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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Line Rochefort on this well deserved recognition. I can’t think of anybody in the World of Peatlands more deserving. Because of Line’s innovative restoration research, training, and collaborations legacy we know how to restore the carbon sink function of degraded #peatlands!

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Maria Strack @wetland-ghg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Had a great trip to Sudbury to give this year’s Watershed Lecture @laurentianu.bsky.social at the Vale Living with Lakes Centre. Also got to visit one of the peatland restoration projects near campus with @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social

A sculpture on a peregrine falcon sitting on a rock.

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 08/09/2026

that took too long. Ref#225 is still incorrect.

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Roxane Andersen at UHI Thurso has written a wonderful kids short story about dragons and blanket bogs and peat fires.

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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 · 12/08/2026

Peatland 234 after the snow squalls in NOBEL @nobel-water.bsky.social in eastern Georgian Bay. These peatlands are critical overwintering species at risk habitat for Ontario’s only venomous snake - the Massassauga Rattlesnake

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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 · 17/06/2026

maybe the best of them all as Eville’s back of the envelope calculation in that paper aligns with the best multi year EC measurements for peatland C fluxes made decades later

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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.)

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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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 · 21/05/2026

As a fan of both digibog and Winter’s hydrological landscape I’m really excited to see this paper published too. Just gave it a quick read. Great peaty science. It’s gotta be a #NobelPeatPrize contender! 😊

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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 · 11/05/2026

cool findings. I suspect rewetted area width necessary to act as fire break could be estimated for various fuel loads and wind speeds.

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

and also check out Emma Wegener's (Guelph) poster A.63 on peatland hydrology, wildfire, and smoke that members of our lab contributed to. #peatland #wildfire #smoke #EGU26

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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 · 11/04/2026

Official #NobelPeatPrize award winner display signs sent to Sweden.

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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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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Just noticed I’m on a fictitious paper too.

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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 · 03/03/2026

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

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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 · 10/02/2026

very 1986 Depeche Mode Black Celebration’esque.

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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

Feel free to reach out to me or my colleagues with any questions if you want to join SEES. #AcademicJobs #ClimateResilience #AI #EnvironmentalScience #ArcticResearch 4/4

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