Category Archives: General
Twelve years of blogging (and counting)
With the end of the year in sight, I always reflect a bit on this website and what it has achieved. Quite a shock to realize now that I’ve been blogging consistently for more than twelve years! Even better, the … Continue reading
A new chapter: looking back, looking forward
Last year I wrote about a major milestone: moving The 3D Lab to Utrecht University and stepping into my role as assistant professor in ecological scaling. Today, I’m happy to share the next chapter in that story: as of November, … Continue reading
The night
[ENGLISH] A cold, dark autumn night. My alarm goes off at 1:15 a.m., and for a moment I wonder what on Earth I was thinking. Then it hits me: I had been invited for a night-time interview on NPO Radio … Continue reading
Shaping the future of environmental data sharing
Are you working with environmental or biodiversity data and willing to help us out? At the Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) network, we believe that open, reliable, and collaborative data exchange is the cornerstone of understanding and predicting biodiversity and … Continue reading
How to not be swamped by your microclimate data
Microclimate data are finally finding their way more routineously into ecological models – and rightly so. Hooray for that! The growing availability of in-situ measurements is helping us bridge the gap between the coarse world of macroclimate and the fine-scale … Continue reading
How to set up your own microclimate network
Back in 2021, we had an important thought: maybe we should start treating microclimate the same way we treat macroclimate. Weather and climate are monitored by national governments through organized, standardized networks – so why not microclimate too? We wrote … Continue reading










