Teresa Silverthorn
@tksilver.bsky.social
She/her. Postdoc @ Simon Fraser University @sfu.ca Ecologist and biogeochemist 💧🌱
Happy World Wetlands Day!
Photos from some beautiful Swedish wetlands to brighten your feed 🌱💧
Photos from some beautiful Swedish wetlands to brighten your feed 🌱💧
February 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Happy World Wetlands Day!
Photos from some beautiful Swedish wetlands to brighten your feed 🌱💧
Photos from some beautiful Swedish wetlands to brighten your feed 🌱💧
Check out our new article in The Conversation highlighting strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ditches and canals 💦 🌱🚜 @peatymike.bsky.social @jpritson.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-to-cut-h...
How to cut harmful emissions from ditches and canals – new research
Ditches and canals can be climate heroes.
theconversation.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Check out our new article in The Conversation highlighting strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ditches and canals 💦 🌱🚜 @peatymike.bsky.social @jpritson.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-to-cut-h...
Do you work on peatland carbon, hydrology, biodiversity, or restoration? We’d love to see your research in our Special collection for Sustainable Environment! 💧🌿🧪📈
January 21, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Do you work on peatland carbon, hydrology, biodiversity, or restoration? We’d love to see your research in our Special collection for Sustainable Environment! 💧🌿🧪📈
Reposted by Teresa Silverthorn
Our new ditch GHG paper now online in final view. A great team effort led by @tksilver.bsky.social with contributions from an all-star cast of supporting authors.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
January 14, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Our new ditch GHG paper now online in final view. A great team effort led by @tksilver.bsky.social with contributions from an all-star cast of supporting authors.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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📣New PhD studentship 📣
We're advertising a fully funded PhD studentship in the 'Cultural ecosystem services of dry riverbeds in rural landscapes'. To view the project, please see www.keele.ac.uk/surf/current... Deadline is the 23rd March 2026. Open to UK and international students.
We're advertising a fully funded PhD studentship in the 'Cultural ecosystem services of dry riverbeds in rural landscapes'. To view the project, please see www.keele.ac.uk/surf/current... Deadline is the 23rd March 2026. Open to UK and international students.
January 12, 2026 at 11:14 AM
📣New PhD studentship 📣
We're advertising a fully funded PhD studentship in the 'Cultural ecosystem services of dry riverbeds in rural landscapes'. To view the project, please see www.keele.ac.uk/surf/current... Deadline is the 23rd March 2026. Open to UK and international students.
We're advertising a fully funded PhD studentship in the 'Cultural ecosystem services of dry riverbeds in rural landscapes'. To view the project, please see www.keele.ac.uk/surf/current... Deadline is the 23rd March 2026. Open to UK and international students.
Very excited that this paper has now been accepted! It was great to collaborate with this bunch of bright and thoughtful scientists. I think we managed to fit a lot of ideas about ditch GHG accounting and mitigation in a short perspective! 🤗 Stoked to share it soon!
Just submitted our collaborative perspective piece! 🎉 It‘s all about improving accounting and mitigation of GHG emissions from ditches—sparked by the great presentations and discussions at our ditch symposium! 📈🧪👩🔬🌍
What's the collective noun for a group of ditch scientists?
December 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Very excited that this paper has now been accepted! It was great to collaborate with this bunch of bright and thoughtful scientists. I think we managed to fit a lot of ideas about ditch GHG accounting and mitigation in a short perspective! 🤗 Stoked to share it soon!
Reposted by Teresa Silverthorn
Putting greenhouse gas emissions numbers into context can be hard. The numbers are large, unfamiliar, and not intuitive.
That's why Project Drawdown and a team at the University of San Francisco collaborated to create a new web tool -- Carbon in Context.
www.carbonincontext.com
That's why Project Drawdown and a team at the University of San Francisco collaborated to create a new web tool -- Carbon in Context.
www.carbonincontext.com
Carbon in Context
www.carbonincontext.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Putting greenhouse gas emissions numbers into context can be hard. The numbers are large, unfamiliar, and not intuitive.
That's why Project Drawdown and a team at the University of San Francisco collaborated to create a new web tool -- Carbon in Context.
www.carbonincontext.com
That's why Project Drawdown and a team at the University of San Francisco collaborated to create a new web tool -- Carbon in Context.
www.carbonincontext.com
Reposted by Teresa Silverthorn
Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...
