Tag Archives: Environment
The threat of global change for Arctic vegetation
When standing on the top of a mountain in northern Scandinavia on a cold spring day, I find it easy to be impressed by the vastness and harshness of the Arctic. A wilderness that seems to fit the very definition … Continue reading
How microclimate is changing at a different rate
If you’ve been following my research for a while, you should know by now that microclimate warming rates can be very different from what our weather stations and climate models tell us. We’ve been discussing it for forests, mountains and … Continue reading
The green revolution of our playgrounds
A blogpost by 3D Lab team members Kyra and Olivia What A super cool project that is currently taking place in Zeeland is the Groene Revolutie (translating to Green revolution) organized by IVN Zeeland. The goal? To greenify all school … Continue reading
Proving extinction is hard. But we can do so now.
For decades, climate change ecology has mostly been a story about shifts: species moving upslope, poleward, tracking the climate they’re adapted to as it slides out from under them. It’s one of the best-documented fingerprints of warming in nature. What … Continue reading
How much hydrology hides in our microclimate sensors?
I’ve spent over a decade now sticking small microclimate loggers into the ground, mostly to talk about temperature. Soil moisture has always been the awkward third wheel in that story: TOMST loggers measure it too, our CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin … Continue reading
Big, rocky canaries in the coalmine
Mountain tops are big, rocky canaries in the coalmine that is our planet. Up there, above the last trees, change happens in real time and out in the open: plants, rock and climate, negotiating directly with each other. If you … Continue reading




