Author Archives: lembrechtsjonas

A true circus act

Posted on September 14, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

The sad thing about being a plant scientist is that those plants rarely put on an impressive show. Every now and then, I thus have to shift away from the plant- to the animal kingdom to get some more excitement and experience … Continue reading →

Posted in Spain | Tagged Animals, Birds, Gulls, Holiday, Nature, Ocean, Photography, Sea, Spain, Summer, Water, Wildlife | 4 Comments

Spain

Posted on September 11, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

From the high north to the south of Europe. From the cold-limited mountains in Lapland to the dry rocky mountain slopes of Catalonia in less than a week time. I am enjoying the end of the summer with a burning … Continue reading →

Posted in Spain | Tagged Catalonia, Hiking, Holiday, Mountains, Nature, Photography, Plants, Spain, Summer | 3 Comments

Holiday break

Posted on September 5, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

Autumn arrived in the Arctic with fast incoming clouds and drizzling rains, luckily exactly the day when the field season was over! I am now going to celebrate this second field season of my PhD with a deserved holiday to Spain, where summers … Continue reading →

Posted in Spain, Sweden | Tagged Abisko, arctic, Autumn, Ecology, Field season, Fieldwork, Photography, Scandinavia, Spain, Sweden, Travel | 4 Comments

Flying a helicopter

Posted on September 3, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

Our most remote plots involve hours of climbing on steep mountain slopes, through dense willow shrubs and over dry rocky areas. But not this time. This time we had to walk for 20 minutes to Abisko’s helicopter base and do the … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Adventure, arctic, flying, Helicopter, Holiday, Mountains, Photography, Scandinavia, Sweden, Travel, Travelling | 1 Comment

Please do not disturb

Posted on September 1, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

If you leave your experiment behind in the Scandinavian mountains, you will have to deal with the wildlife up there. We learned that lesson the hard way. It turns out that the high north houses a high density of reindeer, a fact we immediately noticed … Continue reading →