Peatland Exchanges #1: Past environments of peatlands
Peatland Exchange#1: Past environments of peatlands
An online event on Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 14.00 CET
--Why is it important to date peat from the depths of raised bogs, many of which have now been dug away?
--Can science help reconstruct how water flowed and where bog iron ores developed?
--How might an artist begin to think about such scales of time and space?
The program explored these questions with Head of World Soil Museum Stephan Mantel, WUR Assistant Professor in Soil Geography and Landscape (SGL) and Cultural Geography (GEO) Roy van Beek, WUR PhD candidates in Soil Geography and Landscape Group Cindy Quik and Aukjen Nauta, and artist Kate Foster.
00:00:00 Program Welcome and Introduction to ISRIC World Soil Museum, Stephan Mantel, head of museum, ISRIC - World Soil Information
00:04:26 Review of peat soil monolith
00:07:11 Introducing Peatland Exchanges, dr. Roy van Beek, asst professor Soil Geography & Landscape Group / Cultural Geography Group, Wageningen University & Research
00:22:35 Travelling through time: the peat archives, Cindy Quik MSc, PhD candidate Soil Geography & Landscape Group, Wageningen University & Research
00:47:32 Break
01:00:18 In search for historic bog iron ore deposits, Aukjen Nauta MSc, PhD candidate Soil Geography & Landscape Group, Wageningen University & Research
01:15:37 Sensing a peatbog in time, Kate Foster. environmental artist and 2022 World Soil Museum artist-in-residence (See more about Kate's response to each researcher and her presentation slides here: https://peatcultures.wordpress.com/20...)
01:38:10 Group discussion with audience participation
Peatland Exchanges is a collaborative initiative of 2022 ISRIC World Soil Museum artist-in-residence Kate Foster. It is a four-part online series of researchers talks for the wider community on peatland-related topics in partnership with Wageningen University and Research’s (WUR) Home Turf and Wetfutures projects as well as Drents Museum.
Learn more about the initiatives and institutions represented in the Peatland Exchanges Series:
--Kate Foster's portfolio https://linktr.ee/katefoster
--Home Turf Project http://www.boglandscapes.eu/
--Wetfutures http://www.wetfutures.eu/about.html
--World Soil Museum https://wsm.isric.org/
--Wageningen University and Research Soil Geography & Landscape Group, https://www.wur.nl/en/research-result...