Honours & Grants

• Laura Baugh: Unravelling the true climate effect of peatland restoration
• Emma Duley: Understanding carbon vulnerability in UK peat-forming wet woodlands
• Helen Essell: Resolving issues with dating blanket peat using radiocarbon
• Morena Merkelbach: Exploring farmers’ motivations and barriers for adopting paludiculture (PI 3.2024)

• Samantha Mitchell: Historical ecology and soil carbon dynamics in peatlands impacted by industrial smelting contamination (Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) (PI 4.2024)
• Julia Morarin: Biodiversity Atlas: Abitibi and Eeyou Istchee wetlands (Quebec)
• Emelie Obi: MSc research – Climate change effects on peatland below-ground biotic communities

• Robert McHenry: Eco-hydrological and biodiversity effects of vehicular access roads in the context of forestry removal for restoration and infrastructure development (PI 2.2024)
• Raquel Fernandes: Remote sensing of invasive alien plants in Portuguese sublittoral peatlands (PI 4.2024)

• Antonia Hartmann: Master thesis – Greenhouse gas emissions from compacted peat soil
• Aamir Shehzad Khan: Large scale assessment of fen restoration in Canada (PI 4.2024)
• Bethany Copsey: Citizen Science Framework for Peatlands
• Anne Eberle: Iron-carbon interaction in thawing permafrost peatlands (PI 3.2024)

• Natasha Underwood: Ecological and biogeochemical benefits of environmental enhancements at Moorlinch (and beyond) on the Somerset Levels (report PI 2.2023)
• Olivia Kuuri-Riutta: The 10th meeting of International Society for Testate Amoeba Research (report PI 4.2023)
• Yvet Telgenkamp: Linking plant-microbe interaction stability to carbon cycling in peatlands (report PI 2.2023)
• Li Wang: Climatic and anthropogenic drivers of Holocene Scottish peatland dynamics (report PI 2.2023)

• Annuri Rossita: Ecosystem Services Assessment for Ecosystem-based Peatland Management (report PI 3.2023)
• Ennia Bosshard: Understanding plant-pollinator networks and their role in tropical peatland restoration (revoked due to change of site)
• Marie Maxwell: Peatlands on the Edge: Resilience of the ‘Limestone Pavement Bogs’ (added later)
• Thibaud Glaesener: Interests groups and conflicts towards a sustainable transformation of the Wietingsmoor

• Clarisse Brehier: Greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural pre-alpine fens: effect of rewetting (report PI 3.2021)
• Rani Carroll: Markers of the Anthropocene in south-eastern Australian peatlands (report PI 2.2022)
• Rosie Everett: Perspectives and Perceptions: The Art of Peatlands in Time (report PI 1.2023)
• Nurul Ihsan Fawzi: Conserving tropical peatland through water management for carbon neutral agriculture (report PI 2.2022)

• Liam Godwin: Restoration of peatland catchments for river water quality and wildlife (report PI 4.2022)
• Eva Ntara: Restoring peatlands through art-The case of Ondiri swamp, Kenya (report PI 2.2022)
• Eva Marie Weber: Master thesis – early stage vegetation dynamics of rewetted peatlands (report PI 1.2023)
• Sophie Wilkinson: The impact of triple-disturbance on peatland hydrological conditions and re-burn potential (report PI 4.2022)

• Dael Sassoon, University of Manchester: Ecosystem dynamics of Amazonian open peatlands during the Late Holocene (report PI 2.2021)
• Clare Profous, Masters Student at NUI Galway (Human Rights Law): Ireland’s Just Transition Plan – The Midlands (report PI 1.2021)
• Thomas Newman, Univeristy of Leicester: Carbon loss from agricultural fen peatlands in the UK (report PI 2.2021)
• Sanna Piilo, University of Helsinki: Attending IPC2020 and presenting my research in Tallinn (report PI 4.2021)
• Monika Ruwaimana, University of Oregon: Tropical peat researcher from Indonesia (report PI 4.2021)

• Made Dirgantara, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Palangka Raya: Sustainability of Tropical Peatlands: Fires Mitigation (report submitted)
• Farina de Waard, University of Greifswald, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology: Global distribution and patterns of fire on peatlands (report PI 1.2023)
• Mareille Wittnebel, Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture: Soil organic carbon stocks of managed peat soils in Germany (report PI 3.2021)
• Benjamin Freeman, Bangor University: First conference for PhD student research on responsible peatland management (report PI 4.2021)
• Hannes Keck, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences: Investigating controlling variables of greenhouse gas fluxes from agricultural peatlands (report PI 2.2023)

