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INNATURE: Building biodiversity and belonging in urban spaces
By Olivia van der Weiden Over the past months, we’ve been working hard on the preparations for INNATURE, an EU-funded project on nature based solutions in urban areas. The mission of this project is straightforward: co-create nature-based solutions to promote … Continue reading
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Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Environment, Nature, Sustainability
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Where the soundscape is pleasant
So, where in Flanders does it still sound nice? A simple question, perhaps. But one for which the data has long remained elusive. Sound is a complex, multi-dimensional beast, and capturing how people actually experience it is not straightforward. In … Continue reading
From plants to smartphones: how I wandered through science
New paper out! –> Decorte et al. in PLOS Digital Health This paper might be the furthest I have ever ventured from my core scientific discipline. And honestly? That feels very much right. I started my academic life as an … Continue reading
De Oorzaak’s final report
We’ve written before on The 3D Lab about De Oorzaak as an ambitious citizen science effort to understand urban soundscapes in Flanders. This week marks an important milestone – the cherry on the cake: the project’s integrated scientific final report … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment, health, mental-health, mindfulness, Noise, sleep, wellness
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A hell of a nuisance
Non-native species can be, pardon my words, a hell of a nuisance sometimes. Case in point: invasive pine species in the Southern Hemisphere. Did you know that there are no (none!) native pine species south of the equator? Given how … Continue reading
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Tagged Chile, Hiking, Invasive species, Nature, Pines, Plants, Travel
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Don’t mess with physics
Gather ‘round, my friends, because this one is important! A few years ago, we released our Global maps of soil temperature – a project that brought climate data much closer to the conditions that actually matter for the organisms living … Continue reading
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