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Nibi (Water) Observatory for Boreal Ecohydrological Landscapes (NOBEL) - An Observatory for Watersheds and Wetlands in the Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere #hydrology #wetlands

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Greg Verkaik @gregverkaik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Excited to share the new daily Peat Moisture Code published in MethodsX! This is a step towards integrating peatlands into the CFFDRS to better represent fire danger in peatlands by accounting for key mechanisms controlling peat moisture and fire potential. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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NOBEL - Nibi (Water) Observatory @nobel-water.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A great @gwfobservatories.bsky.social tour of the NOBEL today!
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NOBEL - Nibi (Water) Observatory @nobel-water.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay from NOBEL - home of the #NobelPeatPrize
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Peatland Ecology Research Group (PERG) @gret-perg.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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. shorturl.at/n67Nb
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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...
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 16/02/2026
🚨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... Please share!
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 11/02/2026
🚨 #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...
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Happy #WorldWetlandsDay! Photo: “After the Squalls” (Peatland 234 at the NOBEL Water and Carbon Observatory @nobel-water.bsky.social) www.worldwetlandsday.org
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Arsh Grewal @akgrewal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I'm currently looking for an MSc student to characterize water ages and storage in cold catchments. Several potential projects available, and I will support students who want to develop their own! If interested, please reach out soon at akgrewal@usask.ca, as Sept 2026 app deadlines are approaching!
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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.
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1/3
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
2025 #NobelPeatPrize (Outreach) Peat Colours! The “Tracking the Colours of Peatlands” outreach and citizen science initiative explores and communicates peatland science through peat pics. Congrats @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com The #NobelPeatPrize (McMaster) will be announced Dec 10th.
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Winner of the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize for top McMaster peat paper is Furukawa et al. accepted earlier today in Ecohydrology! Almost four years to put this together. A complete lab group effort! Abstract attached. #SurvivalOfTheDeepest The #NobelPeatPrize (International) will be announced Dec. 11th
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Colin McCarter @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Get your abstracts ready for the CGU/IAH-CNC Meeting May 24-27 in Halifax, NS. Deadline is January 10th! If you study streams, wetlands, forests, land-air fluxes, GHGs, carbon, soils, pollution, or nature-based climate solutions submit to exciting Biogeosciences sessions: tinyurl.com/CGUBGS2026
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Here Be Sphagnums! Sphagnum moss is generally resistant to burning 🔥 Even in a recent wildfire at the base of the Mt. Doom 🌋 💍 Sphagnum >> Sauron #NZPeatTour
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! We encourage the #peatland community to give each of these wonderful papers a read. The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 25/11/2025
Heading to the Canadian Geophysical Union annual meeting 2026 in Halifax? We’re convening a session: From Data to Solutions on distributed data + network science for climate action in Canada. Abstracts due 10 Jan 2026 - all welcome to submit. www.meet-here.ca/cgu-iah_2026...
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Paul J. Morris @peatbloke.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
For over 15 years the McMaster Ecohydro Lab has awarded the #NobelPeatPrize to the authors of the best peatland or peat paper of the year. It’s that time of year again where we review papers and finalize a list of nominees. Do you have a fave paper for 2025 you would like us to consider?
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Global Water Futures Observatories @gwfobservatories.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New paper out: The Canadian Global Water Futures programme – creation, foundation, and operation As GWF concluded this year, the article looks back at how the program was built, its achievements (2,000+ publications, 3,100+ talks), and lessons for future water research in Canada & globally.
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The Canadian Global water Futures programme – creation, foundation, and operation
The world is entering an era of immense water-related threats, from floods, droughts, and other extreme events to degradation of water quality and severe pressure on aquatic ecosystems, increasing ...
