President’s Dialogue Series with Maria Strack: Peatlands as Natural Climate Solutions - From Global Potential to Local Action

Speaker Spotlight: Maria Strack

Maria Strack is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at University of Waterloo and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Ecosystems and Climate. She has built an innovative and internationally recognized research program investigating peatland greenhouse gas exchange with a focus on managed ecosystems, including instrumented peatland restoration sites across Canada. 

She also currently leads the Can-Peat project that aims to improve quantification of the potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions through management of Canadian peatlands. Results from her research have been incorporated in Canada’s GHG National Inventory Report and she was a lead author the IPCC’s Wetland Supplement for National GHG reporting and UNEP’s Global Peatlands Assessment. 

Dr. Strack also served as a member of Canada’s Nature Based Climate Solutions Advisory Committee (2021-2023).