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The 3D Lab closes 2020
Our goal here in The 3D Lab is to use our skills to help fight the biodiversity crisis. Important. Urgent. Complex. Never finished. Of course, this is a battle we won’t win overnight, nor will we manage on our own. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, climate change, Ecology, Global change, Microclimate, Nature, Science
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Congo
Sometimes, a picture reaches me that might not look too special at first, yet has major implications for scientific progress. This is one of them: a TMS4 mini-weather station in the midst of the rainforest of DR Congo! It shows … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, climate change, Ecology, Microclimate, Rainforest, Science
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History in the making
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
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Tagged climate change, Drought, Ecology, Garden, Garden photography, Microclimate, Nature, Science, Temperature
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Welcoming Stijn
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
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Finished
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
Something cooking
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
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Tagged Acid, Chemistry, Ecology, Labwork, Microclimate, Nature, Science, Soils
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