Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky
@queenofpeat.bsky.social
Professor, scientist, mom. Chaser of wildfires and permafrost thaw. I love bogs and want you to join me.
I spoke to my deep passion of bogs and peatlands in this TEDx talk. Will you join me in becoming a bog champion? m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...
Bogs are real superheroes, cast as villains | Dr. Merritt Turetsky | TEDxBoulder
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I spoke to my deep passion of bogs and peatlands in this TEDx talk. Will you join me in becoming a bog champion? m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...
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For the #canvas25 William H. Patrick, Jr. Memorial Lectureship, @queenofpeat.bsky.social is detailing the interplay between water, ecology, and CO2 and methane emissions in the long-term Alaska Peatland Experiment.
www.lter.uaf.edu/research/stu...
www.lter.uaf.edu/research/stu...
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
For the #canvas25 William H. Patrick, Jr. Memorial Lectureship, @queenofpeat.bsky.social is detailing the interplay between water, ecology, and CO2 and methane emissions in the long-term Alaska Peatland Experiment.
www.lter.uaf.edu/research/stu...
www.lter.uaf.edu/research/stu...
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Here's the study of the varying ecological effects of zombie fires in Canada and Alaska that @queenofpeat.bsky.social is detailing at #canvas25:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Overwintering fires can occur in both peatlands and upland forests with varying ecological impacts - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Field measurements of fires burning over winter at 20 sites in the Northwest Territories of Canada and in Alaska find that such fires occur in both peatlands and upland forests, and provide informatio...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Here's the study of the varying ecological effects of zombie fires in Canada and Alaska that @queenofpeat.bsky.social is detailing at #canvas25:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Do you love bogs and Halloween? If so, please follow and share this thread to explore the eerie, the dark and the supernatural side of bog ecosystems. BogBoo. 1/
You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Do you love bogs and Halloween? If so, please follow and share this thread to explore the eerie, the dark and the supernatural side of bog ecosystems. BogBoo. 1/
You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
Do you love bogs and Halloween? If so, please follow and share this thread to explore the eerie, the dark and the supernatural side of bog ecosystems. BogBoo. 1/
You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Do you love bogs and Halloween? If so, please follow and share this thread to explore the eerie, the dark and the supernatural side of bog ecosystems. BogBoo. 1/
You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
I am leading graduate students through a discussion on effective writing practices. How do you push through writer’s block when it hits you? Please share your tips!
October 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I am leading graduate students through a discussion on effective writing practices. How do you push through writer’s block when it hits you? Please share your tips!
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Field demo from rapidly changing northern ecosystems. This shows a violent stream of methane bubbles venting through thawing permafrost soils to the sky. Video credit to Tom Douglas and Torre Jorgenson. Curious bog dog is a Friday bonus.
October 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Field demo from rapidly changing northern ecosystems. This shows a violent stream of methane bubbles venting through thawing permafrost soils to the sky. Video credit to Tom Douglas and Torre Jorgenson. Curious bog dog is a Friday bonus.
Field demo from rapidly changing northern ecosystems. This shows a violent stream of methane bubbles venting through thawing permafrost soils to the sky. Video credit to Tom Douglas and Torre Jorgenson. Curious bog dog is a Friday bonus.
October 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Field demo from rapidly changing northern ecosystems. This shows a violent stream of methane bubbles venting through thawing permafrost soils to the sky. Video credit to Tom Douglas and Torre Jorgenson. Curious bog dog is a Friday bonus.
Excited to be a speaker at TEDx Boulder Dreams and Reality this Sunday. Teaser: My dream is to live in a world that embraces boglands as sacred places. The reality is we live in a world intent on destroying them. But we can fight back and become bog champions. tedxboulder.com/speakers/dre...
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September 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Excited to be a speaker at TEDx Boulder Dreams and Reality this Sunday. Teaser: My dream is to live in a world that embraces boglands as sacred places. The reality is we live in a world intent on destroying them. But we can fight back and become bog champions. tedxboulder.com/speakers/dre...
Remembering my dear friend and trusted field partner on all things Sphagnum and peat, Teresa Hollingsworth (1975-2025). May your memory cross into the bogs of forever.
September 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Remembering my dear friend and trusted field partner on all things Sphagnum and peat, Teresa Hollingsworth (1975-2025). May your memory cross into the bogs of forever.
Count the mosquitos. Still my happy place with a never ending tundra of peat, moss, and cotton grass.
August 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Count the mosquitos. Still my happy place with a never ending tundra of peat, moss, and cotton grass.
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Hydrology Paper of the Day @queenofpeat.bsky.social and colleagues on fast thawing phenomena and permafrost processes: quantitatively defining "abrupt thaw" based on ecosystem change and spatial scale; situating thaw in the context of the carbon cycle; models; and decision tree classification.
Hot off the presses! Abrupt permafrost thaw is a critical climate feedback but is poorly defined & understood. In an awesome collaboration between my team & the Permafrost Carbon Network, PhD student Hailey Webb provides a formal definition to guide future studies. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A Review of Abrupt Permafrost Thaw: Definitions, Usage, and a Proposed Conceptual Framework - Current Climate Change Reports
Purpose of Review We review how ‘abrupt thaw’ has been used in published studies, compare these definitions to abrupt processes in other Earth science disciplines, and provide a definitive framework f...
link.springer.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @queenofpeat.bsky.social and colleagues on fast thawing phenomena and permafrost processes: quantitatively defining "abrupt thaw" based on ecosystem change and spatial scale; situating thaw in the context of the carbon cycle; models; and decision tree classification.
