Tag Archives: Microclimate

History in the making

Posted on October 28, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

What you see brightening up my garden on the picture above is what we hope will be the future of microclimate monitoring: a TMS-logger with connection to the internet! Yes, you read that correctly, TOMST is currently working on a … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged climate change, Drought, Ecology, Garden, Garden photography, Microclimate, Nature, Science, Temperature | Leave a comment

Welcoming Stijn

Posted on October 19, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Last week, we had a new PhD candidate starting in the lab! His name is Stijn, and he is here to pull our fabulous citizen science project ‘CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin’, in which we will measure summer heat and drought … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged climate change, Drought, Ecology, Gardening, Gardens, Microclimate, Outdoors, Science | Leave a comment

Finished

Posted on September 7, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

The 3D lab waves goodbye to another master student, with Sam having defended his thesis last week. Sam travelled to the northern Scandes to study the drivers of plant community composition, and brought home some fascinating findings: while plant species … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway, Science, Sweden | Tagged Climate, Ecology, Microclimate, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Plants, Science, Thesis | Leave a comment

Something cooking

Posted on August 14, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

There is something cooking in the kitchen, and it is looking far from tasty! It is a nice mixture of hydrogen chloride and hydrogen peroxide, with a pinch of soil added for flavour. The boiling and simmering of this disgusting … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Acid, Chemistry, Ecology, Labwork, Microclimate, Nature, Science, Soils | Leave a comment

Sensors

Posted on July 24, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Eleven thousand and counting! This summer has been huge for our SoilTemp-database. Little could we have imagined that our project would become such a tremenduous success, with people contributing from all over the world! We are now collecting pictures as … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged climate change, Ecology, Global change, Microclimate, Mountains, Nature, Science, Soil | Leave a 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 →