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The EPA Synthesis Report has now been published (opens in a new window)here. 

The FULL end-of-project report can be found here: AUGER Final report

Check out our Soil Carbon Infographic

Other publications linked to the project: 

Wilson, D., F. Mackin, J.-P. Tuovinen, G. Moser, C. Farrell & F. Renou-Wilson, 2022. Carbon and climate implications of rewetting a raised bog in Ireland.

Global Change Biology: DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16359.

(opens in a new window)https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16359

Premrov A. David Wilson, Matthew Saunders, Jagadeesh Yeluripati, Florence Renou-Wilson. 2021. CO2 fluxes from drained and rewetted peatlands using a new ECOSSE
model water table simulation approach. Science of the Total Environment 754 (2021) 142433.

Check out Twitter threads from @PeatyGHG, Dr David Wilson who was the curator of (opens in a new window)@IrelandsEnviro for a week in October 2022. Lots of tweets about (opens in a new window)#carbon, (opens in a new window)#peatlands and their role in global (opens in a new window)#climate regulation, unfolded here each day.

Monday thread on Peatlands and Carbon (the theme of the week for the @IrelandsEnviro (Ireland's environmentalist) curated by Dr David Wilson has been unfolded here: 

(opens in a new window)https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1581999120876982272.html

Tuesday thread on carbon cycling in natural peatlands:

(opens in a new window)https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1582355088449814529.html

Wednesday thread on peatlands, carbon emissions from peat extraction; the thread is unfolded here: 

(opens in a new window)https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1582705047477301249.html

Thursday thread on rewetting peatlands:

(opens in a new window)https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1583067938839412737.html

Friday thread on Peatlands and forestry: 

(opens in a new window)https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1583431853607829505.html

Saturday thread on Peatlands and grassland:

(opens in a new window)https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1583773089304698881.html

Sunday thread on the impact of climate change on peatlands was not unfolded but can be found here.

(opens in a new window)https://twitter.com/IrelandsEnviro/status/1584114836094713856

Other publications linked to the project: 

Wilson, D., F. Mackin, J.-P. Tuovinen, G. Moser, C. Farrell & F. Renou-Wilson, 2022. Carbon and climate implications of rewetting a raised bog in Ireland.

Global Change Biology: DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16359.

(opens in a new window)https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16359

Premrov A. David Wilson, Matthew Saunders, Jagadeesh Yeluripati, Florence Renou-Wilson. 2021. CO2 fluxes from drained and rewetted peatlands using a new ECOSSE
model water table simulation approach. Science of the Total Environment 754 (2021) 142433.

  • Dr Kilian Walz successfully complete his PhD thesis in May 2022 in University of Limerick; entitled: Assessment and modelling of the impact of land use on soil properties, and carbon and nitrogen stocks in Irish peatlands; supervisors: Dr Ken Byrne; Co-supervisor: Dr Florence Renou-Wilson.
  • Dr Kilian Walz presented at the EGU 2022 on 24.05.2022 within a special session “Soil organic and inorganic carbon stocks and dynamics in agro-ecosystems: mechanisms, measurements and modelling strategies (SSS9.7).

Authors: Kilian Walz; F. Renou-Wilson, D. Wilson and Ken Byrne

Title of presentation “Estimation of soil organic carbon and nitrogen stocks in Irish peatlands using a predictive modelling approach”.

AUGER presentations at EGU 2021 and IPS 2021:

 Premrov_EGU_2021

 Waltz_IPS_Tallin_2021

AUGER Presentations at EGU 2020: click on the PDFs:

Kilian Walz EGU 2020

Alina Premrov EGU 2020

AUGER Poster at EGU 2019: click here for PDF Kilian Walz EGU Poster

AUGER outreach publications

--> ~AUGER team appeared on "10 things to know about..." aired on 15th April 2019 on RTE (twitter account : @10things_ToKnow) click (opens in a new window)here 

10thingstoknow

 Dr Flo Renou-Wilson and Kilian Walz (PhD student) with Jonathan McCrea from the 10 things to know about team. 

--> Biodiveristy Week 2018

At Cloghjordan where Kilian Walz talked about the AUGER project

 

--> Peatlands restoration in Ireland and globally: Climate change - Society of Ecological Restoration SER NEWS June 2017

SER News

 

-->Peatland International Issues 1.2017 Click link below

Peat

-->EPA Newsletter APRIL 2017

AUGER Posters and Presentations: 


--> IPS Symposium, Aberdeen, May 2017 
Kilian Walz and Dr David Wilson presented a poster and an oral presentation respectively.  
 
 
 
 
--> FAO, Global Symposium on SOC, ROME MArch 2017
Dr Florence Renou-Wilson, Dr Ken Byrne and Kilian Walz attended this first Global Symposium on SOC.

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