Wonderful to take part in two recent 'study tours' of peatland restoration sites in the East Anglian Fens and Somerset Levels. Many thanks to The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants, @somersetwt and our other generous hosts for sharing your #peat #restoration insights with the Peatscapes team!

The first postdoc role for my INFRACURSIONS project is now being advertised! Deadline 17th April. jobs.ac.uk/job/DGC419/pos… Please share and get in touch with any questions!

Wonderful to contribute our paper "Counting on Peatlands: contingencies of carbon accounting in peatland restoration" at #POLLEN24! Roosa Rytkönen calls attention to the complex temporalities of peat restoration, speaking in a panel on carbon removal, net zero and climate delay!

Delighted to be able to share some work in progress today at EASST #EASST4S2024! Aneurin Merrill-Glover here delivering our paper "Reduce, Remove, Avoid: The Reordering of Peat Restoration for Climate Mitigation", as part of a great session on the Politics of Carbon Sinks

Amazing trip to Ess-soo bog, Estonia. A unique case of local opposition to peat mining, eventually leading to research, nature protection & large-scale restoration. Now a REWET_HE "open lab" for restoration monitoring. Thanks to the State Forest Management Centre for hosting us!

Such a great fieldtrip with Roosa Rytkönen! I've followed Ess-soo resistance for two decades, since working for EestimaaLooduseFond. It's fantastic to see the beginning of healing and recovery!

This week, Roosa Rytkönen is attending #SERE2024 with lots of exciting panels and fieldtrips to peatland restoration projects in Estonia. Including here Kuresoo and #Lavassaare - one of our Peatscapes case study sites. Many thanks to SER Europe for such an amazing programme!

Another fantastic #SERE2024 trip to peat restoration sites in Estonia. This time to Soosaare bog in Alam-Pedja reserve, to see initial outcomes in both extracted & forested areas, 6 years after rewetting. Thanks to Jüri-Ott Salm EestimaaLooduseFond & Elin Soomets University of Tartu for a great tour!

The intense week of #SERE2024 in Estonia ended with a practical crash course by Wetlands International about lagg/transition zone restoration in bogs. What a great way to learn about different methods & data through group work, and study the outcomes of restoration work in Tudusoo mires!

Link for a 3 year postdoctoral research associate position on our Leverhulme Trust ‘Unfeeling climate change’ project - on how disaffected feelings relate to the climate crisis. Please forward/retweet etc. Questions by email, not DM. durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

Delighted to announce the launch of our shiny new project website: peatscapes.com A one-stop shop for everything 'Peatscapes' – including further info on our excellent team (@GeogBristol & Geography Birmingham), insights from fieldwork, and links to conference papers and outputs!

Another exciting fieldtrip to Tudusoo and Laukasoo bogs, restored by LIFE Programme Mires of Estonia in 2015-2021. Very interesting excursions and lectures by EestimaaLooduseFond to learn about the complex design, long-term monitoring, and public understanding of peat restoration projects!

#jobalert , pls spread the word. In January 2025 we will open a new Research and Administrative position: Transdisciplinarity Coordinator, “SAFIRE: Safeguarding Biodiversity through Interdisciplinary Research on Habitat Restoration”. For details pls see docs.google.com/document/d/1aA…

Geographers - flag to UG students: 2 Masters courses at Geography Birmingham College of Life and Environmental Sciences I had/have the pleasure to design, redevelop, direct. New: MA Cities, sustainability, and wellbeing: birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgrad… Redeveloped: MSc Research in Human Geography: birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

Check out this recent Peatscapes blogpost on carbon futures for lowland peat, written by our Research Associate Aneurin Merrill-Glover. Part of the fabulous 'Seeing the Woods' blog, hosted by Rachel Carson Center! cc. The Leverhulme Trust

Two project PhD studentships are now live - if you work with Masters cohorts in this area or are a part of linked networks please do share the opportunities!

This week we're delighted to be joined by Dr Kärg Kama & Dr James Palmer who will be presenting their new project 'Peatscapes in transition: knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration' 🗓️ 06/02 ⏰ 2pm 📍SoGE, University of Oxford All welcome!

Call for Applications European Studies Centre in #Baltic Studies. The Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2025-2026. Deadline February 26, 2025: sant.ox.ac.uk/.../Estonia-Ox…...

📢postdoc opportunity📢 The Infracursions project is hiring TWO postdocs to undertake research on resource extraction in South America. #Amazonia #deforestation #infracursions jobs.ac.uk/job/DME121/pos…

Really excited to see our first 'Peatscapes' journal article out in Progress in Environmental Geography! "Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking" Open Access link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27… #geography #sts #peat #restoration