Tag Archives: City

Much-missed interactions

Posted on October 11, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

Oh, finally! Finally, after such a long time: a research visit! I’m spending two very short days in Amiens, visiting the lab of friend and SoilTemp co-founder Jonathan Lenoir, and meeting up with two other partners in SoilTemp-crime while there. … Continue reading →

Posted in France | Tagged Amiens, City, Citytrip, Ecology, Microclimate, Science, Travel, urban photography | 1 Comment

Microclimate in the city

Posted on July 15, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Summer 2020 is now in full swing, and that means our trial for our garden microclimate project is in full swing! Let me guide you through some of the plans with some awesome pictures: We use these set-ups from Leuven.cool … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged City, Climate, climate change, Flanders, Microclimate, Science, Soil, Temperature, Urban | Leave a comment

TADA

Posted on May 3, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Last weekend, I did something a bit different from my usual science-ing: I got invited to give a workshop at ‘TADA‘, an organisation that gives ‘workshops for the future’, a Saturday school for economically disadvantaged children in the city of … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Brussels, City, Ecology, Nature, Science, Teaching, Urban ecology | Comments Off

City life

Posted on April 19, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

Take this proudly walking pigeon in the port of Barcelona as an announcement for next week’s talk about life in the city, which I’ll be giving for the biologist students at the University of Antwerp. In a session in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Animal photography, Bird photography, Birds, City, Global change, Global change ecology, Global warming, Nature photography, Photography, Science, Travel photography | Leave a comment

Zürich

Posted on February 9, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

This week brought us to Zürich, the magnificent city of bank buildings and rösti. We were heading for a highly interesting meeting, organised by the GMBA, the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment. They gathered a team of leading scientists from two … Continue reading →

Posted in Switzerland, Uncategorized | Tagged Architecture, City, Citytrip, Ecology, Landscape photography, Nature, Photography, Remote sensing, Science, Switzerland, Travel | 1 Comment

Light

Posted on January 10, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

The season of darkness – and tons of artificial little lights to compensate for that – is finally coming to an end again. Here in Belgium, we are again gaining two minutes of daylight every day, on our steady road … Continue reading →