Category Archives: Belgium

Blossoms

Posted on May 19, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

I arrived at that point in my PhD in which future project ideas grow wilder than the yellow buttercups in this meadow. As could be expected, finding the answers to my first set of questions brings lots of inspiration for … Continue reading →

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The red campion

Posted on May 7, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

It is funny to see the differences and similarities in plant species between the place where I work – northern Scandinavia – and the place where I live: Belgium. There are quite a few similarities in species, especially in the … Continue reading →

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Bluebell-beauties: a gallery

Posted on May 3, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Some eye candy: scroll through pictures of beeches and bluebells from the Hallerbos in the gallery on the right. As an assistant in the course on forest types at our university, I spent several hours of my springtime in the … Continue reading →

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Beech and bluebell

Posted on April 21, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

This week brought the field course to the ‘Hallerbos’, Brussels world-famous forest with the purple bluebell carpet. Of course it is mostly this endless see of purple that attracts the thousands and thousands of tourists every year (oh, dear lord, … Continue reading →

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Hallerbos

Posted on April 11, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Busy day at work today. I finished the finetuning of the first ‘big’ manuscript of my PhD-project, the first main goal we are working to. After some very productive moments of writing today, I sent it to my colleagues for … Continue reading →

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Spring rehearsal

Posted on April 4, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

  This weekend brought me the first real rehearsal for the course I will assist in at the end of this month. As we did last year, we will take the students of biology of our university to the beautiful Hallerbos, … Continue reading →

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