Dear All,

I'm planning to sample peat pore-waters to study volatile fatty acid
turnover,  and am interested in finding out more about 'peepers'. AIU they
are samplers with a permeable membrane which can be filled with distilled
water, emplaced in the peatbody and left to equilibrate with the
porewaters. I have used other more conventional methods in the past so if
anyone has any experience of using 'peepers', I'd be grateful for their
comments and a contact number of manufacturers.

Comments on any other method of porewater sampling are also appreciated. In
the past I've  cored the peat and then squeezed the water from the cores,
but I'd prefer to try another method that doesn't involve extracting so
much peat.

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Susan

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Dr. Susan Waldron,
Life Sciences Community Stable Isotope Facility,
Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre,
East Kilbride G75 0QF,
Scotland.

Tel: (01355) 270135
Fax: (01355) 229898
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