🚨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...
Subalpine wetland near treeline in the mountains.
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
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
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.
So deserved!!!
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!
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.
📸 #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
A person in sunglasses and a hat standing on a wooden platform above peatland while holding up moss to the camera. In the bottom left corner, there is a blue box with the CIRES logo and white text: Humans of CIRES: Jesse Rush. PhD student in CU Boulder's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
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
Splashscreen for the Alaska and Arctic Climate Newsletter post: March 2025 Arctic Climate Summary: Surprise! Warmer and wetter than average.
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...
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.
It all makes sense now… 😂
The lab is so beautiful and clean! 😍
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.
Once a labby always a labby as I say
Incredible!!
Me?! A grad student?! At a football game?! Alright I’m in 🥰 #skobuffs
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.
Just a kitty wanting to do some peatland research
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...
Last big wet lab project of my PhD? EEMS
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.
Anything by Becky Chambers is a fantastic read in my book! 😊
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
Just came out! And just as cozy and cute
50/50 books for the year? DONE!
Favorite: A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers 🥰
I am sooooo silty clay
A map of showing England, Cornwall, and Wales. The map land is somewhat sepia colored, and the water is a speckled blue. The map is dotted with many green circles of different sizes. Each dot, of course, is the location of an eel rent. Larger rets get bigger dots. It's a lot of dots, and a lot of eels. It's worth taking a moment to remember that this map is a lie. All maps are lies, really. It's just that we decide which lies matter to us and which ones don't. The very best map in the world is still wrong as an accurate representation of space.
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:
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Love seeing these!
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...
