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Dr Scott J. Davidson

@wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
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Assistant Professor in Wetland Carbon Dynamics and CARCLIQUE co-Research chair| #PeatColours | #peatlands | #wetlands | #tundra | Lover of #swamps | 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 He/Him | Views are my own wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com

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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 30/09/2026
🚨New paper🚨 led by Heyu Chen looking at water table, vegetation and temperature interactions controlling CO2 and CH4 fluxes across global peatlands. Glad to have made a small contribution to this work. Thanks to Heyu and the team! #peatlandsmatter #peatpaper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Water Table and Vegetation Shape Peatland <fc>CO<sub>2</sub></fc> and <fc>CH<sub>4</sub></fc> Fluxes With Water Table Modulating Temperature Sensitivity
Using 14,643 chamber observations from 285 peatland sites, we found that wetter conditions were associated with higher CH4 emissions but lower ecosystem respiration and combined CO2-equivalent emissi....
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 27/09/2026
Place aux milieux humides du Québec ! C’est ma période préférée de l’année pour observer leurs couleurs. Faites défiler les photos de quatre sites du projet Suivre la couleur des milieux humides au Québec pour voir comment ils changent au fil des saisons.
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 27/09/2026
It’s my favourite time of year on a peatland! Scroll through the photos from four #PeatColours sites below to see how their colours change through the seasons. Each box in the colour index comes from a photograph taken at that site during the year. #peatlandsmatter #peatlands
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 27/09/2026
Place aux milieux humides du Québec ! C’est ma période préférée de l’année pour observer leurs couleurs. Faites défiler les photos de quatre sites du projet Suivre la couleur des milieux humides au Québec pour voir comment ils changent au fil des saisons.
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 27/09/2026
It’s my favourite time of year on a peatland! Scroll through the photos from four #PeatColours sites below to see how their colours change through the seasons. Each box in the colour index comes from a photograph taken at that site during the year. #peatlandsmatter #peatlands
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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Now online in final version. We sampled 40 Swedish agricultural wetlands for in/outflow water chemistry, dissolved GHGs, total CH4 emissions, and sediment P fractions. We ask: what are the trade-offs in constructed wetlands for nutrient capture vs GHG emission? iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Tradeoffs between nutrient load reductions and greenhouse gas dynamics in constructed agricultural wetlands
Tradeoffs between nutrient load reductions and greenhouse gas dynamics in constructed agricultural wetlands, Futter, Martyn N, Peacock, Mike, Lannergård, Emma E, Audet, Joachim, Djodjic, Faruk, Strand, John, Liu, Tong, Geranmayeh, Pia
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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🌿Submissions for the 2027 #PeatCalendar are now open! Please send us your best shots of #flora in #wetlands and #peatlands. 💚All proceeds support early-career researchers! ✉️ peatecr@gmail.com 📸 Deadline for submission September 30, 2025
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 25/08/2026
Presenting our work on the interactions between linear disturbances and wildfire on boreal peatland carbon exchange at #IBFRA2026 We measured these sites in 2018/19 - they burned in 2023 and we went back in 2024 to the exact same plots and measured them again for 2 more summers!
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 24/08/2026
2027 Mitacs Globalink internship opportunity with the Wetland Resilience Research Group at UQAM, Montréal: Carbon dynamics, ecosystem function & resilience in Quebec wetlands. Open to international students. English/French. Apply by Sept 16: www.mitacs.ca
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Mitacs: Talent and Research Powering Innovation - Mitacs
Mitacs drives industry–academic collaboration, deploys skilled talent, and builds innovation capacity in Canada. Discover our impact.
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 24/08/2026
2027 Mitacs Globalink internship opportunity with the Wetland Resilience Research Group at UQAM, Montréal: Carbon dynamics, ecosystem function & resilience in Quebec wetlands. Open to international students. English/French. Apply by Sept 16: www.mitacs.ca
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Mitacs: Talent and Research Powering Innovation - Mitacs
Mitacs drives industry–academic collaboration, deploys skilled talent, and builds innovation capacity in Canada. Discover our impact.
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 14/08/2026
Ah fantastic! I love when people see them ‘in the wild’ - thanks for participating!
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 13/08/2026
Last week of fieldwork (for me!) this week for the summer. We installed minirhizotron tubes at the flux collars in our open and treed bog for incoming postdoc Miranda Hunter’s project looking at above- and belowground productivity/phenology Ended the trip with a nice poutine by the river !
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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Last call on this peaty special issue hosted by Sarah Cook, @tksilver.bsky.social and me. Ignore the below - deadline is 21 Aug.
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 27/07/2026
Since launching 'Suivre la couleur des milieux humides au Québec' in May '26 we've already received 525 photos from citizen scientists across our first 9 sites! Not only is this a fun project to help understand seasonal change in wetlands, but it helps raise awareness of these important ecosystems!
