An international team of researchers and restoration practitioners will get together in Trondheim, Norway to discuss the most relevant issues of contemporary peatland research and management.
Time and venue: 21.8.2023, NINA-huset, Trondheim
General: Registration by 17.8.2023
Registration - Peatland seminar and field excursion
Scope: An international team of researchers and restoration practitioners will get together in Trondheim, Norway to discuss the most relevant issues of contemporary peatland research and management. We will be addressing Norwegian and Nordic aspects of peatlands but will also discuss the most relevant international findings from international team, mainly from Poland and Central Europe. The topics of presentations and discussion include the ecology, hydrology and biogeochemistry of near-natural and restored peatlands, as well as introduction for pluviculture (wet-farming) including the novel value creation options it may provide. We cordially invite all of you, who are either working with or interested in peatlands, water, greenhouse gases, ecology, environmental policy and management to discuss these topics with us.
Organization: The seminar is provided in the framework of following projects
- FORCE that received funding from the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 (grant No. 2019/34/H/ST10/00711).
- PEATWAY funded by the Research Council of Norway (decision no: 336041)
- BIODIVERSA+ funded projects PRINCESS and ReVersal (Nr. 2021/03/YST10/00093)
- “Protection of valuable ecosystems of Bory Tucholskie” financed by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area for 2014-2021 under the “Environment, Energy and Climate Change” Program of the EEA Ministry of Finance 2014-2021.
- PEATFLAMES, Funded by National Science Centre, Poland, Nr 2021/41/B/ST10/00060
Agenda:
11:30 – 12:00: LUNCH (Restaurant at NINA -huset)
12:00 -12:05: Welcome address - Signe Nybø, Research Director, NINA (AMFI)
12:05-12:10: Welcome address - Tomasz Okruszko – Vice Rector for Science, SGGW (AMFI)
PEATLAND CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION – GENERAL OVERVIEW (AMFI)
Chair: Hanna Silvennoinen
12:10-12:30
Challenges in peatland conservation and restoration: the global and European perspective – Wiktor Kotowski
12:30-12:50
Identifying tipping points and critical transitions for ecosystem functioning in peatlands - Mariusz Lamentowicz
12:50-13:10
FORCE - Natural peatlands, water, gases & climate – Mateusz Grygoruk
13:10-13:30: BREAK
PALUDICULTURE (AMFI)
Chair: Mateusz Grygoruk
13:30-13:50
Novel value chains and climate change mitigation from paludiculture – Nordic perspective – Kristiina Lång
13:50-14:10
Hay fens - traditional paludiculture in Norway - Anders Lyngstad
14:10-14:30
PEATWAY & PRINCESS – Paludiculture effects on ecosystems - Hanna Silvennoinen
14:30-15:00 Discussion
15:00-15:30 BREAK
PEATLAND MANAGEMENT (AMFI)
Chair: Mariusz Lamentowicz
15:30-15:50
Expanding Ecosystem Restoration in the UN Restoration Decade – status and plans for Norway – Dagmar Hagen
15:50-16:00
Carbon calculator for peatlands – Magni Olsen Kyrkjeeide
16:00-16:20
Wetlands, water management & climate change – where are the pitfalls? – Tomasz Okruszko
16:20-16:40
Restoration under pressure – years of experience in mitigation of stakeholders in peatland restoration in Kampinos, Poland – Michał Miazga
16:40-17:00
Changes, changes and changes. Managing largest Polish wetlands – lessons from preparation of management plan in Biebrza National Park – Piotr Banaszuk
POSTERS (17:00 – 19:00, AMFI)
Chairs: Wiktor Kotowski & Anders Lyngstad
19:00 DINNER (Restaurant at NINA-huset)
Poster list:
- To see the unseen – geophysical research of mires - Grzegorz Sinicyn
- Peatlands in pine plantations - Katarzyna Marcisz
- Using remote sensing products to assess peatlands subsidence - Pouya Ghezel Ayagh
- Numerical approach to wetland hydrology - Krzysztof Kochanek & Maria Grodzka-Łukaszewska
- Charcoal production in medieval central Europe and its environmental consequences - Michał Słowiński
- High-resolution record of past hydrological changes and fires in Estonia - Harry Roberts
- Restoration of wetlands in Polish forests - Agnieszka Gawron
- Assessing the hydrological success of bog restoration in Norway - Marta Stachowicz
- #MoseVis: social media pen pals, undead bog bodies, painting and music – creative communication to evoke interest and empathy for peatlands - Fia Bengtsson & Magni Olsen Kyrkjeeide
- Controls of soil functions and greenhouse gas emissions in rewetted peatlands - Emilie Gios