Tag Archives: Travel

Holiday break

Posted on September 5, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

Autumn arrived in the Arctic with fast incoming clouds and drizzling rains, luckily exactly the day when the field season was over! I am now going to celebrate this second field season of my PhD with a deserved holiday to Spain, where summers … Continue reading →

Posted in Spain, Sweden | Tagged Abisko, arctic, Autumn, Ecology, Field season, Fieldwork, Photography, Scandinavia, Spain, Sweden, Travel | 4 Comments

Flying a helicopter

Posted on September 3, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

Our most remote plots involve hours of climbing on steep mountain slopes, through dense willow shrubs and over dry rocky areas. But not this time. This time we had to walk for 20 minutes to Abisko’s helicopter base and do the … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Adventure, arctic, flying, Helicopter, Holiday, Mountains, Photography, Scandinavia, Sweden, Travel, Travelling | 1 Comment

Please do not disturb

Posted on September 1, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

If you leave your experiment behind in the Scandinavian mountains, you will have to deal with the wildlife up there. We learned that lesson the hard way. It turns out that the high north houses a high density of reindeer, a fact we immediately noticed … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Animals, arctic, Ecology, Field season, Fieldwork, Mammal, Mountains, Nature, north, Reindeer, Scandinavia, Science, Summer, Sweden, Travel | 3 Comments

A happy reunion

Posted on September 1, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

Recent post about my fieldwork in Abisko on the Arctic Research Blog!

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Abisko, Ecology, Fieldwork, Mountains, Scandinavia, Science, Summer, Sweden, Travel | 3 Comments

Back to the top

Posted on August 30, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

This post was originally posted here, on the Arctic Research blog of the Interact network. We are back in Abisko after two months. Right before the start of the rainy autumn weather – it might fall upon us on our … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Autumn, Ecology, Fieldwork, Mountains, Nature, Photography, Pictures, Plants, Science, Summer, Travel, Wildlife | Leave a comment

On the fly

Posted on August 28, 2014 by lembrechtsjonas

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We welcome you aboard just another flight. I have been flying a lot this summer, and yesterday brought three more flights in a row. Brussels-Copenhagen, Copenhagen-Stockholm and Stockholm-Kiruna. Three more times the safety … Continue reading →