From steaming swamp to blanket bog: an exhibition of photographs taken during field work in the peatlands of the Peruvian Amazon
The peatlands exhibition ‘live’ at the St Andrews Botanic … Read more
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Peatland pole forests: the most carbon dense ecosystem in Amazonia
Dr Euridice Honorio del Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana led the recent paper entitled Intensive field sampling increases the known extent of carbon-rich Amazonian peatland pole forests in collaboration with Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Leeds, University of St Andrews, and several other institutions. This paper, published at Environmental Research Letter, will let … Read more
Peatland pole forests: the most carbon dense ecosystem in Amazonia
Dr Euridice Honorio led the recent paper entitled Intensive field sampling increases the known extent of carbon-rich Amazonian peatland pole forests in collaboration with Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Leeds, University of St Andrews, and several other institutions. This paper, published at Environmental Research Letter, will let you find out about the most carbon dense … Read more
Prof Nina Laurie interviewed for Attalea magazine
Following Nina’s recent award of the RGS-IBG Busk Medal for her contribution to social inclusion, international development, and environmental sustainability through fieldwork and research, Nina was interviewed for Attalea magazine, the outreach journal of the Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP). The interview is posted here in English and in Spanish. Entrevista-Nina-Laurie Entrevista-Nina-Laurie-English
Peruvian Peatlands – an interview for Attalea magazine
TWC collaborator Manuel Martín Brañas interviewed Katy Roucoux last month on behalf of Attalea magazine, an outreach magazine published by the Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon (Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, IIAP). The interview is out now. You can find the full issue of the magazine Attalea, and just the interview in … Read more
Hope in the tropical peatlands of the Peruvian Amazon and Congo Basin, by Camille Choquet
Somehow charmed by the Amazonian mosquito-infested swamps during a first internship at the IIAP (Instituto de las Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana), I wanted to know more about these amazing ecosystems, a chance that Katy and Ian gave me by supervising my final internship on tropical peatlands at the University of St Andrews. Freshly arrived … Read more
How the Amazonian peatlands in Peru came to be described
As we all, from Iquitos to Leeds and St Andrews, battle with COVID-19, our research is not the main challenge that we face at the moment, but perhaps a welcome distraction to help us face all the current uncertainty. I have taken some time to make our recent book chapter on conserving the Amazonian peatlands … Read more
Impressions on my session at the INQUA Congress, Dublin 2019
This summer I convened a session at the 20th congress of the International Quaternary Association in Dublin. A large international conference of over 2000 delegates, the focus of the conference was the Earth and its ecosystems from 2.6 million years ago up to the present (the Quaternary period) and into the future. My session was … Read more
Fieldwork in Veinte de Enero, by Dael Sassoon
Dael tries out the method for measuring hydraulic conductivity (honest). The 4th of May marked the beginning of fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon for many of us. In the first week of our trip, it was a pleasure to spend time with the researchers from IIAP organising logistics and discussing fieldwork plans. After a week … Read more
A visit to the Urarina in the Chambira basin, by Luis Andueza
Photos: the new settlement of Nueva Union (top) and Nueva Pandora (below). During the last weeks of February and the first weeks of March a team of 7 people from different institutions—including the University of St Andrews, IIAP, the Universidad Católica de Lima, and the Ministry of Culture—made a 10 day visit to the Chambira … Read more