Reposted by Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky
What do we mean by abrupt permafrost thaw? This site above the permafrost tunnel in Alaska had no evidence of a sinkhole in this spot last fall. This thermokarst pit formed in the past several months, large enough for Hailey Webb, who made the discovery, to climb down into it.
July 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What do we mean by abrupt permafrost thaw? This site above the permafrost tunnel in Alaska had no evidence of a sinkhole in this spot last fall. This thermokarst pit formed in the past several months, large enough for Hailey Webb, who made the discovery, to climb down into it.
What do we mean by abrupt permafrost thaw? This site above the permafrost tunnel in Alaska had no evidence of a sinkhole in this spot last fall. This thermokarst pit formed in the past several months, large enough for Hailey Webb, who made the discovery, to climb down into it.
July 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What do we mean by abrupt permafrost thaw? This site above the permafrost tunnel in Alaska had no evidence of a sinkhole in this spot last fall. This thermokarst pit formed in the past several months, large enough for Hailey Webb, who made the discovery, to climb down into it.
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Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.
July 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.
Reposted by Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky
July 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.
July 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.
Reposted by Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky
Hot off the presses! Abrupt permafrost thaw is a critical climate feedback but is poorly defined & understood. In an awesome collaboration between my team & the Permafrost Carbon Network, PhD student Hailey Webb provides a formal definition to guide future studies. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A Review of Abrupt Permafrost Thaw: Definitions, Usage, and a Proposed Conceptual Framework - Current Climate Change Reports
Purpose of Review We review how ‘abrupt thaw’ has been used in published studies, compare these definitions to abrupt processes in other Earth science disciplines, and provide a definitive framework f...
link.springer.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Hot off the presses! Abrupt permafrost thaw is a critical climate feedback but is poorly defined & understood. In an awesome collaboration between my team & the Permafrost Carbon Network, PhD student Hailey Webb provides a formal definition to guide future studies. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New paper led by PhD student Will Cox makes 2 discoveries: 1) understory plants predict early onset of abrupt permafrost thaw. 2) early stages of abrupt thaw are associated with high methane release, not accounted for in previous models or frameworks. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Plant Community Shifts as Early Indicators of Abrupt Permafrost Thaw and Associated Carbon Release in an Interior Alaskan Peatland
Emerging permafrost thaw features can be identified by predictable species turnover in the plant community within the first decade of thaw
Methane emissions double during early onset of boreal pe...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
New paper led by PhD student Will Cox makes 2 discoveries: 1) understory plants predict early onset of abrupt permafrost thaw. 2) early stages of abrupt thaw are associated with high methane release, not accounted for in previous models or frameworks. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Hot off the presses! Abrupt permafrost thaw is a critical climate feedback but is poorly defined & understood. In an awesome collaboration between my team & the Permafrost Carbon Network, PhD student Hailey Webb provides a formal definition to guide future studies. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A Review of Abrupt Permafrost Thaw: Definitions, Usage, and a Proposed Conceptual Framework - Current Climate Change Reports
Purpose of Review We review how ‘abrupt thaw’ has been used in published studies, compare these definitions to abrupt processes in other Earth science disciplines, and provide a definitive framework f...
link.springer.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Hot off the presses! Abrupt permafrost thaw is a critical climate feedback but is poorly defined & understood. In an awesome collaboration between my team & the Permafrost Carbon Network, PhD student Hailey Webb provides a formal definition to guide future studies. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Sphagnum mosses are fascinating from physiology, ecology, and climate perspectives. I'm especially proud of this @newphyt.bsky.social paper meant to inspire new research on ecoevolution and biodiversity. Check out the incredible cover art by Blanka Aguero! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Sphagnum mosses are fascinating from physiology, ecology, and climate perspectives. I'm especially proud of this @newphyt.bsky.social paper meant to inspire new research on ecoevolution and biodiversity. Check out the incredible cover art by Blanka Aguero! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Sphagnum mosses are fascinating from physiology, ecology, and climate perspectives. I'm especially proud of this @newphyt.bsky.social paper meant to inspire new research on ecoevolution and biodiversity. Check out the incredible cover art by Blanka Aguero! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Sphagnum mosses are fascinating from physiology, ecology, and climate perspectives. I'm especially proud of this @newphyt.bsky.social paper meant to inspire new research on ecoevolution and biodiversity. Check out the incredible cover art by Blanka Aguero! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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#TansleyReview: The challenging but unique eco-evolutionary aspects of #SphagnumMoss
@queenofpeat.bsky.social, et al. 👇
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July 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
#TansleyReview: The challenging but unique eco-evolutionary aspects of #SphagnumMoss
@queenofpeat.bsky.social, et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
@queenofpeat.bsky.social, et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue
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Hydrology Paper of the Day @mparrington.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @jmccartygeo.bsky.social on climate change, Arctic and high-latitude wildfires: risk, permafrost processes, air quality and fire emissions; remote sensing data products; and monitoring.
First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @mparrington.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @jmccartygeo.bsky.social on climate change, Arctic and high-latitude wildfires: risk, permafrost processes, air quality and fire emissions; remote sensing data products; and monitoring.