Tag Archives: Science

SoilTemp: a database of near-surface temperatures

Posted on April 21, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Let me tell you something important – which won’t be a surprise to regular followers of this blog: weather station data doesn’t do the trick for ecologists. It is just too different from the climate as experienced by most organisms, … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Climate, climate change, Ecology, Microclimate, Nature, Nature photography, Science | Leave a comment

Gearing up our city microclimate plans

Posted on April 2, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Yesterday, we had a new member joining the team! It was a virtual first day at work, but we are very happy nonetheless to have her on board now: Camille will be managing our citizen science project on garden microclimates, … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Climate, Ecology, Fieldwork, Gardening, Microclimate, Outdoors, Science | Leave a comment

Knowledge synthesis communities as the answer?

Posted on March 24, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

Another guest post from 3DLab-member Ronja Wedegärtner on how we can do better science in these times of global change, and include the whole of society from the start. We are producing much science, but not using it effectively enough … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged climate change, Collaboration, Ecology, Global change, Hackatons, Nature, Science | Leave a comment

Where do soil microbes live?

Posted on March 23, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

If we want to model where soil microbes are living, and why, traditional distribution models will not do. In a new paper in FEMS Microbiology Ecology, we suggest that accuracy can be achieved, if we just change our mindset and … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Science | Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, Ecology, Global change, Nature, Science, Soils | Leave a comment

Sciencing at home

Posted on March 22, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

With all the social distancing across the world keeping us all at home, a lot of our fieldwork is being delayed. And that’s a bummer, as we just received a beautiful batch of ‘daggers’ to measure microclimate, and had fantastic … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, General | Tagged Nature, Science | 1 Comment

The baby goes to Reykjavik

Posted on March 20, 2020 by lembrechtsjonas

As a parent in academia, travelling – and leaving wife and kid behind – is far from easy. That is why we decided to take an ambitious plunge when I had to go to Reykjavik for the conference of the … Continue reading →