Reposted by Teresa Silverthorn
Attn graduate and undergraduate students! 🚨 🪲 🦋🚨 New research funding opportunity from @xercessociety.bsky.social! $5000; deadline is Jan 7 2026. xerces.org/bandrosky
Deborah BanDrosky Award | Xerces Society
The Deborah BanDrosky Awards are made to students engaged in higher education studies and research related to invertebrate conservation.
xerces.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Attn graduate and undergraduate students! 🚨 🪲 🦋🚨 New research funding opportunity from @xercessociety.bsky.social! $5000; deadline is Jan 7 2026. xerces.org/bandrosky
I had the best time talking about stream ecology to a grade 4 class last week with @skypeascientist.bsky.social 👩🔬🐟💦
Their curiosity and enthusiasm was truly infectious 🥹
Their curiosity and enthusiasm was truly infectious 🥹
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I had the best time talking about stream ecology to a grade 4 class last week with @skypeascientist.bsky.social 👩🔬🐟💦
Their curiosity and enthusiasm was truly infectious 🥹
Their curiosity and enthusiasm was truly infectious 🥹
Nostalgic visit to my MSc alma mater UBC this week @forestry.ubc.ca 🌲
October 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Nostalgic visit to my MSc alma mater UBC this week @forestry.ubc.ca 🌲
Reposted by Teresa Silverthorn
📣 Attention: Early-career researchers from developing countries & countries in transition!
Are you interested in becoming a Chapter Scientist and supporting author teams for #IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report?
Apply by 18 Oct 2025
🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/10/07/c...
Are you interested in becoming a Chapter Scientist and supporting author teams for #IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report?
Apply by 18 Oct 2025
🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/10/07/c...
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
📣 Attention: Early-career researchers from developing countries & countries in transition!
Are you interested in becoming a Chapter Scientist and supporting author teams for #IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report?
Apply by 18 Oct 2025
🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/10/07/c...
Are you interested in becoming a Chapter Scientist and supporting author teams for #IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report?
Apply by 18 Oct 2025
🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/10/07/c...
The Little Ecology Group at @sfuscience.bsky.social is hiring a PhD student to conduct aquatic biodiversity research in alpine streams! 🏔️💧🔬👩🔬 This is an awesome opportunity to join a supportive research group in a beautiful part of the world! littleecologygroup.ca/join-us/
Join Us!
Open PhD positions in the Little Ecology Group starting May or September 2026! Come join the Little Ecology Group (www.littleecologygroup.ca)! We are hiring a PhD student to conduct aquatic biodive…
littleecologygroup.ca
October 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
The Little Ecology Group at @sfuscience.bsky.social is hiring a PhD student to conduct aquatic biodiversity research in alpine streams! 🏔️💧🔬👩🔬 This is an awesome opportunity to join a supportive research group in a beautiful part of the world! littleecologygroup.ca/join-us/
Reposted by Teresa Silverthorn
Looking for a PhD in aquatic carbon/GHG cycling? Take a look at this fantastic opportunity. Led by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social and with Amy Pickard, Jens-Arne Subke and me. Field + lab components, and lots of exciting science.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Looking for a PhD in aquatic carbon/GHG cycling? Take a look at this fantastic opportunity. Led by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social and with Amy Pickard, Jens-Arne Subke and me. Field + lab components, and lots of exciting science.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Beautiful few days in the British Columbia Coast Mountains for some fieldwork. We were taking down a long-term warming experiment for the winter. Already looking forward to coming back in the spring/summer! 🏔️🛶🥾
September 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Beautiful few days in the British Columbia Coast Mountains for some fieldwork. We were taking down a long-term warming experiment for the winter. Already looking forward to coming back in the spring/summer! 🏔️🛶🥾
Just submitted our collaborative perspective piece! 🎉 It‘s all about improving accounting and mitigation of GHG emissions from ditches—sparked by the great presentations and discussions at our ditch symposium! 📈🧪👩🔬🌍
What's the collective noun for a group of ditch scientists?
