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The next recipient of our March #PeatNeeds microgrants is Laura Catalina Riaño Peña. She is working on ecological restoration of pools in ombrotrophic and minerotrophic peatlands in Canada.
March 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
alicemmilner.bsky.social
Thanks to @peatlandecr.bsky.social for their #PeatNeeds support to @dylanoliver58.bsky.social. It’s a great microgrant scheme for researchers on a tight budget! @wetwoodlands.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
peatlandecr.bsky.social Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · Mar 26
The first recipient of our March #PeatNeeds microgrants is Dylan Oliver. He is part of the wet woodlands research network (@wetwoodlands.bsky.social) where scientists and stakeholders are interested in nature-based solutions for climate change. 1/2
March 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
📣 #PeatNeeds is back for July/August 2026! Microfunding of 125 CAD$ for one #ECR working on a wet-/peatland project.
Global, no age limit.
Apply by July 31; notifications by Aug 31.
Previous #PEATNeeds awardees aren’t eligible.

Apply ⤵️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#PeatNeeds #PeatECR #Peatlands
The Peatland ECR Action Team is advertising for applications for the PeatECR microfunding program, PeatNeeds. Each season, one person can win 125 Canadian dollars for specific PeatECR needs in the field or lab. The picture shows a peatland with a boardwalk and a wheelbarrow.
June 23, 2026 at 9:46 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
🕯️🎄Happy first Advent-week to all #PeatECR and peatland folks!

Did you send your #peatland equipment wish list to Santa yet? 🎅🤶

Look out for new #PeatNeeds offers coming up early next year, to complete your field preparations!

Merry Christmas season!
📷: @burdun.bsky.social
Boardwalk through spruces and cottongras in Estonian Luhasoo peatland (Photo: Iuliia Burdun)
December 2, 2024 at 9:42 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
The first recipient of our March #PeatNeeds microgrants is Dylan Oliver. He is part of the wet woodlands research network (@wetwoodlands.bsky.social) where scientists and stakeholders are interested in nature-based solutions for climate change. 1/2
March 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
Attention #ECR 📣 Two weeks left to apply for this season’s #PeatNeeds funding!💰
#peatlands
#wetlands
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#phdlife
peatlandecr.bsky.social Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · Jun 23
📣 #PeatNeeds is back for July/August 2026! Microfunding of 125 CAD$ for one #ECR working on a wet-/peatland project.
Global, no age limit.
Apply by July 31; notifications by Aug 31.
Previous #PEATNeeds awardees aren’t eligible.

Apply ⤵️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#PeatNeeds #PeatECR #Peatlands
The Peatland ECR Action Team is advertising for applications for the PeatECR microfunding program, PeatNeeds. Each season, one person can win 125 Canadian dollars for specific PeatECR needs in the field or lab. The picture shows a peatland with a boardwalk and a wheelbarrow.
July 16, 2026 at 9:07 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
🚨 #PeatECR don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 #PeatNeeds microgrants!

🗓️ Just over a week left to apply for funding in March.
Send us your wish list, before you head off into the field!
🐸🕷️🌱💦🫧

ℹ️ More info on requirements and conditions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
February 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
A huge thank you to @peatofmind.bsky.social, @unpeatable.bsky.social, and @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social for their very generous donations, enabling us to offer #PeatNeeds microgrants for #PeatECR again this year
February 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
knowyouronion.bsky.social
One month left to apply for the summer round it @peatlandecr.bsky.social 2026 #PeatNeeds micro grants. It's a really easy application process, so go check it out if you are in need of a small financial boost as summer fieldwork kicks off.
peatlandecr.bsky.social Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · Jun 23
📣 #PeatNeeds is back for July/August 2026! Microfunding of 125 CAD$ for one #ECR working on a wet-/peatland project.
Global, no age limit.
Apply by July 31; notifications by Aug 31.
Previous #PEATNeeds awardees aren’t eligible.

