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Martina Schlaipfer
@knowyouronion.bsky.social
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• Peat+GHG
• chambers+eddy covariance
• @cpaleolab.bsky.social | @uqam.ca | @peatlandecr.bsky.social
• current project: https://carbonique.ca
• she/her

We should swim in a fountain.
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cpaleolab.bsky.social
Durant les étés 2024 et 2025, l'étudiante à la maîtrise Joanie Boulard a échantillonné des monolithes de tourbe et des carottes d'arbres dans 5 tourbières situées dans les Basses-terres du Saint-Laurent afin d'évaluer l'impact du boisement récent sur la fonction d'accumulation du carbone.🌲
November 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reposted by Martina Schlaipfer
wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
The Conversation article that @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social and I wrote about the PeatPic Project and the power of harnessing people, community science and the importance of research networks is now online too

theconversation.com/harnessing-t...

#Peatlands #PeatColour
October 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reposted by Martina Schlaipfer
cpaleolab.bsky.social
Après une saison de feu intense, l'équipe C-Paleo s'est enfin rendu dans le parc national de Riding Mountain, au Manitoba.

Un 12e parc dans le projet d'inventaire des stocks de carbone des tourbières de Parcs Canada !!!

🍂🏞️🍂

@geotopqc.bsky.social @sciences.uqam.ca
October 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Reposted by Martina Schlaipfer
wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
🚨New Paper 🚨
The PeatPic Project: Predicting plot-scale green leaf #phenology across #peatlands

So happy to see this paper online — one of my favourite projects!

We explored how to capture how peatlands change colour using smartphones and community science!

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
October 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Reposted by Martina Schlaipfer
wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
Does anyone have any good resources (or their own examples) for how to make a good scientific poster to share with students.

Please RT!
September 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Reposted by Martina Schlaipfer
lornaharris.bsky.social
#ClimateWeekNYC is coming up! Then #COP30. We will hear more about the need for low-carbon technologies to reduce emissions and reach net-zero. But these technologies cannot come at the expense of carbon-rich #peatlands. I explain why in my new blog- Peatpedia!

open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...
The plan to reach net-zero: Why peatlands need to be on the agenda
As the buzz for New York Climate Week continues to build, we will hear more about innovative plans and new technologies developed by business and industry to help us reach net-zero emissions. But thes...
open.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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ramsar.org
#ExcitingNews! Austria has designated Peatlands in Styrian Salzkammergut as its 25th #RamsarSite. The Styrian Salzkammergut is a region in the Alps, between the Totes Gebirge mountain range and the Styrian Dachstein plateau.

@bmimi.gv.at

www.ramsar.org/news/austria...
September 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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globalchangebio.bsky.social
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential of Temperate Fen Paludicultures

📄 buff.ly/APdzmb9
August 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
If you’re a ECR and are keen to be part of the peatlands and wetlands community in the UK (and beyond!) - please think about joining our committee and helping us grow!

We have momentum now but we need it to continue!
August 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Reposted by Martina Schlaipfer
cpaleolab.bsky.social
La suite du projet sur les stocks de carbone des tourbières de Parc Canada : campagne de terrain à Wood Buffalo. Beaucoup de bisons et de forêts brulées. 🦬

Une tourbière pergélisolée a été découverte et a été carotté !!!

📌Parc national de Wood Buffalo, Territoires du Nord-Ouest et Alberta
August 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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univie.ac.at
What does the diet of bacteria have to do with the global climate? 💭🌍
Peatlands are powerful carbon sinks – if we let them stay intact. New research from ECH members shows how wetland farming – #paludiculture – and microbial life can work together to reduce #emissions without sacrificing land use. 🦠
Of Microbes and Mires: What the Diet of Bacteria Has to Do With the Global Climate - ECH
Peatlands are powerful carbon sinks - if we let them stay intact. New research from ECH members shows how wetland farming - magic word: paludiculture - and microbial life can work together to reduce e...
ech.univie.ac.at
August 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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peatlandecr.bsky.social
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...
#PeatECRBioSeries
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
Reposted by Martina Schlaipfer
peatlandecr.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Martina Schlaipfer
lornaharris.bsky.social
Wetlands across Canada are indeed great treasures for Canadians and globally. But the push to fast-track 'projects of national interest', incl. critical minerals, puts these important ecosystems at significant risk. A reminder to governments that protecting wetlands is also of national interest.
wetland-ghg.bsky.social Maria Strack @wetland-ghg.bsky.social · Jul 23
COP15 of the Ramsar Convention starts today. Here in Canada we have the privilege of being home to a quarter of the world's remaining wetlands. Let's not forget what a treasure they are.
theconversation.com/canadian-wet...
Canadian wetlands are treasures that deserve protection
Canada is home to a quarter of the world’s remaining wetlands. Despite decades of efforts, wetlands continue to be under threat around the world.
theconversation.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Reposted by Martina Schlaipfer
wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
Really nice article focused on the importance of Quebec #peatlands and the Carbonique project

