Tag Archives: Norway

Tales from the field

Posted on August 17, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

The global pandemic is still restricting lots of our fieldwork, and we have to cancel unfortunately another batch of work planned in northern Norway, but not all of it is going down the drain. PhD-student Ronja, for example, is having … 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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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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Road effects

Posted on June 12, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

5 years later, we are getting ready for a re-survey of our longterm observational plots along the roads in the Norwegian mountains. The perfect moment to summarize for a second what we learned from our first trip. This post was published … Continue reading →

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5 years later

Posted on May 11, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

Summer 2012. I was a young masters student, spending my first month of many above the polar circle. I joined a global consortium called MIREN, the Mountain Invasion Research Network, that surveyed plant invasions along roads in mountain regions scattered … Continue reading →

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Haiku

Posted on November 9, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Travelling plants take Roads up and down our mountains No legs, yet still fast It does not happen often that scientists dare to take the jump to something as far out of their comfort zone as poetry. Yet we all agree … Continue reading →