Tag Archives: Citizen science

An efficient way to obtain soil texture data

Posted on April 27, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

When we designed our large-scale citizen science project ‘CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin’, we soon realized we had a problem on our hands: if we wanted to get an accurate idea of soil temperature and especially soil moisture from our 5000 … Continue reading →

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Let’s track some noise!

Posted on April 3, 2023 by lembrechtsjonas

I am delighted to announce that starting this month, I have taken up a part-time position as a postdoctoral researcher to lead a groundbreaking citizen science project on noise pollution in urban environments. The project is being co-led by the … Continue reading →

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Citizen science – part 2

Posted on March 30, 2022 by lembrechtsjonas

This week, we are kicking off season two of our citizen science campaign! 3000 die-hard participants (from the 4400 we had last year), will again install a garden dagger in their garden to monitor extreme weather events across summer. So … Continue reading →

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The tastiest sensor

Posted on March 24, 2022 by lembrechtsjonas

Case in point that community science has so much more dimensions than we’re used to: we now have our ‘garden dagger’ microclimate sensor turned into chocolate! A tasty treat to all participants of the citizen science project who join us … Continue reading →

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Another year of microclimate citizen science!

Posted on September 22, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

‘CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin’ (CNidT), the large-scale citizen science project on drought, heat and moisture in gardens is playing extensions. After a summer that was exceptionally wet, the project hopes to collect additional data on heat and drought. Find out … Continue reading →

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The fingerprint of last weeks’ heavy precipitation on soil moisture in Flemish gardens

Posted on July 17, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

Last week, the southeast of Belgium had to cope with extreme precipitation, resulting in hallucinatory images of floodings. These large amounts of precipitation also leave clear traces in the soil moisture measurements of the CurieuzeNeuzen microclimate network. As you can … Continue reading →

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