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
An enjoyable few hours touring some Scottish beaver wetlands with @dralanlaw.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
An enjoyable few hours touring some Scottish beaver wetlands with @dralanlaw.bsky.social
Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...
In the lab today - three boxes of water samples (two from UK lowland peat ditches, one from South African lakes) to run for UV-vis today, to give data on dissolved organic matter.
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
In the lab today - three boxes of water samples (two from UK lowland peat ditches, one from South African lakes) to run for UV-vis today, to give data on dissolved organic matter.
And today our MSc students took their bog samples into the lab - measuring N, P and DOM composition in water, and pH and EC in soil extracts.
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
And today our MSc students took their bog samples into the lab - measuring N, P and DOM composition in water, and pH and EC in soil extracts.
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...