The last few months have been pretty varied: field work, data analysis, papers, and I squeezed in a holiday to explore more of the Falklands.
Field work for the peatland greenhouse gas (GHG) project is still in full swing, and peatland GHG project officer Ajosh Vijayan over at Falklands Conservation is doing a fantastic job maintaining flux towers and keeping chamber measurements going, allowing me time to delve into the data. I’ve been busy calculating gas fluxes and we now have over 10,000 carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes calculated from nearly 3500 chamber measurements.
I’ve been over on Weddell Island with Ko downloading soil moisture, soil temperature and air temperature data from 20 loggers across the island (thanks to Natalie Smith for the photos!). It was brilliant to see how the landscape and habitats varied across the island: hills, plains, tussac, and I was particularly interested to see the wildfire site which burned a century ago.
Before coming to SAERI I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in peatland wildfire ecohydrology. I’m pleased to say a couple of papers I’m co-author of from my time in the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab, Canada, have recently been published:
