C-PEAT’s ongoing databases include:

1- the Global Carbon Database, which is available through PANGAEA. New contributions are always welcome; please download this template and email your data sheet(s) to juloisel@hotmail.com. We require that data contributors use 1 sheet for each peat core, even if multiple cores were collected from the same site.

2- the Global Paleo Database, which is under construction and will be made available through Neotoma. Please email sanderson.nicole@uqam.ca with questions.

C-PEAT, in collaboration with PAGES and Future Earth, took part in the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2021. Our team presented at the Peatland Pavilion organized by the Global Peatlands Initiative.

The C-PEAT event took place on November 5th 2021 from 19:00 to 21:30. The following pieces were prepared for the event; they will remain available to the public after the convention.

1: Interactive Peatland Map: here we showcase >75 sites from 20 countries that have been studied by the C-PEAT scientific community. The map is combined with a real peat core library (photos to come). This part of the exhibit helps people appreciate where peatlands are located and what peat looks like. The peatland map layer (in green) comes from a recent scientific publication by Xu et al. To see pictures and videos from the study site, and access site information, simply click on the purple markers on the map below. The map was created by Sedrick Utt, an undergraduate student researcher in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University.

2. Artistic rendition of peatland landscapes: Patrick Campbell has drawn a peat core and 6 landscapes that represent different stages in a peatland's development, as they would be inferred from different proxies (which he also drew). This part of the exhibit conveys that peatlands are beautiful ecosystems and valuable archives of past environmental change that can be used to help inform land management and restoration/conservation efforts. The artist has also created a GIS StoryMap on peatlands.