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INCASE Project's Tale of Two Peatland Papers
“It was the best of peatlands, it was the worst of peatlands, it was the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, it was the Peatlands...
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Feb 17, 20223 min read
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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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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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Oct 3, 20211 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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