Tag Archives: Winter

The season of anticipation

Posted on March 7, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

We passed that time of year again. That moment just before spring breaks loose, when king winter gives you one last wack around the ears before hurrying back to its royal halls above the polar circle. We had a serious … Continue reading →

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Light

Posted on January 10, 2018 by lembrechtsjonas

The season of darkness – and tons of artificial little lights to compensate for that – is finally coming to an end again. Here in Belgium, we are again gaining two minutes of daylight every day, on our steady road … Continue reading →

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Global change ecology

Posted on February 7, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

Our research center – the excellence center on Global Change Ecology – started its own blog! Unfortunately for the international audience here, the blog is in Dutch, yet it featured my recent article on the difference between climate and weather! … Continue reading →

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Lines

Posted on February 1, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

What I love about winter is how it accentuates the lines in the landscape. Yet the most important lines of this season are the deadlines, and this January had quite a lot of them. We submitted two big projects that … Continue reading →

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Blinded by a snowball

Posted on January 27, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

There once was this US senator who brought a snowball to the parliament to proof climate  change is not as bad as we wanted him to believe. A small act, you could even call it a joke, yet it pops … Continue reading →

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Knotweeding

Posted on January 23, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

It was a mess of pieces, like shattered bones on a battlefield. A macaber sight that seemed to add some extra drama to the story of plant invasion. In between all the branches and sticks on the frozen floor, new … Continue reading →

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