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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 6h

8 weeks to when we award the 2026 Nobel Peat Prize. Do you have a fave peat or #peatland paper this year? @nobel-water.bsky.social

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Introducing the Peat Moisture Code for #wildfire! The PMC integrates #peatlands into the next generation of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System.

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The MAC Ecohydrology Lab is hosting an international peat fire workshop this week at NOBEL @nobel-water.bsky.social. Ironically, several of Belgium's peat fire experts will be attending while Belgium experiences its largest wildfire on record (in the High Fens peatland). @jmortelmans.bsky.social

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This podcast with Canada’s top wildfire expert @mikeflannigan.bsky.social on Canadian wildfires is an absolute must listen! “We should be more proactive” “having an early warning system -- we do it for hurricanes. Why don't we do it for fire?” #wildfire

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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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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Our 2026 fire season was quiet, and just like the rapid transition from winter to summer (bypassing spring) in much Canada, our fire season went from quiet to crazy full on. Rapid increase in area burned (and smoke) from fires in the NWT and QC and more recently ON. See hot spot graph below

Estimated area burned in Canada from satellite hot spots
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/en/summary

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At #biogeomon a collaegue called our 2015 hydrological feedbacks paper a peatlands classic. So that got me thinking what dozen or so papers would be on the 'must read' for #peatland researchers. I'll start with one of my faves. @andybairdj.bsky.social Belyea and Baird, 2006 (Ecol. Mongr.)

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A third of a century ago I did my PhD research at SLU in Umeå on the carbon balance of a poor fen. So there was lots of emotions attending #biogeomon last week for my visit first to SLU Forest Sciences since 1994. Highlight of the week was visiting #KrycklanCatchment for the first time #peatlands

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Earlier this week I gave a seminar on #peatland #wildfire and led a workshop on peatland #ecohydrology at the SLU Dept. of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment in Uppsala. Six! #NobelPeatPrize laureates (incl the legendary Håkan Rydin) attended. We had great peaty discussions and I learned so much.

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Hey #EGU26! Got Peat? The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab has a talk and poster in the HS10.3 Peatland hydrology session on Friday. #PeatSky #peatlands #ecohydrology #resilience #earlywarningsignals Join us for a discussion on early warning signals in peatland ecosystems at poster A.64

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I’m visiting the SLU Dept. of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment in Uppsala today and saw this on a bookshelf. The dept is home to our 2024 and 2025 #NobelPeatPrize laureates. #peatland

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

That feeling when your nerdy ecohydrology knowledge of both Newtonian mechanics and peatland vegetation combine to solve the Saturday NYT connections puzzle in record time 🤓

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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A new peat paper in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social enaccess.bsky.social Problem is, it's chock-full of AI generated references, including several papers with my name on that don't exist. How did the reviewers not spot this? www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/16...

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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 · 04/02/2026

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 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Rattlesnakes overwinter in east Georgian Bay #peatland hummocks

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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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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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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 30/12/2025

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

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Annual Christmas GPS map art with Emma! Santa Gnome / Tomtenisse

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

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. 1/n research.mcmaster.ca/home/support...

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Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Nominees - Research & Innovation

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

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

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Greg Verkaik @gregverkaik.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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!

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Kyra Simone @sciencewithkyra.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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

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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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Eliza Maher Hasselquist @emhasselquist.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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...

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

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Kyra Simone @sciencewithkyra.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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.

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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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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 · 03/12/2025

Just spent a wonderful few days with #peatland researchers at the University of Waikato visiting pristine, drained, and burned NZ peatlands and discussing all things peat, fire, LOTR, water use efficiency, and optimality. Learned lots. Will be there and back again.

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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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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Hydrology Paper of the Day @peatofmind.bsky.social on why carbon cycles are linked to Sphagnum mosses: the process of fire and the primary importance of peat depth in peatlands; modelling of moisture stress by the HYDRUS-1D model; and characterizing processes in the NOBEL water observatory, Ontario

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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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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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Is this the moment Canada gets serious about science and the economy?

The federal budget includes $1.7-billion to attract international researchers and support Canadian R&D and IP protections

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John Hammond @hydrohammond.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I’m still figuring out bluesky… but with the goal of more easily finding information I’m interested in, I started a feed and associated starter pack for Hydrological Processes as well as Hydrological Extremes. Please let me know if you want to be added to the starter pack! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Our latest #PeatPaper published in Hydrological Processes and led by MSc student Maia Moore! “Ecohydrological Controls on Post-Fire Sphagnum Moss Recovery in Boreal Shield Peatlands” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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