Apply ⤵️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#PeatNeeds #PeatECR #Peatlands
The Peatland ECR Action Team is advertising for applications for the PeatECR microfunding program, PeatNeeds. Each season, one person can win 125 Canadian dollars for specific PeatECR needs in the field or lab. The picture shows a peatland with a boardwalk and a wheelbarrow.
June 29, 2026 at 5:57 PM
hanna-martens.bsky.social
#PeatNeeds is back! Need a little money to help support your research? Something not covered by your scholarship or project, but you still need it? 🥾🧪🔬 Check out our website to read about all the cool projects we've supported in the past!
peatlandecr.bsky.social Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · Feb 2
Happy World Wetlands Day! And what a better way to celebrate, than to announce that #PeatNeeds is back! Applications are now open for $100 CAD microgrants. #PeatECR (within 7 years of terminal degree) are eligible for funding. For more information or to apply see docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
A photo of a group of people walking through a peatland on a sunny day. There are trees and blue sky in the background. Overlain on the photo is a banner reading Peat Needs 2025 in March, April, and May. In the foreground, also overlain on the photo, there is a cartoon backpack, pair of rubber boots, microscope, the Peatland ECR Action Team (PEAT) logo, and photo credit to Meike Lemmer.
February 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
Thank you so much Bjorn, we really appreciate your support 🙏

Due to time constraints we were not able to work on a #PeatCalendar 📅 this year and your donation will help with bringing back #PeatNeeds 💵 in 2025 🎉

#PeatECR #PeatSky #Peatlands
unpeatable.bsky.social Bjorn Robroek @unpeatable.bsky.social · Nov 22
I will match @peatofmind.bsky.social generous donation to the @peatlandecr.bsky.social with a comparable amount in € (350). I challenge other peatlanders with means to do the same. We all know how hard it can be as an ECR and we as a community can support the next generation.
peatlandecr.bsky.social Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · Nov 22
Fen-tastic!!! 🎉

We are honored and grateful to receive the #NobelPeatPrize once again 🏆 It's been a pleasure to provide some support to #PeatECR for another year!

📣 We are looking for new faces to continue this work in the future.

Thank you to all the peatfolks out there supporting us! 🙏 #PeatSky
November 23, 2024 at 12:25 PM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
The first recipient of our April #PeatNeeds is Carla Welpelo (@carterarla.bsky.social). Carla investigates the effects of birch encroachment on carbon and water cycling in a rewetted peatland following peat extraction. 1/2
Carla, wearing a grey rain coat, black rain pants, boots, and a turquoise scarf and a big smile, is standing on a wooden frame supporting an eddy covariance tower in a peatland. The EC tower is surrounded by tussock vegetation in the foreground. In the background there are trees and open water.
April 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️⭐️ Merry 4th Advent-week, cherished #peatland people!

“Alas! How dreary would be the world if there was no #PeatECR! There would be no #PeatNeeds then, no #PeatWrites, no #PeatCalendar to make tolerable this existence.”

Join the team and keep the support active! ☃️

📷: @meikelemmer.bsky.social
Boardwalk through a Sphagnum-farming field in the Ahlenmoor, Germany (Photo: Meike Lemmer)
December 23, 2024 at 10:09 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
Laura measures dissolved and ebullitive gases in rewetted peatlands in the UK and Sweden, and is also radiocarbon dating these gases. The #PeatNeeds microgrant will go towards field kit to wear during a field campaign this summer. 2/2
April 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
The second recipient for the April round of #PeatNeeds is Laura Baugh (laurabaugh94.bsky.social). Laura is interested in GHG fluxes from waterbodies in rewetted peatlands, with a specific focus on methane. 1/2
Laura, wearing a black ball cap, light blue long-sleeved top, black trousers, and hiking boots, is standing on a boardwalk in a peatland and smiling at the camera. There are trees in the background. Behind Laura is a pool, and to the left are a couple of floating chambers stacked up which are used to measure greenhouse gas fluxes from peatland waterbodies.
April 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
She is also interested in understanding small wetlands, which are often overlooked despite their crucial role in biodiversity. Laura will use #PeatNeeds microgrant to cover essential needs in order to focus entirely on thesis writing.
March 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
🕯️🕯️🕯️✨💫Holly jolly third Advent-week dear #PeatPeople!

What’s on your Christmas list?

