Science Communicator & PhD Candidate in Environmental Science. Find me on 💙☁️ instead: https://xitter.cf/t.co/S1I1G2KWj1
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Bogs & cranberries, it must be fall! 🍂 Wrapping up the field season at my wildfire research site with a few repairs after a large animal yanked wires out of the datalogger 🐻 🫎
#FieldworkFriday #FieldPhotoFriday #EnvironmentalScience #peatland @McMasterU
ALT A researcher in an orange high-visibility vest holds a notebook and measuring tape and looks excitedly at a small cranberry growing in the peatland
Also spent some time measuring the heights and basal diameter of trees, which have really shot up in the 6 years post-fire! #wildfire
#ClimateChange #research #PhDLife #GradSchool @GBayBiosphere
ALT A tall measurement tower and solar panel stand behind a burned tree and several live trees
Excited to nominate a peaty #SciComm paper!
The McMaster Ecohydrology presents our 2024 #NobelPeatPrize nominees!
#PeatPaper themes: peatland patterns, public perception, fire and metals, mercury, and fire weather
Winner announced Dec 5 @NOBEL_Water
@BettyEhnvall, A. Kuhn, @abbeymarcotte, @Colin_PRM, @j_mortelmans
In the @GBayBiosphere, at-risk turtles nest in shallow soil on #CanadianShield rock. BUT when #wildfire occurs, much of the soil burns off & erodes. Not only does this reduce the number of spots where #turtles can lay eggs, but also affects suitability of remaining nest habitat
Further study will be important to determine how long conditions remain suitable - changes in vegetation cover will affect shading of soil deposits & the amount of radiation reflected (albedo), which will dictate nest #habitat suitability as post-fire recovery continues
Check out the rest of our findings here! doi.org/10.1656/045.031.s120…
@ChantelMarkle @SuperMossSophie @HCAF8 @DefiniteForest @PeatOfMind #NewPaper #conservation
Kyra Simone retweeted
Lights. Camera. Action!
Talking 🔥with @gracie_crafts and @KyraLSimone
@grahamperry1 (🎥) and @GBayBiosphere
Had a great time at the @CGU_UGC conference! I presented part of my first PhD chapter on interannual variability of surface energy balance in unburned @GBayBiosphere rock barrens - this will act as a baseline to compare energy fluxes in an area that experienced wildfire!🧵
Learned about unexpected timing of evapotranspiration in subalpine ecosystems from @LindseyLangs, and the role of seasonal ground ice in ET from Brandon Van Huizen & the @UW_Hydromet group
And that's a wrap for my first big (& very PEAT-y) conference! So excited for future opportunities like this, and feeling very lucky to be part of such a fun & supportive research group 😊 (feat. amazing #swagnum stickers by @RachelYFallas
