NOBEL - Nibi (Water) Observatory
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Nibi (Water) Observatory for Boreal Ecohydrological Landscapes (NOBEL) - An Observatory for Watersheds and Wetlands in the Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere #hydrology #wetlands
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I'm currently looking for an MSc student to characterize water ages and storage in cold catchments. Several potential projects available, and I will support students who want to develop their own! If interested, please reach out soon at [email protected], as Sept 2026 app deadlines are approaching!
January 16, 2026 at 9:29 PM
I'm currently looking for an MSc student to characterize water ages and storage in cold catchments. Several potential projects available, and I will support students who want to develop their own! If interested, please reach out soon at [email protected], as Sept 2026 app deadlines are approaching!
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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.
* While “unpresidented”, in case he tries, the #NobelPeatPrize rules are clear. The award is non transferable.
January 10, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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.
* While “unpresidented”, in case he tries, the #NobelPeatPrize rules are clear. The award is non transferable.
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A decade ago, we published our highly cited "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands" paper in Ecohydrology.
Today the sequel just dropped!
"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1/3
Today the sequel just dropped!
"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1/3
December 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A decade ago, we published our highly cited "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands" paper in Ecohydrology.
Today the sequel just dropped!
"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1/3
Today the sequel just dropped!
"Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1/3
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On behalf of the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab I'm happy to announce the winner of the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize for top Intl #PeatPaper
Congrats to: Nijp et al.
"Ecohydrological feedbacks increase water storage, streamflow, and resilience of natural peatlands"
Journal of Hydrology
#Peatlands
Congrats to: Nijp et al.
"Ecohydrological feedbacks increase water storage, streamflow, and resilience of natural peatlands"
Journal of Hydrology
#Peatlands
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
On behalf of the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab I'm happy to announce the winner of the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize for top Intl #PeatPaper
Congrats to: Nijp et al.
"Ecohydrological feedbacks increase water storage, streamflow, and resilience of natural peatlands"
Journal of Hydrology
#Peatlands
Congrats to: Nijp et al.
"Ecohydrological feedbacks increase water storage, streamflow, and resilience of natural peatlands"
Journal of Hydrology
#Peatlands
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2025 #NobelPeatPrize (Outreach)
Peat Colours!
The “Tracking the Colours of Peatlands” outreach and citizen science initiative explores and communicates peatland science through peat pics.
Congrats @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
The #NobelPeatPrize (McMaster) will be announced Dec 10th.
Peat Colours!
The “Tracking the Colours of Peatlands” outreach and citizen science initiative explores and communicates peatland science through peat pics.
Congrats @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
The #NobelPeatPrize (McMaster) will be announced Dec 10th.
December 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
2025 #NobelPeatPrize (Outreach)
Peat Colours!
The “Tracking the Colours of Peatlands” outreach and citizen science initiative explores and communicates peatland science through peat pics.
Congrats @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
The #NobelPeatPrize (McMaster) will be announced Dec 10th.
Peat Colours!
The “Tracking the Colours of Peatlands” outreach and citizen science initiative explores and communicates peatland science through peat pics.
Congrats @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
The #NobelPeatPrize (McMaster) will be announced Dec 10th.
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Winner of the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize for top McMaster peat paper is Furukawa et al. accepted earlier today in Ecohydrology!
Almost four years to put this together. A complete lab group effort! Abstract attached.
#SurvivalOfTheDeepest
The #NobelPeatPrize (International) will be announced Dec. 11th
Almost four years to put this together. A complete lab group effort! Abstract attached.
#SurvivalOfTheDeepest
The #NobelPeatPrize (International) will be announced Dec. 11th
December 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Winner of the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize for top McMaster peat paper is Furukawa et al. accepted earlier today in Ecohydrology!
Almost four years to put this together. A complete lab group effort! Abstract attached.
#SurvivalOfTheDeepest
The #NobelPeatPrize (International) will be announced Dec. 11th
Almost four years to put this together. A complete lab group effort! Abstract attached.
#SurvivalOfTheDeepest
The #NobelPeatPrize (International) will be announced Dec. 11th
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Get your abstracts ready for the CGU/IAH-CNC Meeting May 24-27 in Halifax, NS. Deadline is January 10th!
