Tag Archives: PhD

Fluorescence

Posted on November 27, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

For years, I have been teaching a practical course on the measurement of plant stress to our master students. In that course, we introduce them to the magical ecological process called ‘fluorescence’ to investigate stress in their studied plant species. … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged climate change, Ecology, Fieldwork, Global change, Nature, PhD, Plants, Science | Leave a comment

Following from afar

Posted on August 15, 2019 by lembrechtsjonas

What a feeling that gives: when your PhD- and master-students are rocking their fieldwork, and pictures of their successes are tumbling past. Case in point: this success for our mountain trail surveys in Norway, finished in the rain and with … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Norway, Sweden | Tagged Ecology, Fieldwork, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, PhD, Plant ecology, Plants, Science, Studies | Leave a comment

2018 in stories (1)

Posted on December 25, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

Here on ‘On top of the world’, we have the tradition to end the year with a ‘best of’, a list of the most read stories on this blog from the last year. This list helps us to wrap up … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Ecology, Landscape photography, Mountain ecology, Mountains, Nature, Nature photography, PhD, Postdoc, Science, Travel, Travel photography | Leave a comment

Dovre

Posted on November 16, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

The beginning of this week brought me to Dovre, a stunning National Park in the center of Norway. The area is sitting a 2,5 hours of steady uphill driving south of Trondheim, and was covered in a beautiful November snow … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Norway | Tagged Ecology, Fieldwork, Global change, Landscape photography, Nature photography, PhD, Scandinavia, Science, Travel photography, Winter | 3 Comments

Adding stones to the mountain

Posted on August 30, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

I felt humbled and proud at the same time when I realized my paper citation count on Google Scholar reached 100 this week. I know, modern science is focussing way too much on the numbers, but what this particular number … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Ecology, Landscape, Landscape photography, Mountains, PhD, PhD-life, Photography, Scandinavia, Scicomm, Science | 3 Comments

Anticipation

Posted on April 11, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

The much-anticipated spring of 2018 finally made it to Belgium! Not only because I have been craving to see my beloved plants resprouting, after a long winter of being ‘green-deprived’, but more importantly because this spring I will finally defend … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Ecology, Flower photography, Flowers, Macro photography, Nature photography, PhD, Photography, Plants, Science, Spring, Studying | 2 Comments

Spring

Posted on April 1, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

Spring is on its way, I promise! I went to Portugal to check it out for you myself. If you want to know why I was there, check out my previous post. Even that far south, spring seemed to be … Continue reading →