Tag Archives: Science

On how leaves decompose

Posted on March 17, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Climate poses a stronger control on litter decomposition than the species or the origin of the litter. That is the main conclusion of our recent paper in Biogeosciences (on which I collaborated primarily as a statistician). Getting to know the details about … Continue reading →

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Outreach

Posted on March 9, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Outreach is to the scientific project as the church steeple to the church. It comes at the very end, and might not take the longest, but you definitely need it to finish up a story and get a feeling of … Continue reading →

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Close to home

Posted on March 3, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Somehow, smoothly and almost unnoticed, I entered a truly different phase in my PhD, and it is a phase I find surprisingly comfortable. It is that point at which most of the fundamental data is collected, when everything is getting nicely … Continue reading →

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An elegant proof of global warming

Posted on February 29, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

An easy yet elegant experiment to prove the role of carbon dioxide in global warming and show its effect to children, that was the question my colleagues were working on. The experiment is in fact really elegant, so I am happy to … Continue reading →

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A reward for 2012-me

Posted on February 25, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Let’s go back to summer 2012. I am working on my masters thesis in Norway in what was arguably the wettest fieldwork summer till today. Aim of the project was at first to get an idea of the distribution of the … Continue reading →

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Travelling the world

Posted on February 19, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

… without getting anywhere! I am working on some very interesting global models now, bringing together all the data from our colleagues in mountain regions all over the world. I aim to bring together all this data to make maps … Continue reading →

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