Mike Waddington 🇨🇦

Line Rochefort, Canada | The Convention on Wetlands Biography At 16, Dr Rochefort wanted to be a biologist. But it was 1977 – the natural sciences camps were boys-only. That did not stop her. She took the plant identification guide that one camper gave...

Celebrating Line Rochefort, named to the 2026 Women Changemakers in the World of Wetlands

At 16, she taught herself botany after being excluded from science camps for boys only. Today, she’s a global pioneer in #peatland #restoration and continues to champion women in science.

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We are applying the moss layer transfer technique on rock barrens to kickstart moss growth following wildfire.

Make moss, not war! 💚

New paper!

We took our peatland moss expertise and methods and applied it to fill and spill water storage dynamics to examine the hydrological controls on rock barrens moss and lichen mat growth. Mat NPP increases with increasing bedrock depression storage.

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🚨Funded #PhD opp🚨 in my lab, co supervised by Vincent Maire at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Linking above-and belowground plant #phenology to carbon cycling in #peatlands

You can see full advert (in english/french) here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...

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🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨
Disturbance Impacts on swamp and forested peatlands in southern Québec

This project will quantify how disturbances affect carbon cycling and hydrology in swamp and forested peatlands of southern Québec

More info here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...

very 1986 Depeche Mode Black Celebration’esque.

New paper led by Rachel Fallas & Chantel Markle with
6 winters of @nobel-water.bsky.social data

Micrometeorological variability and climate change affect snake overwintering habitat resilience

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Rattlesnakes overwinter in east Georgian Bay #peatland hummocks

Agreed! Axe Lake fen?

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay!

Photo: “After the Squalls”
(Peatland 234 at the NOBEL Water and Carbon Observatory @nobel-water.bsky.social)

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In 2010 the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab started research in Nobel @nobel-water.bsky.social and every year since have awarded the #NobelPeatPrize for the top #peatland paper of the year. *

* While “unpresidented”, in case he tries, the #NobelPeatPrize rules are clear. The award is non transferable.

Fun day at the annual McMaster Ecohydrology Lab "Peat Retreat" at @nobel-water.bsky.social

#peatlands #ecohydrology

A member of the public took a photo of the #peatland at Castell Nos in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 every Sunday this year and even sent me this video he made!

I really love how people have embraced #PeatColours across the world

Annual Christmas GPS map art with Emma!

Santa Gnome / Tomtenisse

Feel free to reach out to me or my colleagues with any questions if you want to join SEES.

#AcademicJobs #ClimateResilience #AI #EnvironmentalScience #ArcticResearch

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The School of Earth, Environment and Society (SEES) at McMaster is particularly interested in applications from experts in Al, environmental science, climate resilience, and/or Arctic studies. If this aligns with your expertise, we would love to hear from you!

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These chairs offer $1 million per year for full professors or $500,000 per year for associate professors, over eight years.

McMaster is seeking many scholars with ambitious research programs that tackle emerging global and national challenges in many disciplines.

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Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Nominees - Research & Innovation [...]Read More...

McMaster University is inviting top-tier researchers currently working abroad to join one of the world's leading research institutions through the prestigious Canada Impact+Research Chairs program.

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Graph showing the top 20 countries with the most journal articles published on the topic of climate change and landscape fire.

New paper out in Science Advances today on A guide to assessing the impacts of climate change on landscape fire. There are thousands of papers on fire and climate change, and this paper discusses how fire, its drivers, and its impacts are modeled.
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I'm very excited to share the latest paper from the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab. A whole lab effort where we expand our discussion on Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands to discuss how peat depth influences the strength of key feedbacks and peatland resilience. Check it out in Ecohydrology!

Excited to announce that our latest #SurvivalOfTheDeepest paper was just published! Read more about it here ⬇️

We discuss how the vulnerability of shallow peatlands arises from the interactions between regulatory (negative) and destabilizing (positive) ecohydrological feedbacks.

#SurvivalofTheDeepest #Peatlands #PeatPaper
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@sciencewithkyra.bsky.social @gregverkaik.bsky.social @peatbloke.bsky.social

We show that differences in peat properties and vegetation cover between shallow and deep peatlands influence the strength of fast hydrological feedbacks while the slow feedbacks related to vegetation community change and peat decomposition directly impact peatland physical characteristics

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A decade ago, we published our highly cited "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands" paper in Ecohydrology.

Today the sequel just dropped!

"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"

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On behalf of the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab I'm happy to announce the winner of the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize for top Intl #PeatPaper

Congrats to: Nijp et al.

"Ecohydrological feedbacks increase water storage, streamflow, and resilience of natural peatlands"

Journal of Hydrology
#Peatlands

Boreal forest stream running through the forest. Temperature logger, leaf litter collection basket, and pitfall trap in the foreground.

I'm recruiting a #PhDstudent ! Deadline Feb 10th!

Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

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Excited to share that our research group's latest "Survival of the Deepest" paper has been accepted! We outline how strengths of several ecohydrological feedbacks are likely different between #peatlands of different depths, leading to increased vulnerability of shallow systems.

Co-authors on BlueSky. Give them a follow.

@rosiebroyd.bsky.social @sciencewithkyra.bsky.social @gregverkaik.bsky.social @alexclark11.bsky.social @peatbloke.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social