If you study streams, wetlands, forests, land-air fluxes, GHGs, carbon, soils, pollution, or nature-based climate solutions submit to exciting Biogeosciences sessions: tinyurl.com/CGUBGS2026
If you study streams, wetlands, forests, land-air fluxes, GHGs, carbon, soils, pollution, or nature-based climate solutions submit to exciting Biogeosciences sessions: tinyurl.com/CGUBGS2026
2026 Session Descriptions
www.meet-here.ca
December 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Get your abstracts ready for the CGU/IAH-CNC Meeting May 24-27 in Halifax, NS. Deadline is January 10th!
If you study streams, wetlands, forests, land-air fluxes, GHGs, carbon, soils, pollution, or nature-based climate solutions submit to exciting Biogeosciences sessions: tinyurl.com/CGUBGS2026
If you study streams, wetlands, forests, land-air fluxes, GHGs, carbon, soils, pollution, or nature-based climate solutions submit to exciting Biogeosciences sessions: tinyurl.com/CGUBGS2026
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Here Be Sphagnums!
Sphagnum moss is generally resistant to burning 🔥 Even in a recent wildfire at the base of the Mt. Doom 🌋 💍
Sphagnum >> Sauron
#NZPeatTour
Sphagnum moss is generally resistant to burning 🔥 Even in a recent wildfire at the base of the Mt. Doom 🌋 💍
Sphagnum >> Sauron
#NZPeatTour
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Here Be Sphagnums!
Sphagnum moss is generally resistant to burning 🔥 Even in a recent wildfire at the base of the Mt. Doom 🌋 💍
Sphagnum >> Sauron
#NZPeatTour
Sphagnum moss is generally resistant to burning 🔥 Even in a recent wildfire at the base of the Mt. Doom 🌋 💍
Sphagnum >> Sauron
#NZPeatTour
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The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! We encourage the #peatland community to give each of these wonderful papers a read.
The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper
The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! We encourage the #peatland community to give each of these wonderful papers a read.
The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper
The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper
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Heading to the Canadian Geophysical Union annual meeting 2026 in Halifax?
We’re convening a session: From Data to Solutions on distributed data + network science for climate action in Canada.
Abstracts due 10 Jan 2026 - all welcome to submit.
www.meet-here.ca/cgu-iah_2026...
We’re convening a session: From Data to Solutions on distributed data + network science for climate action in Canada.
Abstracts due 10 Jan 2026 - all welcome to submit.
www.meet-here.ca/cgu-iah_2026...
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Heading to the Canadian Geophysical Union annual meeting 2026 in Halifax?
We’re convening a session: From Data to Solutions on distributed data + network science for climate action in Canada.
Abstracts due 10 Jan 2026 - all welcome to submit.
www.meet-here.ca/cgu-iah_2026...
We’re convening a session: From Data to Solutions on distributed data + network science for climate action in Canada.
Abstracts due 10 Jan 2026 - all welcome to submit.
www.meet-here.ca/cgu-iah_2026...
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Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...
Job profile
vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...
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For over 15 years the McMaster Ecohydro Lab has awarded the #NobelPeatPrize to the authors of the best peatland or peat paper of the year.
It’s that time of year again where we review papers and finalize a list of nominees.
Do you have a fave paper for 2025 you would like us to consider?
It’s that time of year again where we review papers and finalize a list of nominees.
Do you have a fave paper for 2025 you would like us to consider?
October 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
For over 15 years the McMaster Ecohydro Lab has awarded the #NobelPeatPrize to the authors of the best peatland or peat paper of the year.
It’s that time of year again where we review papers and finalize a list of nominees.
Do you have a fave paper for 2025 you would like us to consider?
It’s that time of year again where we review papers and finalize a list of nominees.
Do you have a fave paper for 2025 you would like us to consider?
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New paper out: The Canadian Global Water Futures programme – creation, foundation, and operation
As GWF concluded this year, the article looks back at how the program was built, its achievements (2,000+ publications, 3,100+ talks), and lessons for future water research in Canada & globally.
As GWF concluded this year, the article looks back at how the program was built, its achievements (2,000+ publications, 3,100+ talks), and lessons for future water research in Canada & globally.
The Canadian Global water Futures programme – creation, foundation, and operation
The world is entering an era of immense water-related threats, from floods, droughts, and other extreme events to degradation of water quality and severe pressure on aquatic ecosystems, increasing ...
doi.org
September 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
New paper out: The Canadian Global Water Futures programme – creation, foundation, and operation
As GWF concluded this year, the article looks back at how the program was built, its achievements (2,000+ publications, 3,100+ talks), and lessons for future water research in Canada & globally.
As GWF concluded this year, the article looks back at how the program was built, its achievements (2,000+ publications, 3,100+ talks), and lessons for future water research in Canada & globally.
