Tag Archives: Nature photography

The roadside effect: visual proof

Posted on August 29, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

Mountain roadsides, the most fascinating places on earth. That is, if you believe a PhD-student who has been studying them for more than 5 years now. We returned safely from our fieldwork season in the northern Scandes, with suitcases full … Continue reading →

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Blessed

Posted on August 15, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

Our second fieldwork trip of the summer has been blessed; several rainbows have been guiding our way. Yet there is this thing with rainbows, they force you in a difficult position: do you experience the glass to be half full … Continue reading →

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A plot visit

Posted on August 13, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

Not often do we get the chance to visit the sites of our colleagues at the other side of the world. Even though I am working with their data day after day at the office, the beauty of the actual … Continue reading →

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The Yellowstone experience

Posted on August 5, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

The last day of our MIREN-meeting in Montana (more on that here) brought us to Yellowstone National Park, a place of endless wilderness and wonder. We paid a visit to one of the field sites of our colleagues, on one of … Continue reading →

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That damn snow again

Posted on July 28, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

During last year’s field trip to Sweden, at the very end of August, an early autumn snowstorm threw us of the mountain. You can (re)read the account of that humbling hike here. We were beaten. Defeated. Nature’s powers were too strong. … Continue reading →

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On a hunt for mountain plants

Posted on July 22, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

We are at the height of our 2017 resurvey of the vegetation along Norwegian mountain roads, and the fieldwork has been highly successfull. It has been great revisiting the plots and discovering the changes – and often the highly interesting … Continue reading →

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