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
New #PeatPaper by Lees et al. in #HydrologicalProcesses "The Sponge Analogy Problem: Moving Towards Clearer Communication of Peatland Hydrological Processes" #peatlands #hydrology #scicomm onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Check out our new paper "Ecohydrological drivers of Boreal Shield peatland fire refugia" in Ecohydrology. Authors: Alex Tekatch, Chantel Markle, Sophie Wilkinson, Paul Moore, @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social, @peatofmind.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Peatland Ecology Research Group (PERG) @gret-perg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🌍 Big news in peatland science! 5 current & former PERG researchers are in the global top 10 for peatland restoration! 🌿 🏆 Shoutout to Line Rochefort #1 worldwide! 💥 @ulaval.ca also ranks #1 globally! 📖 Read: shorturl.at/uJl6A #Peatlands #PeatSky @wetland-ghg.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social
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A global development and dynamics of peatland restoration: a bibliometric analysis
Peatland ecosystems play a critical role in conservation of biodiversity and climate regulation, but face ongoing degradation from land-use change, mi…
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
It's official! Line Rochefort is the Queen of #Peatland #Restoration! Another metric of her legacy. 5 of the 6 most productive peat researchers (# articles fractionalized) were, or are, members of the research group she started in the 90s. #1 Rochefort #2 Strack #3 Price #5 Andersen #6 Waddington
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 18/06/2025
“They're missing the whole point in that we're seeing more fires, a longer fire season, more intense fires, more severe fires, because the climate is changing due to human activities,” said fire expert Mike Flannigan. “It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”
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Colin McCarter @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Boreal wildfires are, yet again, raging near historical smelting toxic metal pollution sources. The peatlands, forests, and lakes near Flin Flon MB have elevated toxic metals (e.g. Hg, As, Pb) that current wildfires can remobilize to our air, land, and water (similar to tinyurl.com/yv7usr6b). 1/2
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Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape - IOPscienceSearch
Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape, Sutton, O F, McCarter, C P R, Waddington, J M
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Peatlands as wildfire refugia. #Peatlands #PeatSky #wildfire @nobel-water.bsky.social
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Field photo: “It’s time to draw a line in the sand umm errr Sphagnum” #Peatlands #PeatSky #wildfire @nobel-water.bsky.social
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
New #PeatPaper led by Owen Sutton with @peatbloke.bsky.social and others #peatlands Shallow peatlands as sentinels of climate change
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Kyra Simone @sciencewithkyra.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Really grateful that I had the chance to learn from Gracie & help out with this Georgian Bay Biosphere video!
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Kyra Simone @sciencewithkyra.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab, we've been studying how #moss transplants can help to kickstart vegetation recovery after a severe #wildfire. @nobel-water.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social #drone
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Global Water Futures Observatories @gwfobservatories.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"We need to coordinate & fund water observations & research to restore our strength & prepare for a future that will require all the water intelligence ... so that we can defend our water security against challenges posed by climate, our activities, and from our neighbours." gwfo.ca/documents/ht...
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
NOBEL Site 234 @nobel-water.bsky.social (Eastern Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada) Can you spot the groundwater well, datalogger, and solar panel?
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Colin McCarter @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Christmas day publication (a first for me!) on how industrial smelters' impact hydrophysical peat properties and the implications for wildfires, restoration, and drought! A great collab with @peatofmind.bsky.social , @gregverkaik.bsky.social , and others! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Hydrophysical Properties of Peat in Undisturbed and Smelter‐Impacted Peatlands: Implications for Moss Recovery, Drought and Wildfire
Compared to undisturbed peat, the legacy of atmospherically deposited toxic metals from mining and smelter activities has altered peat hydrophysical properties rendering them more susceptible to peat...
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NOBEL - Nibi (Water) Observatory @nobel-water.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
It’s snow squall season in NOBEL!
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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
The McMaster Ecohydrology presents our 2024 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! #PeatPaper themes: peatland patterns, public perception, fire and metals, mercury, and fire weather Winner announced Dec 5th!
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NOBEL - Nibi (Water) Observatory @nobel-water.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
We are now on BlueSky! #wetlands #hydrology Nibi (Water) Observatory for Boreal Ecohydrological Landscapes (NOBEL) www.mcmasterecohydrology.ca/nobel.html
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NOBEL - Nibi (Water) Observatory @nobel-water.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
A great day for fieldwork in the Georgian Bay Biosphere Mnidoo Gamii. Our NOBEL water observatory is part of the Global Water Futures network of observatories. www.mcmasterecohydrology.ca/nobel.html
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