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New #PeatPaper by Lees et al. in #HydrologicalProcesses
"The Sponge Analogy Problem: Moving Towards Clearer Communication of Peatland Hydrological Processes"
#peatlands #hydrology #scicomm
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
"The Sponge Analogy Problem: Moving Towards Clearer Communication of Peatland Hydrological Processes"
#peatlands #hydrology #scicomm
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
September 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New #PeatPaper by Lees et al. in #HydrologicalProcesses
"The Sponge Analogy Problem: Moving Towards Clearer Communication of Peatland Hydrological Processes"
#peatlands #hydrology #scicomm
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
"The Sponge Analogy Problem: Moving Towards Clearer Communication of Peatland Hydrological Processes"
#peatlands #hydrology #scicomm
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Check out our new paper "Ecohydrological drivers of Boreal Shield peatland fire refugia" in Ecohydrology.
Authors: Alex Tekatch, Chantel Markle, Sophie Wilkinson, Paul Moore, @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social, @peatofmind.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Authors: Alex Tekatch, Chantel Markle, Sophie Wilkinson, Paul Moore, @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social, @peatofmind.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
July 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Check out our new paper "Ecohydrological drivers of Boreal Shield peatland fire refugia" in Ecohydrology.
Authors: Alex Tekatch, Chantel Markle, Sophie Wilkinson, Paul Moore, @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social, @peatofmind.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Authors: Alex Tekatch, Chantel Markle, Sophie Wilkinson, Paul Moore, @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social, @peatofmind.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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🌍 Big news in peatland science!
5 current & former PERG researchers are in the global top 10 for peatland restoration! 🌿
🏆 Shoutout to Line Rochefort #1 worldwide!
💥 @ulaval.ca also ranks #1 globally!
📖 Read: shorturl.at/uJl6A
#Peatlands #PeatSky
@wetland-ghg.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social
5 current & former PERG researchers are in the global top 10 for peatland restoration! 🌿
🏆 Shoutout to Line Rochefort #1 worldwide!
💥 @ulaval.ca also ranks #1 globally!
📖 Read: shorturl.at/uJl6A
#Peatlands #PeatSky
@wetland-ghg.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social
A global development and dynamics of peatland restoration: a bibliometric analysis
Peatland ecosystems play a critical role in conservation of biodiversity and climate regulation, but face ongoing degradation from land-use change, mi…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🌍 Big news in peatland science!
5 current & former PERG researchers are in the global top 10 for peatland restoration! 🌿
🏆 Shoutout to Line Rochefort #1 worldwide!
💥 @ulaval.ca also ranks #1 globally!
📖 Read: shorturl.at/uJl6A
#Peatlands #PeatSky
@wetland-ghg.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social
5 current & former PERG researchers are in the global top 10 for peatland restoration! 🌿
🏆 Shoutout to Line Rochefort #1 worldwide!
💥 @ulaval.ca also ranks #1 globally!
📖 Read: shorturl.at/uJl6A
#Peatlands #PeatSky
@wetland-ghg.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social
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It's official!
Line Rochefort is the Queen of #Peatland #Restoration!
Another metric of her legacy. 5 of the 6 most productive peat researchers (# articles fractionalized) were, or are, members of the research group she started in the 90s.
#1 Rochefort
#2 Strack
#3 Price
#5 Andersen
#6 Waddington
Line Rochefort is the Queen of #Peatland #Restoration!
Another metric of her legacy. 5 of the 6 most productive peat researchers (# articles fractionalized) were, or are, members of the research group she started in the 90s.
#1 Rochefort
#2 Strack
#3 Price
#5 Andersen
#6 Waddington
🌍 Big news in peatland science!
5 current & former PERG researchers are in the global top 10 for peatland restoration! 🌿
🏆 Shoutout to Line Rochefort #1 worldwide!
💥 @ulaval.ca also ranks #1 globally!
📖 Read: shorturl.at/uJl6A
#Peatlands #PeatSky
@wetland-ghg.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social
5 current & former PERG researchers are in the global top 10 for peatland restoration! 🌿
🏆 Shoutout to Line Rochefort #1 worldwide!
💥 @ulaval.ca also ranks #1 globally!
📖 Read: shorturl.at/uJl6A
#Peatlands #PeatSky
@wetland-ghg.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social
A global development and dynamics of peatland restoration: a bibliometric analysis
Peatland ecosystems play a critical role in conservation of biodiversity and climate regulation, but face ongoing degradation from land-use change, mi…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It's official!
