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Oct 6, 20214 min read

"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 3, 20211 min read

Not Yet Saved - Peatland-inspired art by Jo Killalea

Artist Jo Killalea's paintings capture an essence of the peatland landscape of her home in the West of Ireland and were recently...

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peatlandsgathering

Sep 4, 20212 min read

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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peatlandsgathering

Jul 26, 20212 min read

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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peatlandsgathering

Jul 26, 20212 min read

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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peatlandsgathering

Jul 21, 20213 min read

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 7, 20213 min read

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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