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 28/07/2026
Not to be outdone, Tracking the Colour of Peatlands (#PeatColours) is now in its third year. We've had over 1000 photos so far this year. I love seeing people engage with peatlands, sharing their photos and helping us understand their dynamics through the dataset that is being produced!
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 27/07/2026
Since launching 'Suivre la couleur des milieux humides au Québec' in May '26 we've already received 525 photos from citizen scientists across our first 9 sites! Not only is this a fun project to help understand seasonal change in wetlands, but it helps raise awareness of these important ecosystems!
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 23/07/2026
Left the peatlands behind this week and got to work in this beautiful freshwater marsh! My new masters student Maya will be measuring GHG fluxes using our new stackable chambers as part of the CARBONIQUE project Lots of fieldwork this summer (which always bring a little stress) but a lot of fun!
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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Attention #ECR 📣 Two weeks left to apply for this season’s #PeatNeeds funding!💰 #peatlands #wetlands #studentlife #phdlife
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 11/07/2026
Another productive week in the field doing carbon inventories and collecting peat cores (led by C Paleo lab) while my new PhD student Renaud and I got to grips with some new field spectroscopy equipment for his project. Still feel very lucky to be able to work in these beautiful landscapes
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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Check out our new paper on how land use affects water quality in lowland peatlands. Here, we go beyond C, N and P - we measured all sorts of anions and cations and heavy metals.
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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
And a 2nd paper, also led by @tksilver.bsky.social, published today in @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social, where we analysed lowland peat cores for chemistry via XRF. Heavy metals in sites near industrial centres, and more P in cores from agricultural sites. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Pollution Legacy and Land Use Influence Peat Chemistry in Temperate Lowland Peatlands
Drained grassland sites had lower organic matter content compared to semi-natural sites Peatland cores near historic industrial centers had metal enrichment Agricultural land use was also linked...
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Martina Schlaipfer @knowyouronion.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
One month left to apply for the summer round it @peatlandecr.bsky.social 2026 #PeatNeeds micro grants. It's a really easy application process, so go check it out if you are in need of a small financial boost as summer fieldwork kicks off.
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Lorna Harris, PhD @lornaharris.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Tropical #peatlands are ancient and diverse ecosystems. Vast watery peat #swamps dominated by tall palms and hardwood trees, coastal peat-forming #mangroves and marshes, and mountain Sphagnum bogs. 📢My new post on Peatpedia introduces these tropical wetlands. open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 22/06/2026
📢 We’re excited to launch: Suivre la couleur des milieux humides au Québec (Tracking the Colour of Wetlands in Quebec) as part of the CARCLIQUE Research Chair. Building on Tracking the Colour of Peatlands, the network now includes a wider range of Quebec wetlands.
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 22/06/2026
📢 Lancement du projet « Suivre la couleur des milieux humides au Québec » dans le cadre de la Chaire CARCLIQUE! Inspiré de Tracking the Colour of Peatlands, ce réseau suit désormais une diversité de milieux humides à travers le Québec.
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 22/06/2026
📢 We’re excited to launch: Suivre la couleur des milieux humides au Québec (Tracking the Colour of Wetlands in Quebec) as part of the CARCLIQUE Research Chair. Building on Tracking the Colour of Peatlands, the network now includes a wider range of Quebec wetlands.
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 22/06/2026
📢 Lancement du projet « Suivre la couleur des milieux humides au Québec » dans le cadre de la Chaire CARCLIQUE! Inspiré de Tracking the Colour of Peatlands, ce réseau suit désormais une diversité de milieux humides à travers le Québec.
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Clarice Perryman @clariceperryman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Our latest work on #methane emissions from ditches and canals draining tropical #peatlands is now online and open access at Limnology & Oceanography Letters! aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Methane emissions from canals draining tropical peatlands: Constraining temporal variability and emissions pathways
Drainage canals are potential hotspots of methane (CH4) emissions from degraded peatlands in Southeast Asia. Estimates of CH4 emissions from these canals remain scarce, and both the temporal variabil...
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 18/06/2026
Excellent few weeks setting up more peatland and swamp sites for my new PhD student and incoming postdoc. Rained off today (with a tornado! warning!) Big shout out to the team!
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Julie Talbot @julietalbot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I'm looking for a post-doc to work on the interaction between past hydrological changes and vegetation in a disturbed peatland, using paleoecological and modelling approaches. The post-doc duration is 18 months and start date is any time before Jan 2027. DM if you are interested / have questions! 🌿🧪
These are cute drosera plants. They are carnivorous and live in peatlands. The picture shows these red plants that have a rounded  shape and sticky tentacles. They are about 3 cm high.
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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Calling all peaty people. Still time to submit to our special issue on peatlands. Details below. Free free to DM/email me if you want to ask any questions.
