APECS Belgium3 days ago7 minIt’s a wrap! Takeaways from the Belgian Polar Community Day 2024Robots! Posters! Workshops! And most importantly, a friendly catch-up with all our amazing polar colleagues! It’s a wrap on this year’s...
APECS BelgiumMar 11, 20192 minSmall change in the environment, big impact on Arctic animal and human communitiesWithin the framework of my PhD I went onboard of the Research Vessel Helmer Hansen in the Greenland Sea (Eastern coast of Greenland), in...
APECS BelgiumMar 4, 20191 minMy First Northern LightsGoing sampling in winter brings along more difficult logistics and harder working conditions. It’s completely dark most of the day and...
APECS BelgiumFeb 25, 20191 minRain on Snow Events in LongyearbyenToday, December 19, it’s raining in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. And it shouldn’t be – not when we are in the middle of the polar night and at...
APECS BelgiumFeb 18, 20191 minFunny Fact: How I ended up in the iceMy first time in Antarctica date back to 2016. At that time, I was performing experiments for my Master Thesis with macroalgae from the...
APECS BelgiumFeb 11, 20191 minLearning how not to be distractedI have recently came across the concept of “deep work” as explained by Cal Newport in his book “Deep Work”. He suggested the formula:...