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The International Peat Society (IPS) is a non-governmental, non-profit multidisciplinary organisation of scientific, industrial and regulatory members.

Currently it has 1,450 individual and instutional members from 36 countries.

The vision of the IPS is to be the authoritative international organisation on all aspects of peatlands and peat.

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Latest news

  • World Wetlands Day 2012
  • Annual Report 2011 Canadian National Committee
  • Executive Board and Scientific Advisory Board meetings 9-11 March in...
  • Annual Report Commission I - Stratigraphy, inventory and conservation...
  • Annual Reports Malaysia and Germany 2011
  • Award of Excellence Nomination Deadline: 31 January
  • Annual Report Commission VII: Forestry
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Online shop

  • International Peat Journal No. 8 - 1998
  • Peatlands and Climate Change
  • Peatlands International 1/2005
  • International Peat Journal No. 7 - 1997
  • Peatlands International 1/2003
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Document database

  • Peat News 7/2011
  • A distant landscape dimly seen: the bogs in 2050
  • Peat News 9/2011
  • IPS Annual Report 2010
  • Development of mires in Dury Reserve, Poland: implications for nature...
  • Peat News 2/2011
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Open positions

  • Communications Officer Wetlands International
  • Senior Research Associate for publication of annual CO2 budget
  • Postdoctoral research fellow in peatland science
  • Graduate Research Opportunity in Ecosystem Ecology
  • PhD in Plant Biology, Université Laval, Québec, Canada. Modelling...
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Peatland News

  • Carbon-credits.ie: Carbon Credits Can Be a Way to Preserve Peatlands in Ireland - PR Web (press release)
  • Group accuses Aceh leader of peatland destruction - Jakarta Post
  • Drought makes peat bogs release far more carbon - Planet Earth
  • Global-warming droughts threaten to unlock the C02 in our peat bogs - WalesOnline
  • Aceh's 'green' governor breaks Indonesia's moratorium by granting oil palm ... - Mongabay.com
  • Peatland palm oil has twice the CO2 emission as previously thought - Biofuels Digest
  • Climate Change Will Affect Peat More than Expected - PlanetSave.com
  • Peatlands 'overlooked' as carbon store - BBC News
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Scholar

  • Kaplan 2011: Instability in newly-established wetlands? Trajectories of floristic change in the re-flooded Hula peatland...
  • V. Chinan 2011: Macrofungi from Gradinita Peat Bog, Romania
  • Kimmo Virtanen & Samu Valpola 2011: Energy potential of Finnish peatlands
  • Xianyu Huang et al Dec 2011: Effect of different wetness conditions on Sphagnum lipid composition in the Erxianyan peatl...
  • Peter F. Newton Jan 2012: A silvicultural decision-support algorithm for density regulation within peatland black spruce...
  • P.G. Langdon et al Nov 2011: Regional climate change from peat stratigraphy for the mid- to late Holocene in Central Ire...
  • M. Long & N. Boylan Nov 2011: Discussion on ‘Peat slope failures and other mass movements in western Ireland, August...
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International Peat Society Vapaudenkatu 12 40100 Jyväskylä, Finland
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+358 14 3385 440
Fax.:
+358 14 3385 410
E-mail:
ips@peatsociety.org

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