Category Archives: Belgium

Gearing up our city microclimate plans

Posted on April 2, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Yesterday, we had a new member joining the team! It was a virtual first day at work, but we are very happy nonetheless to have her on board now: Camille will be managing our citizen science project on garden microclimates, … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Climate, Ecology, Fieldwork, Gardening, Microclimate, Outdoors, Science | Leave a comment

Sciencing at home

Posted on March 22, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

With all the social distancing across the world keeping us all at home, a lot of our fieldwork is being delayed. And that’s a bummer, as we just received a beautiful batch of ‘daggers’ to measure microclimate, and had fantastic … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Nature, Science | 1 Comment

Two firsts

Posted on February 29, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

This has been a very important week for The 3D Lab: two of our PhD-students submitted their first ever paper! Charly submitted his work on the climatic origin of urban plant invaders, a first in a series studying how the … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Cities, Ecology, Fieldwork, Invasive species, Mountains, Nature, Plants, Science, Travel | 1 Comment

How are the nights?

Posted on January 16, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Oh, how often comes that question: ‘And… how are the nights?’ Since Zoyla has been born, there has been a spark of interest into our sleeping habits, often accompagnied by worried looks for growing bags under my eyes. I could … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Baby, Baby daddy, Dadlife, Parenthood, Parenting, rstats, Science | Leave a comment

Climate impacts on your doorstep

Posted on January 13, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Extreme weather events are all over the news in recent years, with intense floodings in Asia, fires raging through Australia, and record heatwaves melting the asphalt in Western-Europe. We are all starting to feel the impact of the changing climate … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Citizen science, Climate, climate change, Flanders, Gardens, Global change, Global change ecology, Home, Science | 1 Comment

Dad in academia

Posted on December 19, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

On September 5th, my wife gave birth to a beautiful girl. On that day, our lifes went into a new, happier, fuller and much muore complicated phase: that of parenthood. From one day to the next, I became a ‘dad … Continue reading →