September 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Just submitted our collaborative perspective piece! 🎉 It‘s all about improving accounting and mitigation of GHG emissions from ditches—sparked by the great presentations and discussions at our ditch symposium! 📈🧪👩🔬🌍
First day at SFU today starting a new postdoc position—which was preceded by a weekend of kayaking in the Sechelt Inlet! It’s great to be back in British Columbia! 🥳
September 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
First day at SFU today starting a new postdoc position—which was preceded by a weekend of kayaking in the Sechelt Inlet! It’s great to be back in British Columbia! 🥳
Ooh! Very excited to read this! 👏
It's out! 🧪 "Lines in the landscape," on the under-appreciated importance of #ditches as diverse ecosystems: doi.org/10.1038/s432.... By @peatymike.bsky.social, @fluitans.bsky.social, @drtatariw.bsky.social, @timaukel.bsky.social, @jordannabergman.bsky.social, @juliecrabot.bsky.social, ...
Lines in the landscape - Communications Earth & Environment
Ditches have many overlooked environmental and societal roles, including impact on biodiversity and pollution, and management strategies to enhance their multifunctional landscape-scale benefits are n...
doi.org
August 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Ooh! Very excited to read this! 👏
Study finds impacts of colonization destroyed nearly 90% of Burrard Inlet marine food ecosystems
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Study reveals colonization wiped out nearly 90% of marine food ecosystems in Vancouver's coastal waters | CBC News
A new research partnership between the University of B.C. and Tsleil-Waututh Nation indicates impacts of colonization, including smallpox, overfishing and industrialization, destroyed nearly 90 per ce...
www.cbc.ca
August 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Study finds impacts of colonization destroyed nearly 90% of Burrard Inlet marine food ecosystems
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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COP15 of the Ramsar Convention starts today. Here in Canada we have the privilege of being home to a quarter of the world's remaining wetlands. Let's not forget what a treasure they are.
theconversation.com/canadian-wet...
theconversation.com/canadian-wet...
Canadian wetlands are treasures that deserve protection
Canada is home to a quarter of the world’s remaining wetlands. Despite decades of efforts, wetlands continue to be under threat around the world.
theconversation.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
COP15 of the Ramsar Convention starts today. Here in Canada we have the privilege of being home to a quarter of the world's remaining wetlands. Let's not forget what a treasure they are.
theconversation.com/canadian-wet...
theconversation.com/canadian-wet...
If you want to reminisce about some #EGU25 inland water GHG highlights, I wrote a little something for the BG division blog! ✍️
New blog posts! Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social shares her personal #EGU25 highlights and newest developments in inland water GHG emissions. 💧🐟🌾
Let us know some of your personal highlights of this year's #EGU25!
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...
Let us know some of your personal highlights of this year's #EGU25!
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...
My EGU25 highlights: Inspiring inland water greenhouse gas emission science
The notion that inland waters are passive participants in biogeochemical cycling, with lakes as recipients and rivers as pipes, has long been overturned. More and more research suggests the global imp...
blogs.egu.eu
July 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If you want to reminisce about some #EGU25 inland water GHG highlights, I wrote a little something for the BG division blog! ✍️
Our article about the local and longitudinal effects of small water impoundments on riverine carbon cycling is out now in River Research and Applications @tdatry.bsky.social @rsarremejane.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Small Water Impoundments Have Local and Longitudinal Impacts on Carbon Cycling Along a River Network
Damming may be one of the most significant anthropogenic modifications fragmenting river networks. Damming alters the transport and processing of coarse particulate organic matter (OM), hence influen...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Our article about the local and longitudinal effects of small water impoundments on riverine carbon cycling is out now in River Research and Applications @tdatry.bsky.social @rsarremejane.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Visited some lowland peat ditches in East Anglia with @peatymike.bsky.social to collect CH4 ebullition measurements for the LowlandPeat3 project. Some of the ditches were dry, others covered in duckweed, and we even spotted a fish in one!
June 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Visited some lowland peat ditches in East Anglia with @peatymike.bsky.social to collect CH4 ebullition measurements for the LowlandPeat3 project. Some of the ditches were dry, others covered in duckweed, and we even spotted a fish in one!
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A big tour of fenland ditches with @tksilver.bsky.social today for the Defra-funded Lowland Peat 3 project. Samples collected for dissolved GHGs and dissolved organic carbon, and 24hr chambers deployed to capture total CH4 emissions.
June 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A big tour of fenland ditches with @tksilver.bsky.social today for the Defra-funded Lowland Peat 3 project. Samples collected for dissolved GHGs and dissolved organic carbon, and 24hr chambers deployed to capture total CH4 emissions.