🎅🤶We’re asking Santa this year to bring new members who will continue our cause, support the #peat community and make #PeatECR eyes shine over #PeatNeeds micro-grants🤩💰

ℹ️ PeatECR@gmail.com
📸 @burdun.bsky.social
Boardwalk through a treeless open, boreal bog in Finland in Patvinsuo national parc. Photo: Iuliia Burdun.
December 16, 2024 at 6:37 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
The first recipient of our May #PeatNeeds is Victor Lecegui, who is studying the ecological drivers that affect microeukaryote communities in peatlands across the Iberian Peninsula. Victor will use the microgrant to buy a pair of waterproof boots and a hand lens for surveying vegetation plots.
A headshot of Victor, wearing a navy winter coat with fur-lined hood and smiling at the camera. The sky is overcast. In the background there are orange-brown larches and evergreen trees.
May 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
Happy World Wetlands Day! And what a better way to celebrate, than to announce that #PeatNeeds is back! Applications are now open for $100 CAD microgrants. #PeatECR (within 7 years of terminal degree) are eligible for funding. For more information or to apply see docs.google.com/forms/d/1O6J...
A photo of a group of people walking through a peatland on a sunny day. There are trees and blue sky in the background. Overlain on the photo is a banner reading Peat Needs 2025 in March, April, and May. In the foreground, also overlain on the photo, there is a cartoon backpack, pair of rubber boots, microscope, the Peatland ECR Action Team (PEAT) logo, and photo credit to Meike Lemmer.
February 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
🔎 Find and follow us on LinkedIn too now and get updates on #PeatNeeds, #PeatCalendar, #PeatPublications and other #PeatECR resources and services.

🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/peat...
Picture of a LinkedIn profile page of the Peatland ECR Action Team, featuring a panorama view of an open wetland with cotton grass and low sedge vegetation, as well as a boardwalk leading through. A mountain range is seen in the far background.
May 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
The next recipient of our May #PeatNeeds is Johannes Cunow (@jcunow.bsky.social). Johannes is investigating the influence of snowcover changes and reindeer grazing on when and where roots grow in northern ecosystems. 1/3
Johannes is standing under a blue umbrella on a boardwalk in a peatland, wearing black-framed glasses, a white polo shirt, bright blue and yellow board shorts, and brown sandals. Johannes is looking at the camera and is holding the umbrella and a folding ruler. The boardwalk is surrounded by cottongrass and a few dipwells. In the background there are trees and blue sky with some clouds.
May 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
The next recipient of our August #PeatNeeds microgrants is Kamil Sardar. Kamil’s research focuses on quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands in the Hemiboreal region of northern Europe. 1/2
Kamil is in a forested peatland in front of a boardwalk, wearing blue t-shirt and straw hat.
August 26, 2024 at 7:16 PM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
The final recipient for our April round of #PeatNeeds is Vanessa Götz. Vanessa investigates how plant roots (e.g. Eriophorum vaginatum) interact with thawing permafrost soils in the Alaskan moist acidic tussock tundra and how these interactions influence carbon cycling. 1/2
Vanessa is smiling at the camera taking a selfie, wearing black-framed glasses and is wrapped up in a khaki-green wooly hat, tartan scarf, and grey-brown coat. Vanessa is standing on the edge of a frozen lake covered in snow. In the background there are trees around the edge of the lake.
April 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
The third recipient of our March #PeatNeeds microgrants is Sebestian Kalang William from the University of Tartu. He is working on measuring GHG fluxes in tropical peat swamp forests and land use change. 1/2
Sebestian wearing a black jacket takes a selfie on an eddy covariance tower above the forest canopy, with various weather or environmental monitoring instruments around him. In the background, there is a vast expanse of dense green forest under a partly cloudy sky.
April 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
peatlandecr.bsky.social
The next recipient of our July #PeatNeeds microgrants is Emelie Obi. Emelie’s research focuses on how oribatid mites, the dominant microarthropods in boreal peatlands, respond to climate change and associated environmental shifts. 1/4
Emelie is standing on a boardwalk in a boreal peatland and is wearing a brown toque, orange high vis vest, beige trousers, and black rubber boots. Emilie is facing the camera, has a huge smile and is giving two thumbs up.
July 30, 2024 at 8:15 AM