Food and bogs: the peatland larder
Putting bogs to one side for the briefest of moments, one of my other great passions in life is food. Since eating is something that all of us have to […]
The explosive science of volcanoes and peat bogs
Can you name a volcano? For many people, their answer to this question may be Mount St Helens. The eruption that took place there on the 18th May 1980 was actually relatively […]
Bogs and people: a Ugandan perspective
‘Ecosystem services’ might be a relatively recent term, but people have been exploiting bogs in many ways for centuries. Most obvious, and unfortunate given our present day knowledge of the […]
Spiders, snakes, swamps and … Elvis?! Two weeks on an Amazonian peatland
Tropical peatlands represent a large pool of terrestrial organic carbon and are found in Asia, Africa and South America. They are also under threat from the effects of burning, drainage, […]
Tropical testate amoebae as hydrological indicators?
Originally posted on From inside the shell:
Sampling testate amoebae in a tropical peatland. A recent paper in Microbial Ecology by Swindles et al. suggests that testate amoebae have good…
Teignmouth Science Café
I have a philosophy in life that if there’s something I want to achieve, but that’s also a bit scary, I’ll just say yes to it without too much thought […]
Peatland archaeology: more than just dismembered bodies!
If the popularity of Tom’s blog on bog bodies was anything to go by, then the finer details of peatland archaeology can be pretty engaging! It’s not hard to see […]
Bogs are beautiful: the art of peatlands (part 1)
Peat bogs are beautiful places. From the intricate patterns of a Sphagnum leaf up close to the sharp and colourful contrasts created by the different species on the bog surface, […]
How to core a peat bog
Peatlands are nature’s history books, storing up to 10,000 years of information on past climate change in their slowly accumulated layers. This is what Bogology is all about – extracting […]
Jargon busting and press release adjusting
In one way or another, since I started my PhD more years ago than I care to remember, NERC (the Natural Environment Research Council) have funded much of my time […]
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