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
A really fun day at Risley Moss with our @livunigeog.bsky.social MSc students. Peat coring, pool biogeochemistry, and vegetation ID. Loads of enthusiasm from the students.
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A really fun day at Risley Moss with our @livunigeog.bsky.social MSc students. Peat coring, pool biogeochemistry, and vegetation ID. Loads of enthusiasm from the students.
Interested in peatlands and biogeochemistry? Like fieldwork? Then come and do a PhD at @livunigeog.bsky.social
supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Interested in peatlands and biogeochemistry? Like fieldwork? Then come and do a PhD at @livunigeog.bsky.social
supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Somehow managed to dodge the showers on Binsey in the northern Lake District today
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Somehow managed to dodge the showers on Binsey in the northern Lake District today
A very pleasant few hours on Sale Fell in the Lake District today.
October 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A very pleasant few hours on Sale Fell in the Lake District today.
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?
October 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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?
It's Thursday which can only mean one thing: lab day for our 1st year @livunigeog.bsky.social undergrads. My students are out on campus @liverpooluni.bsky.social enjoying the sunshine and measuring CO2 emissions from grasses and soils.
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
It's Thursday which can only mean one thing: lab day for our 1st year @livunigeog.bsky.social undergrads. My students are out on campus @liverpooluni.bsky.social enjoying the sunshine and measuring CO2 emissions from grasses and soils.
Well this is cool. A new peat paper with a possible mechanism for Will-o’-the-wisps in @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Well this is cool. A new peat paper with a possible mechanism for Will-o’-the-wisps in @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Migneint blanket bog with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social
today, installing collars for our @water4all-eu.bsky.social
project ECOWADE, + doing some pool GHG measurements for Laura's PhD.
Also enjoyed visiting a new restoration site where work has just started to reprofile an eroded area of peat hags.
today, installing collars for our @water4all-eu.bsky.social
project ECOWADE, + doing some pool GHG measurements for Laura's PhD.
Also enjoyed visiting a new restoration site where work has just started to reprofile an eroded area of peat hags.
October 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Migneint blanket bog with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social
today, installing collars for our @water4all-eu.bsky.social
project ECOWADE, + doing some pool GHG measurements for Laura's PhD.
Also enjoyed visiting a new restoration site where work has just started to reprofile an eroded area of peat hags.
today, installing collars for our @water4all-eu.bsky.social
project ECOWADE, + doing some pool GHG measurements for Laura's PhD.
Also enjoyed visiting a new restoration site where work has just started to reprofile an eroded area of peat hags.
Got some people together for a whisky tasting and we all brought a few bottles. Ardbeg Uigeadail was unanimously voted the best.
October 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Got some people together for a whisky tasting and we all brought a few bottles. Ardbeg Uigeadail was unanimously voted the best.
Looking for a PhD in aquatic carbon/GHG cycling? Take a look at this fantastic opportunity. Led by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social and with Amy Pickard, Jens-Arne Subke and me. Field + lab components, and lots of exciting science.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Looking for a PhD in aquatic carbon/GHG cycling? Take a look at this fantastic opportunity. Led by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social and with Amy Pickard, Jens-Arne Subke and me. Field + lab components, and lots of exciting science.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Some excellent marginalia at Norton Priory today. Beware the giant snails!
September 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Some excellent marginalia at Norton Priory today. Beware the giant snails!
Now online (open access) in final version academic.oup.com/femsec/advan...
September 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Now online (open access) in final version academic.oup.com/femsec/advan...
A car full of greenhouse gas sampling collars, made by the School of Engineering workshops at @liverpooluni.bsky.social. These will go into a North Wales blanket bog for our @water4all-eu.bsky.social project ECOWADE.
September 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A car full of greenhouse gas sampling collars, made by the School of Engineering workshops at @liverpooluni.bsky.social. These will go into a North Wales blanket bog for our @water4all-eu.bsky.social project ECOWADE.
A successful day coring two sites on the Migneint blanket bog in North Wales with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social, @rchiverrell.bsky.social & undergrad Teleri. We'll analyse the cores for geochemistry (via XRF) and organic matter composition (infrared spectrometry).
