Dr Nicole Balliston
@n_ballist
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Peatland hydrologist with a hint of carbon. Posdoc @GhgLab. My ❤️ is in the HBL. Blue collar girl in a white collar world | 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦she/her
Waterloo, Ontario
Joined August 2018
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Soil coring, vegetation surveys, MET station and well installs, and most importantly exchanging friendship and knowledge with our colleagues and guides from Peawanuck. Just the beginning of Climate Adapts indigenous led and operated hydrological monitoring network!
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Returned to drop some incredible pictures of my recent trip to the mouth of the Winisk. Hard to summarize such a monumental moment in my life working with Amy Cloutier of @Mushkegowuk 's Climate Adapt Program and my colleagues at @SarahFinkelste5 's research group.
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I recently came across data on who we spend our time with over the course of our lives. The insights are simultaneously inspiring and depressing. Here are 6 graphs everyone needs to see:
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By developing on wetlands and existing CA land this statement is FALSE “Conservation authorities are still going to play the role they were born to play, which is to protect people and property from flooding and natural hazards…” I think my MPP needs a hydrology 101 primer!
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I call it "The Overthinker"- but in all seriousness pretty proud to have officially closed this chapter of my life. #Waterloograd #phdone
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Ever wonder what mine de-watering does to surrounding #wetlands? Check out my latest publication investigating the impacts of drainage on #bog and #fen #peatlands in Ontario's North. Hint: largescale subsidence and hydrophysical change imminent
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Just when you think no one understands the struggle ;)
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Serious FOMO seeing all the tweets from friends, colleagues and students at #ESA2022 #CSEE2022 but @GhgLab is well represented. Check out cool #peatland talks by @ShinglerAbigail Aug 17 (today) 1030, COS151 @emgbotany Aug 18 900, COS209 @TLGauthier Aug 18 915, COS214
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Scorcher of a day for a run, pretty thankful for all the muds and suds @The5KFoamFest ! Go team o_O @LKeira
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When your friends @neblig_misty and Bryan get a personalized cake with one of your favorite thesis figures🥰#pbandyum #veganfood #literallytheicingonthecake
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Hey @LKeira its us!
As you're leaving your labs on the 4th floor of STC, we hope you're inspired by the painting "Lauren, Nicole, Emily and Alina in the lab"!
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Why protect and restore #peatlands? 💧Clean drinking #water 💚Less sediment into #rivers 🌍#CarbonCapture & #ClimateAction 🌼#Biodiversity 💙#Flood and #drought disaster prevention 🦋Beautiful #nature ✅#SDGs
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#PeatlandsMatter #ForNature #OnlyOnePlanet
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Peat could be a “carbon bomb” or a climate change solution.
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With my defense behind me it's time to start some new and exciting things!! More coming soon .. 😉 #wetlandsforlife #peatlandsmatter #differentkindofflux
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Swamp life! Loving the new field sites 😍
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A very happy sixth birthday to this loud, loving little panther queen! Whoever said cats are bad companions has never met this one #FridayThe13th #blackcatsarelucky #housepanther
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