Peter Whittington
Professor
Geography
Brandon University
Canada
Biography
He completed my Master’s degree at the University of Waterloo from 2003 -2005. My work was the first ever field-scale climate change experiment in a peatland and provided valuable insight into what might happen to peatlands under a 2 x CO2 climate change scenario. We achieved surrogacy by draining peatland ponds (one in a fen, one in a bog) 20 cm (the expected water table decline under a warmer climate) and measure the results against un-impacted ponds (as a control).
Research Interest
Her current research is focused in eastern Manitoba at the Moss Spur peatland. This peatland was abandoned ~20 years ago but has done a remarkable job at re-growing all by itself, something you do not see in abandoned Quebec peatlands.
