Congrats to the amazing Dr @MozafariBehzad who successfully passed his PhD viva in @UCDEngArch
with supervisors @fiachraol and Prof. Michael Bruen; thanks to the fantastic peatland hydrologist Michel Bechtold @peatfunc acting as External Examiner.
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Final short talk by Mary Kelly-Quinn (@UCDSBES) on Informing policy + practice to protect Ireland’s freshwaters and her work with Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity Loss (@CitizAssembly) + 18 key messages informed by her #CitizenScience work + research
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Our post-doc Dr Lipe Mendes presented early results of water quality dynamics from an extracted #bog demonstrating harmful effluents and little effect of pond treatment on water quality; see poster on our website:
https://t.co/csl0mq16s8
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Troubled waters: our latest @SWAMP_Project paper presents a snapshot of the quality of streams in the Irish midlands, known for its historical expanse of raised bogs, most affected by peat extraction.
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https://t.co/7jrCgZter1
On #WorldWaterDay, let's shine the light on how a sustainable management of peatlands can help with poor water quality, scarcity and biota loss.
Let's clean up our act, stop peatland degradation for the benefits of all.
EPA-funded @FlowEcology are looking for citizen scientists to take water level measurements from Irish rivers in 2023.
See below for more info #EPAIrelandResearch
Ecological livelihoods, restoration economies and small-scale transformational change. Community groups are constructing futures, building livelihoods & managing peatlands in diverse ways that contribute to social AND ecological resilience #PeatTwitter A🧵 https://t.co/VHD3HwggRr
Peatland drainage and extraction provide several serious challenges to aquatic life: increased mortality, reduced richness, behavioural changes, habitat alterations and changes in community structure!
See more in latest article👇
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https://t.co/PA5Dr5iEhH
Our latest ‘Water Quality in Ireland Report 2016-2021’ shows that Ireland’s surface waters and groundwaters remain under pressure from human activity. Nearly half (46%) of our rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal waters are not in satisfactory condition. 🔗https://t.co/pmcekWHG77
Climate crisis made summer drought 20 times more likely, scientists find. No time to lose to speed up investment in mitigation and adaptation (of course including river restoration) https://t.co/8xakZziJQ7
Our post-doc Lipe Mendes just published a very interesting paper on treating reactive phosphorus by filter materials at the edge of tile-drained agricultural catchments
https://t.co/DoViiLuzR1
Robust results from 5 years monitoring confirms that rewetting drained bogs 1) reduce C emissions 2) establish optimal conditions for C sequestration & 3) set the site on a climate cooling trajectory.
Funded by @EPAIreland@ProjectAuger
https://t.co/H0ipSBCTx3
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