Tag Archives: Mountains

University of the Arctic

It are the little things that can make someone happy. Some of my Swedish pictures are featured on the website of the University of the Arctic. That idea is already nice, but I also find it nice to be associated … Continue reading

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Window seat

If you fly down through Chile from Santiago to Punta Arenas, make sure you have a window seat! And not just any window seat, you would like to be on the left side of the plane, cause from there, you … Continue reading

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SciLogs

I posted another scientific story on the EOS-blog at SciLogs.be, this time about microclimate and plants. Unfortunately for my dear international public, these posts are in Dutch, but you can take my word on it that it is a big honour for … Continue reading

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Database needs adventurers

Climate change is a global issue, and its effect will be felt on every square centimeter of this earth, that issue is more or less cleared in the scientific community. The changing climate might not have as much impact everywhere and … Continue reading

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Invasive plants reaching new elevations

With humans traveling and occupying the world more intensively every day, invasions by nonnative plant species are becoming an omnipresent pattern. People transport countless plant seeds as they travel that might, or might not, establish and disrupt local ecosystems. Until … Continue reading

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Uphill (and downhill!)

Our climate is changing, that much is clear. The main effect of this changing climate is that what once was balancing now starts shifting. As if our little world became a plate full of beer pulls, losing its balance on the shaking hands of an … Continue reading

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