##  [Webinar - Applied Research on Mitigating and Restoring In-Situ Footprint on Boreal Peatlands](/resource/webinar-applied-research-mitigating-and-restoring-situ-footprint-boreal-peatlands) 

Organization

[Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC)](/organization/ducks-unlimited-canada-duc)

[NAIT Centre for Boreal Research (NAIT CBR)](/organization/nait-centre-boreal-research-nait-cbr)

 

 

Project

[Wetland Knowledge Exchange](/project/wetland-knowledge-exchange)

 

Resource Type

[Video](/taxonomy/term/1402)

 

 

Author(s)

Bin Xu

 

 

Original Authors

Bin Xu

 

 

Contacts

[Bin Xu](/contact/bin-xu)

 

 

Resource Date:

March

2017

 

 

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.