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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
That exciting moment when you first put (metaphorical) pen to paper and start writing a new manuscript. This one is all about the Swedish mountain lake sampling I did a few years back, also featuring @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 05/06/2026
Might be quite grizzly for some - but a pretty fascinating video from one of our field sites of a HUGE snapping turtle eating a beaver (QC, Canada)
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 05/06/2026
Excited to start expanding our peatland phenology work with our new toy = A ChromoMapper from PyrOptik (an affordable hyperspectral imaging system: 400 - 950nm) Can’t wait to take it for a spin out on our sites.
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 02/06/2026
Happy World Peatlands Day ! Another opportunity to promote the #PeatColours project. It’s been such a brilliant way to engage with the public on the importance of these beautiful landscapes peatcolours.github.io/tracking.html #worldpeatlandsday
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Monica Morrison @monicamorrisong.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
@cgu-ugc.bsky.social meeting in Halifax with session on EDI: “community” vs “citizen” science and defining expertise @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Pleased to see this out: 'Assessing the Response of Blanket Peatlands to Climate Change Using the DigiBog Model and Winter's Concept of the “Hydrologic Landscape”'. Available open access here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Assessing the Response of Blanket Peatlands to Climate Change Using the DigiBog Model and Winter's Concept of the “Hydrologic Landscape”
Simulations of a blanket peatland continue accumulating carbon until 2100 under all climate scenarios Topographic wetness correlates with peat thickness but does not fully explain accumulation pa...
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 17/05/2026
Proud to co-lead the CARCLIQUE Quebec Research Chair with Michelle Garneau, advancing research on wetlands, carbon & nature-based climate solutions. Huge thanks to our MELCCFP partners and Léonie, our research coordinator! Photos from last Thursday’s launch! carclique.uqam.ca
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 17/05/2026
Proud to co-lead the CARCLIQUE Quebec Research Chair with Michelle Garneau, advancing research on wetlands, carbon & nature-based climate solutions. Huge thanks to our MELCCFP partners and Léonie, our research coordinator! Photos from last Thursday’s launch! carclique.uqam.ca
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 15/05/2026
The last few weeks have been a tour of southern Quebec’s beautiful boardwalks and wetlands
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 08/05/2026
It’s great to have my PhD student @eduley.bsky.social visiting me from the UK this week! Even better is she gave an excellent talk on her projects this afternoon at our midi-aquatique seminar series @biologieuqam.bsky.social
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 06/05/2026
2 more sites (bog and a fen) instrumented for our new project yesterday!
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Martina Schlaipfer @knowyouronion.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Very happy I got to present our project CARBONIQUE at #EGU26 today. #PeatSky #wetlands #fluxnet #Quebec 🇨🇦
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Alice Milner @alicemmilner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We've written a piece for @uk.theconversation.com accompanying our #PeatQuest study identifying priority questions in #peatland science, explaining how the questions aren't just technical priorities, but encompass communities, livelihoods, power and fairness. theconversation.com/peatlands-ar...
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Peatlands are vital for tackling climate change, yet scientists still haven’t found them all
Peatlands are central to climate change, yet basic questions remain unanswered. A global research community has mapped out what we most urgently need to know.
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Alice Milner @alicemmilner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Peatland landscape with scattered trees
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 28/04/2026
Excellente journée sur le terrain à mettre en place un nouveau projet passionnant au Parc national de Frontenac. Excellent day in the field setting up an exciting new project at Parc national du Frontenac. What a beautiful peatland!
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 23/04/2026
🚨 New paper with Percy Korsah and @wetland-ghg.bsky.social Increased methane emissions from boreal #peatlands following linear disturbances www.nature.com/articles/s43... Photo: peatland with seismic line running across it (+ impact of 2023 wildfire in the background. Photo credit: Melanie Bird)
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BES Climate Change @besclimate.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
On 8th May, our coffee morning is in collaboration with @bes-peatlandsgroup.bsky.social group! Get excited about learning how peatlands and wetlands are affected and how they can help fight climate change! When and where: 10-11 am GMT 8th May on Zoom Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 13/04/2026
Photos rolling in for #PeatColours 250+ submissions across all sites in 2026 — great to see! Explore the interactive map (updated regularly): peatcolours.github.io/tracking.html 📍 Kauhaneva-Pohjankangas 🇫🇮 📍 Forsinard Flows 📍 Cope Hut, Alpine NP 🇦🇺 📍 Torronsuo 🇫🇮 New project launching soon in 🇨🇦 👀
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 01/04/2026
If you’re into the #occult or all things #witchcraft - please check out @jerrymoorecostume.bsky.social first exhibition in his digital Museum of Contemporary Ritual and Witchcraft called The Art Magical. mcrwmuseum.com/current-exhi...
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