Watching it unfold: the creative economies of live-streamed extreme events (Simon Dickinson, University of Plymouth)
This seminar examines how creative live digital content mediates encounters with extreme weather and hazard events. Across platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and Discord, content creators increasingly act as interpreters, curators and performers of unfolding crises. They translate complex event dynamics into accessible and affectively engaging narratives. In doing so, they shape not only how events are understood, but also how audiences participate in them.
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Marie-Eve Drouin-Gagné, INRS-UQAT (Title: TBA)
Sandra Klemet-N'Guessan, University of Waterloo (Title: TBA)
Two sides of the same coin?: Anoxic microsites and the fate of soil carbon (Emily Lacroix, Dartmouth College)
Anoxic microsites – pockets of oxygen depletion in otherwise oxic soils and sediments – are increasingly recognized as key regulators of multiple soil biogeochemical cycles, including carbon dynamics. Yet despite their potential importance, anoxic microsites and their biogeochemical influence remain poorly understood. In this talk, we examine the factors controlling anoxic microsite formation and their net influence on soil organic carbon cycling.
Three decades of research at Mer Bleue bog: results, unknowns and integration (Tim Moore, McGill University)
Three decades ago, a group of ‘peatland people’ established a research site at Mer Bleue, a large ombrotrophic bog east of Ottawa, with the intent of determining the bog’s carbon cycling by establishing experiments and making measurements over several years, in contrast to the popular but short-lived studies such as the Northern Wetland Study and BOREAS. The site represented an important peatland class in southern Canada, was readily accessible and was