A bog by any other name…
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Well, it might be true of roses, but when it comes […]
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Into the wild – peat in Alaska’s far north
Being a Bogologist is a great job. Not only do I get to do something for a living that interests me a great deal, I get to travel the world […]
Sphagnum moss: bog plant extraordinaire!
If you have been surfing the pages of Bogology, you will have come across a fair few mentions of Sphagnum moss. Since this is such an important plant species to […]
Iconic British peatland to be restored to its former glory
One month into my PhD at the University of Southampton in October 2004, as a rather green Bogologist with lots of ideas but little experience, I headed up to the […]
Antarctic moss gets five minutes of fame!
Last month, the first publication from the project I am working on studying moss banks along the Antarctic Peninsula (see project website here) was published in the journal Current Biology. […]
Turning depth to time using tephra: a cautionary note?
Without applying a chronology, or timescale, to the data we derive from our peat cores, the information is largely meaningless. It is only when we swap depths for ages that […]
Core blimey!
I must confess something. I have shamelessly stolen the title of this blog post from Matt’s excellent article about fieldwork in eastern Canada. You can read that article here, but […]
The Antarctic Peninsula – not where you would expect a Bogologist?
Even sitting here writing about it some six months later, the mere fact I went to Antarctica on fieldwork seems somewhat incredulous. My journey into Bogology started on Dartmoor almost […]
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