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Meg Schmidt 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them)

@smilingmegs.bsky.social

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PhD candidate @GhgLab @GeogWaterloo studying #greenhousegases in #peatland #swamps. MSc in #peatlandrestoration. #fibro & #mentalhealth warrior. 🐈‍⬛ & 🪴 mom Rewilding & native plant education and gardening 🌼🌱🐝🐞🦋🐸🦉🐦‍⬛

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Meg Schmidt 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @smilingmegs.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Excited to share the first publication from my PhD work on swamps! We conducted a synoptic study of 12 swamps across southern Ontario looking at carbon pools and fluxes. doi.org/10.19189/001...

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Quantifying Carbon Pools and Fluxes in Southern Ontario Temperate Swamps | Published in Mires and Peat

By Megan A. Schmidt, Veronica Santia & 3 more. Article 32.31: The North American definition of swamp disregards soil type, meaning some swamps also meet the definition of peatlands. This study investi...

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Meg Schmidt 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @smilingmegs.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

So at noon we find out that the last six months was the joke, right? ... ... Right?!!

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Meg Schmidt 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @smilingmegs.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Some beautiful winter fluxing in the swamps over the last few weeks

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Meg Schmidt 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @smilingmegs.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Whether it's the bog, fen, swamp, or urban wetland, we love to get fluxy 😁

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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 16/05/2024

New open-access #SwampScience Carbon stocks and fluxes from a boreal conifer swamp: filling a knowledge gap for understanding the boreal C cycle agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Carbon Stocks and Fluxes From a Boreal Conifer Swamp: Filling a Knowledge Gap for Understanding the Boreal C Cycle

<em>Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences</em> is an AGU journal publishing papers on the biogeosciences of the Earth system and the extension of this research to planetary studies.

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Meg Schmidt 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @smilingmegs.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

The swamps are coming alive again

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Meg Schmidt 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @smilingmegs.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Happy meow-loween from the peatland cats, Black Spruce and Larch!

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Meg Schmidt 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @smilingmegs.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Then ---> now 2017, 3rd yr undergrad, the summer that started it all w/ @kenzco4.bsky.social in AB & NWT. 2023, 3rd yr PhD, the swamp project that just keeps growing w/ @wetland-ghg.bsky.social in southern ON. Thankful for these two amazing women for taking a chance and believing in me.

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Meg Schmidt 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @smilingmegs.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Taking a nervous system reset break with my wonderfully chaotic native gardens. Love this corner.

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Meg Schmidt 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @smilingmegs.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Check in on your queer friends and family today 💔🏳️‍🌈

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Meg Schmidt 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @smilingmegs.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Super exciting Friday evening in the lab #gradlife

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Meg Schmidt 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @smilingmegs.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Someone come work in the swamps with me and tell me about the hydrology!! Wettest day yet after a big storm last night - 45 cm at the collar in the pool!

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Meg Schmidt 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @smilingmegs.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Enjoying the colours and visitors in my native gardens.

Bottom right is a swamp aster flower, purple with yellow center, in focus with a background of blurred pink Joe pye weed and white boneset flowers and lots of green leaves.

A monarch butterfly feeds from a white echinaccea flower with more flowers blurred on the foreground

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