EPA funded CH4 peat project

   This project will employ the state-of-the-art monitoring with process-based models to improve understanding of CH4 emissions from rewetted peatlands. The project aims to improve the current National Inventory Reporting methodologies by providing an analysis of GHG emission and removals and contributing to the development of site-specific tier 2 emission factors (EFs) from rewetted areas. 
  Dr. Amey Tilak, the Principal Investigator and Prof. Dr. Ken Byrne, the Mentor of the CH4PEAT, are based in the Biological Sciences Department at University of Limerick. The project leaders are really excited to embark on the journey of quantifying CH4 fluxes from rewetted areas and quantifying the dominant CH4 pathways from peat to the atmosphere using field measured data and process-based models. The process-based models will improve our understanding about the responses of the rewetted peatland and its biogeochemistry in the current and future climate change scenarios.  
The CH4 project is working in collaboration with two EPA funded projects i.e., CO2PEAT, N2OPEAT and other important project partners such as the Bord na Móna, National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) and other stakeholders to manage Ireland’s peatlands that maximizes the potential for climate change mitigation. For more information on CH4PEAT project, please follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CH4PEAT.