The Peatland Restoration program at the NAIT Boreal Research Institute was established in 2012 with joint industry and NSERC funding to develop practical, cost-effective technologies and solutions to restore boreal peatlands disturbed by in-situ O&G activities in NW Alberta. Since its inception, the applied peatland research at NBRI has expanded to projects on understanding and mitigating potential industrial activities’ impacts on peatlands through better decision making and management practices. In this webinar, I will first present several peatland restoration trials on in-situ well pads and winter access roads and their current progress and early findings. Second, I will present a collaborative study on benchmarking the impacts of access roads built through a bog and a fen in terms of GHG balance and overall ecosystem structure and function. I will discuss our efforts to combine plot level GHG measurements with detailed maps of water table, biomass and surface microtopography developed using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to estimate ecosystem-scale emissions and potential for emission reductions at the lease- and watershed-scales. Lastly, I will discuss how our applied research has influenced peatland policy development and implementation through field studies and training schools.