking through a peatland on a sunny day. There are trees and blue sky in the background. Photo credit to Meike Lemmer. Overlain on the photo is a banner reading Peat Needs 2025 in March, April, and May. In the foreground, also overlain on the photo, there is a cartoon backpack, pair of rubber boots, microscope, the Peatland ECR Action Team (PEAT) logo.
February 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM