Tag Archives: Climate

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 climate update – exotics in extreme heat

Posted on August 9, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

In ‘The Climate Update’ gives Arne Ven, climate change advisor in the Global Change Ecology center of the University of Antwerp, us a recap of the news – good and bad – about climate change. Part 11 is about heat … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Flanders, Invasive species, Outdoors, Plants, Science, Urban heat island | Leave a comment

How heat makes our cities sweat at night

Posted on July 10, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

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 | Leave a comment

The hottest lawns are not always in the city

Posted on May 15, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

According to the first results of our citizen science project ‘CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin’, lawns in urban gardens can also be quite cool. This came as a bit of a surprise. [English summary based on today’s discussion of our results … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Citizen science, Climate, CNidT, Curieuzeneuzen, Gardens, Heat islands, Microclimate, Nature, Outdoors, Temperature | Leave a comment

Weather station networks, reinvented

Posted on March 25, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

We need a different kind of weather station networks to answer most ecological questions. We argue that what we need is countrywide ‘microclimate networks’, that measure weather conditions there where they matter for ecology and nature around us. Where weather … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Forests, Global change, Microclimate, Nature, Outdoors | 1 Comment

The rollercoaster

Posted on January 8, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

The rollercoaster has left for the wildest ride of 2021! In a little bit over 2 weeks, we’ll do something crazy: we’re launching are massive citizen science project to measure heat and drought in over 5000 Flemish gardens, nature reserves … Continue reading →