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“The Czech Republic is a global example for microclimate science”
The soil sensor, the smart sensor that measures heat and drought in 5,000 gardens, parks, nature reserves and fields, was developed by TOMST. A small Czech company, world famous among microclimate scientists and, thanks to the citizen science project CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin, also … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium
Tagged climate change, Internet of Things, Microclimate, Nature, Science, technology
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The fingerprint of last weeks’ heavy precipitation on soil moisture in Flemish gardens
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
Posted in Belgium
Tagged Citizen science, climate change, CNidT, Curieuzeneuzen, Extreme weather, floodings, Gardens, Global change, Outdoors, Soil moisture
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How heat makes our cities sweat at night
Beautiful data visualization in newspaper De Standaard today, who show-case the newest conclusions from our citizen science project. Here, I provide a shortened English summary of the longread, but for the full beauty of the visuals, you MUST check out … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium
Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Heat, Microclimate, Science, Urban, Urban ecology, Urban heat islands
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On the measurement of microclimate
Ecologists nowadays are trying to get closer to measurements of the microclimate that organisms are actually experiencing. Weather stations are great, standardized sources of temperature data at 2 m in the air, yet organisms often relate more strongly to what … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged climate change, Ecology, Measurements, Microclimate, Nature, Science
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Good family man or sulking teenager: an update on our data network
The data from the lawn network of our citizen science project (CNidT) is transmitted via the Internet of Things. With its 5,000 connected sensors, CNidT is also the largest Internet of Things network in Belgium. Pioneering work, therefore, and that … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizen science, climate change, CNidT, Curieuzeneuzen, Gardens, Microclimate, Nature, outdoor
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