(And a mini shout out of the #PeatColours project)

ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numeri...
Les tourbières, des alliées contre la crise climatique
Des spécialistes de ces puits de carbone veulent aider le gouvernement du Québec à faire des choix éclairés.
ici.radio-canada.ca
July 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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cpaleolab.bsky.social
Début du deuxième été de terrain pour le projet de maîtrise de Frédérique à Barachois, en Gaspésie. 🍃​

L'équipe a pris plusieurs mesures de flux de GES lors des campagnes de terrain de mai et juin !

@geotopqc.bsky.social
@sciences.uqam.ca
July 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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burdun.bsky.social
New paper out! Using over 20 years of #satellite data, we show that restored #peatlands start to resemble intact peatlands. Their #albedo and land surface #temperature (LST) gradually align with those of natural peatlands.
👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Satellite data archives reveal positive effects of peatland restoration: albedo and temperature begin to resemble those of intact peatlands - IOPscience
Satellite data archives reveal positive effects of peatland restoration: albedo and temperature begin to resemble those of intact peatlands, Burdun, Iuliia, Myllymäki, Mari, Artz, Rebekka R.E., Guêné-Nanchen, Mélina, Jarašius, Leonas, Kull, Ain, Lilleskov, Erik A., McCullough, Kevin, Pakalne, Mara, Pu, Jiabin, Sendzikaite, Jurate, Strazdina, Liga, Rautiainen, Miina
iopscience.iop.org
June 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
Another excellent day in the field - scoping out for some very exciting #swamp research!
June 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
Start as you mean to go on…!
Day 2 of my new position at @uqam.ca and I’ve already been doing some #peatland fieldwork! Excellent day!
June 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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monkshilllab.bsky.social
🚜🌍 Just released version 1.4 of "Build-It-Yourself: Low-Cost Systems for Field Ecophysiology". Our Open Handbook for DIY Environmental Measurement Systems.

🧪 Open science and Real Worls Use & Regional Hubs (Ghana/Philippines) at the core.

🧷 Check here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
🔎 Feedback welcome!
Build-It-Yourself: Low-Cost Systems for Field Ecophysiology An Open Handbook for DIY Environmental Measurement Systems
This handbook is part of the MonksHillLab initiative, which aims to democratize science by enabling low-cost, DIY sensor development for environmental monitoring. It provides step-by-step guidance on ...
doi.org
June 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Reposted by Martina Schlaipfer
peatlandecr.bsky.social
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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peatlandecr.bsky.social
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
knowyouronion.bsky.social
I feel incredibly lucky that I get to do fieldwork in this incredible corner of the world.

Throwback to yesterday's short pitstop at the Bic national park on the way to a coastal marsh on the Gaspé peninsula #QC 🇨🇦💚

This coastline is incredible even in grey and rainy weather 🏞️🌫️

#PeatSky #PeatECR
May 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
knowyouronion.bsky.social
Something special for #FieldworkFriday this week 🤩

My fantastic colleague Léonie has created a video about the two flux tower installations we did this spring (or maybe winter rather? 🥶) for the #CARBONIQUE project.

What a pleasure to be part of this great team! 💚
#PeatECR #PeatTwitter
cpaleolab.bsky.social C-Paleo Lab @cpaleolab.bsky.social · May 16
Voici la vidéo de l'installation des tours à flux à Lac-à-La-Tortue. Félicitation à toute l'équipe pour ce travail d'une grande ampleur !

youtu.be/H0BmmfVAthQ

Here's the video of the installation of the flux towers at Lac-à-La-Tortue. Congratulations to the entire team on this major achievement!
Projet Carbonique : Installation des tours à flux - Tourbières du Lac-à-La-Tortue
YouTube video by C-PALEO LAB
youtu.be
May 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Reposted by Martina Schlaipfer
cpaleolab.bsky.social
Le terrain a repris pour l’étudiante au doctorat Joannie Beaulne qui documente la croissance des arbres dans les milieux humides boisés.🌲

Des visites sont nécessaires pour l'entretient des dendromètres qui mesurent la croissance des arbres en continu.

@sciences.uqam.ca @geotopqc.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM