@smilingmegs
PhD candidate @GhgLab @GeogWaterloo studying #greenhousegases in #peatland #swamps. MSc in #peatlandrestoration. #fibro & #mentalhealth warrior. 🐈⬛ & 🪴 mom Rewilding & native plant education and gardening 🌼🌱🐝🐞🦋🐸🦉🐦⬛
Excited to share the first publication from my PhD work on swamps!
We conducted a synoptic study of 12 swamps across southern Ontario looking at carbon pools and fluxes.
doi.org/10.19189/001...
So at noon we find out that the last six months was the joke, right?
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Right?!!
Some beautiful winter fluxing in the swamps over the last few weeks
Whether it's the bog, fen, swamp, or urban wetland, we love to get fluxy 😁
New open-access #SwampScience
Carbon stocks and fluxes from a boreal conifer swamp: filling a knowledge gap for understanding the boreal C cycle
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The swamps are coming alive again
Happy meow-loween from the peatland cats, Black Spruce and Larch!
Then ---> now
2017, 3rd yr undergrad, the summer that started it all w/ @kenzco4.bsky.social in AB & NWT.
2023, 3rd yr PhD, the swamp project that just keeps growing w/ @wetland-ghg.bsky.social in southern ON.
Thankful for these two amazing women for taking a chance and believing in me.
Taking a nervous system reset break with my wonderfully chaotic native gardens. Love this corner.
Check in on your queer friends and family today 💔🏳️🌈
Super exciting Friday evening in the lab
#gradlife
Someone come work in the swamps with me and tell me about the hydrology!!
Wettest day yet after a big storm last night - 45 cm at the collar in the pool!
Bottom right is a swamp aster flower, purple with yellow center, in focus with a background of blurred pink Joe pye weed and white boneset flowers and lots of green leaves.
A monarch butterfly feeds from a white echinaccea flower with more flowers blurred on the foreground
Enjoying the colours and visitors in my native gardens.