Tag Archives: Science

How heat makes our cities sweat at night

Posted on July 10, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

Beautiful data visualization in newspaper De Standaard today, who show-case the newest conclusions from our citizen science project. Here, I provide a shortened English summary of the longread, but for the full beauty of the visuals, you MUST check out … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Heat, Microclimate, Science, Urban, Urban ecology, Urban heat islands | Leave a comment

Exotic species enter through the city gates

Posted on July 9, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

3DLab-member Charly Géron’s second paper recently got featured on http://www.eoswetenschap.eu! Here is an English translation of the story they brought there: —- Plants from warmer regions feel perfectly at home in our cities. From there, they can colonize the countryside. … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Cities, Ecology, Invasive species, Landscape photography, Nature, Outdoors, Plant invasions, Plants, Science, urban photography | Leave a comment

The hunt for Arctic aliens

Posted on May 16, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

Whilst they do not hunt for extra-terrestrial aliens that may or may not be hidden under the ice (as some on the more unbridled sections of the internet would rather they did), hunting for terrestrial aliens is exactly what they do. Ronja Wedegärtner … Continue reading →

Posted in Svalbard | Tagged arctic, Ecology, Global change, Invasive species, Nature, Outdoors, Plants, Science, Svalbard | Leave a comment

On the measurement of microclimate

Posted on May 14, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

Ecologists nowadays are trying to get closer to measurements of the microclimate that organisms are actually experiencing. Weather stations are great, standardized sources of temperature data at 2 m in the air, yet organisms often relate more strongly to what … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged climate change, Ecology, Measurements, Microclimate, Nature, Science | Leave a comment

Saving the world isn’t rocket science

Posted on April 22, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

The3DLab member Ronja got interviewed for a podcast at her university in Trondheim! A very nice summary of her research. You can find the podcast here, or on Spotify! The podcast investigates the environmental impacts of hiking trails in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway, Sweden | Tagged Ecology, Hiking, Invasive species, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Podcast, Science, Sustainability | Leave a comment

Aliens in the Arctic

Posted on April 15, 2021 by lembrechtsjonas

In a recent study co-authored by The3DLab-member Ronja Wedegärtner, a team of researchers have mapped invasive plants on Svalbard, and the results leave no doubt; alien plants grow where humans have been. The research team found 36 alien plant species, … Continue reading →