New member services
The new website of the IPS offers a range of new services for its members. Please find further information below - or login, open the menu items on the left and follow instructions as soon as you have received your personal user name and password (all IPS members will receive those automatically within the next few days).
Proceedings, documents and brochures
For the first time, you are enabled to view and download the proceedings of International Peat Congresses, peat and peatland symposia, workshops and similar events as PDF files for your own use. So far those were available only in print from our online shop or at the actual meeting. Please login and click on the headlines of each paper for more information.
Currently we are adding the papers of the 13th International Peat Congress "After Wise Use - The Future of Peatlands" (2008) to the database, all others will follow soon after that. In the same database, you will also find previous issues of the IPS magazine Peatlands International and our newsletter Peat News as PDF files. When logged in, you are also allowed to upload documents for which you or IPS own copyrights.
Membership database
In addition, it is now possible to see and contact other IPS members via our member database, if they have made their data available to other members. The IPS member list of approximately 1500 persons and organisations is managed online now - but all information is hidden until our members have each released their own information by checking a special box at the bottom of their membership information sheet. You are welcome and encouraged to open your own contact details, too - maybe you even want to add your picture?
Peat Dictionary
Furthermore, the very popular Peat Dictionary (1984) can be accessed as electronic application at the special IPS member pages. This contains peat and mire terminology in five different languages: English, Russian, Swedish, Finnish and German and is very easy to use.
Jobs and research opportunities
Last, but not least, members and others interested can browse open job and research positions related to mires, peat and peatlands. You can also post your own announcements when logged in.
How to sign in
Every member of the IPS will receive his user name and password by email or post. Please login at the left top of the website, review your contact information, change your password (recommended) and open your information to other members (optional, check box) when you login for the first time. After that, you are welcome to browse member content directly as soon as you log in.
If you are not a member of the IPS yet, but would like to join, please follow instructions here.
Important
Please note that lost passwords can only be retrieved from this website, they are not stored at the IPS Secretariat.
In any given case do not share your access information with colleagues at any time. This would give them also access to your personal entry in the IPS membership list.You rather might want to invite them as members, or add their contact details to an existing corporate account (max six names).
If you delete your entry at the membership database, this will end your IPS membership and your membership in the National Committee in your country.
We do not give any contact information of our members to third parties.
Further information can be found by using the links on the left.