September 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A successful day coring two sites on the Migneint blanket bog in North Wales with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social, @rchiverrell.bsky.social & undergrad Teleri. We'll analyse the cores for geochemistry (via XRF) and organic matter composition (infrared spectrometry).
New paper accepted in FEMS Microbiology Ecology:
"Winter microbial community structure and methane-cycling potential in constructed agricultural wetlands across regions and microhabitat"
For this, we sampled ~40 wetlands in two different regions of Sweden.
"Winter microbial community structure and methane-cycling potential in constructed agricultural wetlands across regions and microhabitat"
For this, we sampled ~40 wetlands in two different regions of Sweden.
September 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
New paper accepted in FEMS Microbiology Ecology:
"Winter microbial community structure and methane-cycling potential in constructed agricultural wetlands across regions and microhabitat"
For this, we sampled ~40 wetlands in two different regions of Sweden.
"Winter microbial community structure and methane-cycling potential in constructed agricultural wetlands across regions and microhabitat"
For this, we sampled ~40 wetlands in two different regions of Sweden.
A few hours alone, stravaiging the Wiltshire Downs around Avebury, and with a visit to Silbury Hill (a prehistoric artificial mound). A good afternoon for cloudscapes.
August 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A few hours alone, stravaiging the Wiltshire Downs around Avebury, and with a visit to Silbury Hill (a prehistoric artificial mound). A good afternoon for cloudscapes.
Question for Picarro GasScouter users: has anyone seen this before? Our field tech has been having an issue where the analyser works normally for a little while, then goes weird and gives an error message.
August 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Question for Picarro GasScouter users: has anyone seen this before? Our field tech has been having an issue where the analyser works normally for a little while, then goes weird and gives an error message.
An afternoon wander along the Ridgeway to Wayland's Smithy Long Barrow. Even on a sunny day I find this place has a powerful and eerie atmosphere. Then on to Uffington White Horse, which was carved ~3000 years ago.
August 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
An afternoon wander along the Ridgeway to Wayland's Smithy Long Barrow. Even on a sunny day I find this place has a powerful and eerie atmosphere. Then on to Uffington White Horse, which was carved ~3000 years ago.
A visit to @nationaltrust.org.uk Croome. The landscape is parched, the ground is cracking. But look: The River (actually an artificial waterway) is green and alive. Wetlands for the win!
August 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A visit to @nationaltrust.org.uk Croome. The landscape is parched, the ground is cracking. But look: The River (actually an artificial waterway) is green and alive. Wetlands for the win!
Escaped to the Lake District today. Glorious.
August 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Escaped to the Lake District today. Glorious.
I don't find this justification convincing. One for the peatland community. www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17...
August 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I don't find this justification convincing. One for the peatland community. www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17...
Last day in Uppsala. Scorching. Cycled down to Ekoln for a swim only to find a large algal bloom. Oh well, no swimming today.
August 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Last day in Uppsala. Scorching. Cycled down to Ekoln for a swim only to find a large algal bloom. Oh well, no swimming today.
Cycling through the Swedish agricultural landscape today. Found a ditch. It illustrates nicely how ditches can be refuges for biodiversity, including wetland species, when wetlands and wildness have vanished from the surrounding fields.
August 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Cycling through the Swedish agricultural landscape today. Found a ditch. It illustrates nicely how ditches can be refuges for biodiversity, including wetland species, when wetlands and wildness have vanished from the surrounding fields.
Back at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences today for more wetland meetings. Stopped by my favourite pond on campus. I have a really cool paper to write on this (CH4 ebullition, C burial, water chem, enzymes) when I find time, and we're now using it for citizen science.
August 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Back at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences today for more wetland meetings. Stopped by my favourite pond on campus. I have a really cool paper to write on this (CH4 ebullition, C burial, water chem, enzymes) when I find time, and we're now using it for citizen science.
A great day at Fjällnora: canoeing, swimming, and wandering the forest trails.
August 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
A great day at Fjällnora: canoeing, swimming, and wandering the forest trails.