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Peat fans, why not join the Irish Peatland Society?
Following our Peatlands Gathering event, where else can those with an interest in peat find more information and meet like-minded...
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Oct 9, 20211 min read
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Peatlands Gathering 2021 keynote address delivered by Minister Malcolm Noonan
Peatlands Gathering was delighted to have Minister of State for Heritage & Electoral Reform Malcolm Noonan TD deliver the keynote address...
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Oct 9, 20215 min read
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Treasure - Bog Poetry by Eileen Casey, captured on film
‘Treasure’ is a short film commissioned by Offaly Arts for Culture Night, 2021 which features a selection of bog poetry by Eileen Casey...
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Oct 6, 20213 min read
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"Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane": Implications of the Meenbog Peat Slide
Dr Phoebe Morton, an ecosystem scientist formerly of the Source To Tap project writes on the Meenbog Peat Slide in Co Donegal last year
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Oct 6, 20214 min read
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Ecohydrology of wetlands and remote sensing monitoring
Prof Laurence Gill, of Trinity College Dublin, is principal investigator on the EPA-funded research project, EcoMetrics, developing...
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Sep 4, 20214 min read
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Improving water from managed bogs: SWAMP and Reform Water projects
Here Dr Florence Renou-Wilson, Principal Investigator & Director of the MSc Programme in Global Change: Ecosystem Science and Policy at...
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Sep 4, 20212 min read
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AUGER - How peatland properties influence Irish greenhouse gas emissions & removal
Dr Florence Renou-Wilson, Principal Investigator & Director of the MSc Programme in Global Change: Ecosystem Science and Policy at the...
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Aug 22, 20214 min read
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GP3 - Irish Peatland Restoration Project
The GP3 campaign to restore damaged peatlands is supported by the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global Peatlands Initiative and...
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Aug 2, 20214 min read
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Protecting Ireland’s Oligotrophic Lakes
Emma Gray, Heather Lally and Giovanni Cappelli of the Marine and Freshwater Research Centre, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, on...
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Jul 26, 20212 min read
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Irish Peatland Archaeology - Past, Present and Future
Ellen O Carroll, Post Doctoral Researcher in Archaeology, UCD School of Archaeology and foodcult.eu writes about the amazing discoveries...
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Jul 26, 20212 min read
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Smart observations of peatland function - Smartbog
Pics of bogland, a near-natural raised bog, a site that has been drained and peat extracted, then a site rewetted in the Smartbog project
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Jul 21, 20213 min read
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Welcome to the Peatlands Gathering 2021!
Dr Catherine A. Farrell, pictured below right, leader of the Peatlands Gathering 2021 organising committee, writes: The Peatlands...
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Jul 7, 20213 min read
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