Our last week of peat coring in the AUGER project. Over two years, we have taken nearly 300 cores across a wide range of peatland land categories - pristine, grassland, peat extraction (domestic and industrial) and forested sites. Our deepest core was around 9m and the most shallow was 0.5m. The data will feed into the ECOSSE model and forms the basis of PhD student Kilian Walz’s thesis.
Pristine blanket bog, Co. Donegal. Photo: David Wilson