Line Rochefort is the Queen of #Peatland #Restoration!
Another metric of her legacy. 5 of the 6 most productive peat researchers (# articles fractionalized) were, or are, members of the research group she started in the 90s.
#1 Rochefort
#2 Strack
#3 Price
#5 Andersen
#6 Waddington
Line Rochefort is the Queen of #Peatland #Restoration!
Another metric of her legacy. 5 of the 6 most productive peat researchers (# articles fractionalized) were, or are, members of the research group she started in the 90s.
#1 Rochefort
#2 Strack
#3 Price
#5 Andersen
#6 Waddington
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“They're missing the whole point in that we're seeing more fires, a longer fire season, more intense fires, more severe fires, because the climate is changing due to human activities,” said fire expert Mike Flannigan.
“It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”
“It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”
NEW: The Kananaskis Wildfire Charter is 536 words long. None of them are “climate change."
In 'serious omission,' G7 leaders release wildfire charter with no mention of climate change
The discussions that led to the statement’s specific wording were not public. But governments of most G7 nations recognize the role of human activity in climate change, as well as the role of climate ...
www.nationalobserver.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“They're missing the whole point in that we're seeing more fires, a longer fire season, more intense fires, more severe fires, because the climate is changing due to human activities,” said fire expert Mike Flannigan.
“It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”
“It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”
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Boreal wildfires are, yet again, raging near historical smelting toxic metal pollution sources. The peatlands, forests, and lakes near Flin Flon MB have elevated toxic metals (e.g. Hg, As, Pb) that current wildfires can remobilize to our air, land, and water (similar to tinyurl.com/yv7usr6b). 1/2
Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape - IOPscienceSearch
Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape, Sutton, O F, McCarter, C P R, Waddington, J M
tinyurl.com
June 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Boreal wildfires are, yet again, raging near historical smelting toxic metal pollution sources. The peatlands, forests, and lakes near Flin Flon MB have elevated toxic metals (e.g. Hg, As, Pb) that current wildfires can remobilize to our air, land, and water (similar to tinyurl.com/yv7usr6b). 1/2
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May 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Field photo: “It’s time to draw a line in the sand umm errr Sphagnum”
#Peatlands #PeatSky #wildfire
@nobel-water.bsky.social
#Peatlands #PeatSky #wildfire
@nobel-water.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Field photo: “It’s time to draw a line in the sand umm errr Sphagnum”
#Peatlands #PeatSky #wildfire
@nobel-water.bsky.social
#Peatlands #PeatSky #wildfire
@nobel-water.bsky.social
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New #PeatPaper led by Owen Sutton with @peatbloke.bsky.social and others
#peatlands
Shallow peatlands as sentinels of climate change
#peatlands
Shallow peatlands as sentinels of climate change
Our new paper in ERL, led by Owen Sutton & @peatofmind.bsky.social, considers how shallow peatlands could help us understand the response of deeper, more established peats and their huge soil C stocks to ongoing climate warming. Open access and free to all iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Shallow peatlands as sentinels of climate change - IOPscienceSearch
Shallow peatlands as sentinels of climate change, Sutton, Owen F, Furukawa, Alex K, Moore, Paul A, Morris, Paul J, Waddington, James M
iopscience.iop.org
May 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
New #PeatPaper led by Owen Sutton with @peatbloke.bsky.social and others
#peatlands
Shallow peatlands as sentinels of climate change
#peatlands
Shallow peatlands as sentinels of climate change
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Really grateful that I had the chance to learn from Gracie & help out with this Georgian Bay Biosphere video!
Check out this new Georgian Bay Biosphere #StateOfTheBay "Learning from Fire" video featuring Gracie Crafts & @sciencewithkyra.bsky.social!
#wildfire
#shkode
#peatlands
@nobel-water.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0sL...
#wildfire
#shkode
#peatlands
@nobel-water.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0sL...
Learning From Fire
YouTube video by Georgian Bay Biosphere
www.youtube.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Really grateful that I had the chance to learn from Gracie & help out with this Georgian Bay Biosphere video!
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In the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab, we've been studying how #moss transplants can help to kickstart vegetation recovery after a severe #wildfire.
@nobel-water.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social
#drone
@nobel-water.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social
#drone
March 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab, we've been studying how #moss transplants can help to kickstart vegetation recovery after a severe #wildfire.
@nobel-water.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social
#drone
@nobel-water.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social
#drone