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Just went to an amazing seminar by @weatherwest.bsky.social at @ucscscicomm.bsky.social . This guy is a national treasure. Be sure to give him a follow if you experience weather and climate in the US west

Over 4 years, we collected 130 meters of peat cores, surveyed 51 forest plots, processed 1,000+ samples, and built a custom mapping model to estimate peatland area, depth, and carbon stocks across the region.

And perhaps the most unexpected? White-sand peatlands in Guainía — so unusual we had to invent a new term to describe them.

The real breakthrough came near the town of Puerto Lleras in Meta. I was living nearby at the time, and this find opened the floodgates — soon we were locating peatlands in Guaviare, Vaupés, Caquetá, even the Llanos.