Tag Archives: Science

The first map of the air-conditioning effect of European forests

Posted on October 4, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

Press release Forest canopies cool summer temperatures with up to 10°C. An international team of scientists led by researchers from the KU Leuven in Belgium now mapped the temperature of all European forest patches to quantify the airco function of … Continue reading →

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The impact of extreme weather on the cultivation of potatoes

Posted on September 29, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

Blogpost written by Bart Deronde, and originally published (in a much prettier shape) on the blog of VITO. In spring 2021, the largest citizen science campaign ever on the impact of heat and drought in Flanders’ gardens & fields ‘CurieuzeNeuzen in … Continue reading →

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The TMS-Pluche

Posted on September 3, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

Consider development of microclimate sensors a closed and finished field: the ultimate product is now on the market! Thanks to the partner of our colleague Stijn, I got the most beautiful pluche version of a TMS-version, which we immediately bombarded … Continue reading →

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Nights with a baby: is it all about perception?

Posted on August 31, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

EDIT: baby 2 wants me to publicly apologies as I made a mistake in the calculations with her data (for the R-people, as.POSIXct got me). Post now updated! This summer, we doubled the sample size of our offspring experiment. We … Continue reading →

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A story of collective responsibility

Posted on August 23, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

The wettest summer in two centuries is an unexpected windfall for our citizen science project ‘CurieuzeNeuzen in de Tuin’ (CNidT). Our garden sensors fill a black hole in our knowledge: how can gardens act like sponges and buffer extreme rainfall? … Continue reading →

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Kittens, kittens, kittens!

Posted on August 20, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

That wonderful feeling when my R-code can help the local animal shelter with their hundreds of kittens. I have been monitoring the number of foster kittens in our local animal shelter for 4 years in a row now, keeping track … Continue reading →

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