European Geoscience Union 2025: There are various papers at EGU2025 from the Peat Metal team and colleagues – if you’re attending, please come along!
- Shuttleworth et al. (2025) Understanding the potential for disturbance-induced contaminant release from degraded peatlands: a global review of heavy metals in peatlands.
- Moore et al. (2025) Northern peatlands under fire: Projecting smouldering combustion loss in an uncertain future with implications for atmospheric metal emissions.
- Fewster et al. (2025) Global stocks and release pathways of pollutants in peatlands.
- McCarter et al. (2025) Does returning Sphagnum moss to toxic metal polluted peatlands increase aqueous metal mobility?
- Goud et al. (2025) Restoring metal contaminated peatlands in Sudbury, Ontario
Publications (2023 – present) – recent papers from members of the Peat Metal team:
Marcotte, A.L., Limpens, J., Belcher, C.M., Chiverrell, R.C., Clay, G.D., Doerr, S.H., Krause, S., Khamis, K., Magnusson, R.I., Neris, J., Nunes, J.P., Pompeani, D.P., Santin, C., Shuttleworth, E.L., Ullah, S., Warburton, J., Kettridge, N. (accepted) Potable water sources in a contaminated temperate peatland resistant to acute impacts but vulnerable to legacy effects of extreme wildfire. Environmental Research: Water. doi: 10.1088/3033-4942/add04a
McCarter, C.P.R., Tutt, E., Moore, P.A., Furukawa, A.F, Verkaik, G.J., Wilkinson, S.L., Whittington, P., Waddington, J.M. (2024) Hydrophysical Properties of Peat in Undisturbed and Smelter-Impacted Peatlands: Implications for Moss Recovery, Drought and Wildfire. Hydrological Processes, 38, e70034.
Sutton, O.F., McCarter, C.P.R., Waddington, J.M. (2024) Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape. Environmental Research Letters, 19, 064024.
McCarter, C.P.R., Clay, G.D., Wilkinson, S.L., Sigmund, G., Davidson, S.J., Taufik, M., Page, S., Shuttleworth, E.L., McLagan, D., Chenier, G., Clark, A., Waddington, J.M. (2024) Peat fires and legacy toxic metal release: An integrative biogeochemical and ecohydrological conceptual framework. Earth-Science Reviews, 256, 104867.
McCarter, C.P.R., Clay, G.D., Wilkinson, S.L., Page, S., Shuttleworth, E.L., Davidson, S.J., Taufik, M., Sigmund, G., Waddington, J.M. (2023) Peat fires and the unknown risk of legacy metal and metalloid pollution. Environmental Research Letters, 18, 071003.
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