Category Archives: Netherlands

A new beginning

Last week, I spent a delightful day at my soon-to-be new home university in Utrecht. A day packed with discussions on scientific ambitions, teaching plans, and meeting new colleagues and ongoing research in the group. The first tulip of the … Continue reading

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Assistant professor in ecological scaling

Major milestone: first of May, The 3D Lab is making a big move to Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and it is doing so following my recent appointment as an assistant professor in the Ecology & Biodiversity-group there. Major milestone, … Continue reading

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#NatureOrNot

Our #NatureOrNot survey has been an unexpectedly big success! More than 1300 people informed us about what they consider nature and what not. The poster above, made by master student Naomi De Vries who’s in charge of the project, summarizes … Continue reading

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Unusually warm

2018 has started of relatively stormy, here in Belgium. Water on the quays in Antwerp, and the first ever use of the large controlled flooding areas along the Scheldt, the year does indeed start unusual. In the Netherlands, it was … Continue reading

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Summer in the polders

After all these mountains from my previous posts, it is again time for some good ol’ nature from back home! This is a series celebrating the little pieces of nature in between the agriculture, with pictures from the polder landscape close … Continue reading

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