PEAT Needs

Funding for Peatland ECR

Apply for micro-funds during the summer field season

There are expenses coming up during the summer of 2023 that you need to pay for, but you don’t know how to finance them?

Financial support of Peatland ECR during the 2023 summer field season!

Thanks to the peatland-loving community, we are able to provide Peat ECR with micro-funds. The profits of the 2023 PEAT Calendar, which sold like hot cakes, along with other generous donations, allow us to bring back #PeatNeeds for the third summer field season – the season of 2023!

We will fund three lucky Peat ECR with up to $100 CAD each, during the three major field season months – June, July, August 2023.

Requirements

  • You are a Peat ECR (students and early career professionals within 7 years of terminal degree)
  • You work in a peat/peatland-related project

There are no country or age restrictions! All Peat ECR from anywhere in the world and any age category are eligible to apply (if requirements mentioned above apply).

Fundable expenses can include:

  • New personal field gear
  • Work-from-home equipment
  • Manuscript proofreading
  • Technical courses (to expand your skills in, i.e. statistics, ecology, Indigenous knowledge, etc.)
  • Other not listed expenses that you are free to convince us to fund 😉

For more informations and to submit your application, please check and fill out the

PEAT Needs form

Submission deadlines are the respective last day of the month, prior the funding month.

PEAT Needs Winners – August 2022

  • Michelle Kalamandeen collaborates with indigenous communities to map the carbon stocks in the Hudson and James Bay Lowlands, Canada.
  • Charuni Jayasekara studying Carbon dynamics of the Australian Alpine and Tropical peatlands.
  • Dingha Babila working on improving governance for sustainable utilisation of peatlands in Cameroon.

PEAT Needs Winners – July 2022

  • Jessica Turner studying the relationship between the partial pressure of CO2 in wetland surface waters and wetland CO2 fluxes
  • María Fernanda Chiappero aiming to underst the mechanisms through which different biotic and abiotic factors determine soil C stocks of vegas, particular Andean wetlands, along an altitudinal gradient
  • Alanna Bodo participates in a workshop on visual abstracts/infographics for her studies as dedicated peatland biometeorologist.

PEAT Needs Winners – June 2022

  • @yvettelgenkamp
    Yvet Telgenkamp, studying plant-microbe interactions in Northern Peatlands at Radboud University Nijmegen
  • @cheristyjones
    Cheristy Jones, studying terrestrial-aquatic linkages and C-cycling in the Arctic at Colorado College
  • @RominaTresEles
    Romina Llanos studying paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction of Andean peatlands during the Holocene

PEAT Needs Winners – 2021

  • Alexis Stansfield from Lehigh University, working on modelling peat core hiatus causes using the Holocene Peat Model
  • Wahaj Habib, PhD student at Trinity College Dublin, studying management impacts on peatland function
  • Elena Aitova, studying to restore the carbon storage capacity of peatlands

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