• Monika Aarniste (EST), Tallinn University of Technology: Digitalized database of Estonian peatlands
• Luke Andrews (WAL), University of York: Peatlands and climate change: Using the past as a key to the future
•  Scott Davidson (SCO), University of Waterloo:  Impact of wildfire on methane emissions from a continental boreal peatland
• Ian Detrey (ENG), The University of the Highlands and Islands: Bog in a box; long term peat storage for rehabilitation
• Abigail Gwynn (ENG), University of Exeter: Effects of Peatland Forest Fires on Orangutan Behaviour and Health
• William Jessop (ENG), University of York: Creating Sustainably Wooded Peatlands

• Claire McVeigh (IRL), Queen’s University Belfast: Weathering below blanket bogs and potential impacts on carbon dynamics
• Christopher Schulze (GER), University of Alberta: Pathways of nitrogen in thawing permafrost peatlands in subarctic Canada
• Amanda Sinclair (AUS), RMIT University: Physical and chemical properties of tropical peat informing peatland restoration
• Lauren Thompson (CAN), University of Alberta: Mercury export from thawing permafrost peatlands

• Danielle Rupp, Michigan Technological University, USDA (Forest Service) Northern Research Station: Elucidating carbon cycle pathways in a boreal rich fen using a pulse-chase experiment
• Elisa Männistö, University of Eastern Finland: Travel and participation fee for EGU General Assembly 2018
• Henk Pieter Sterk, Environmental Research Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK: PAR sensors funding for upscaling peatland condition research in Scotland
• Hui Zhang, University of Helsinki: To attend 5th European Conference on Permafrost

• Jasmijn E. Sybenga, University of the Highlands and Islands: Seeing the Wood for the Trees: a palaeoecological approach into the research of past natural woodland in the Scottish Highlands
• Jerome Blewett, University of Bristol: Biomarkers and genomics to constrain biogeochemistry in modern/ancient peatlands
• Kirsten Lees, University of Reading: Measuring carbon sequestration in peatlands using remote sensing
• Martha Ledger, University of Nottingham: Determining regional-scale carbon losses from tropical peatlands using InSAR

• Research information dissemination and review of Lesotho wetlands(peatlands) monitoring protocols, Motseko Mots’ets’e, National University of Lesotho
• Interactions between microtopography, habitat heterogeneity and plant nutrition on peatlands, Chris Hatcher, Loughborough University, UK
• Measuring restoration progress using water chemistry in formerly afforested bogs, Paul Gaffney, Environmental Research Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK
• Greenhouse gas emissions after Sphagnum harvesting: finding the study sites, Aino Korrensalo, University of Eastern Finland

• Carbon emissions from a thawing permafrost peatland, Liam Heffernan, University of Alberta
• Soil organic carbon in Icelandic peatlands: formation, stability and decomposition, Susanne Claudia Möckel, University of Iceland, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
• Late Glacial and Holocene environmental changes in Western Polesie (Eastern Poland) recorded in the sediments of alkaline fens, Jarosław Pietruczuk, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland
• Travel and registration fee for IPS 2017 (Visa application did not succeed), Hongxing He, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden – retained

500 €

• André Vicente Liz, Universidade Santiago de Compostela
• Dhandapani Selvakumar, University of Nottingham
• Mizuki Morishita, Department of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Ariane Blier-Langdeau, PERG/Université Laval/CEN
• Alison Hoyt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

250 €

• Chloe Brown, University of Nottingham
• Nicholas Girkin, University of Nottingham
• Emma Brown, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK
• Kartika Hapsari, University of Goettingen
• Mari Parkkari, Natural Resources Institute Finland
• Hanifah Nurul Atilia Shafienaz, Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute
• Herman Maraden, APRIL Asia
• Norliyana Zin Zawawi, University of Aberdeen
• Meli Fitriani Saragi, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), CIFOR
• Nisa Novita, Oregon State University
• Sara Thornton, University of Leicester
• Randi Ade Candra, Universitas Tanjungpura, Indonesia

• Joss Ratcliffe (Scotland): Age 25; Ph.D. Student at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Thurso who is studying ecosystem functioning in two bogs in New Zealand; his grant will go towards the cost of specialised scanning equipment.
• Anne-Helena Purre (Estonia): Age 26; Ph.D. student at the University of Tallinn who is studying carbon dioxide flux in forestry drained and restored peatlands; her grant will be used to assist with travel costs for field work.
• Nisa Novita (Indonesia): Age 28; Ph.D. student at Oregon State University in the USA who is studying greenhouse gas fluxes associated with land use changes in Indonesia; her grant will go towards the purchase of a replacement probe for a field meter and also conference travel.

• Sara Anne Thornton (England); Age 23; Ph.D. student at the University of Leicester who is studying the benefits and values provided by tropical peat swamp forests in Borneo; her grant will help continue and complete field work.
• Tadgh Ó Corcora (Ireland); Age 30; Conservation Officer with the Irish Peatland Conservation Council; his grant will go towards the cost of equipment to undertake Sphagnum moss transfer for bog restoration and to train 10 volunteers.