Sleepless in Hyytiälä – Part 3

Logistics and Planning I thought long and hard about what I would want to read if I were reading a research blog. One thing would be to learn about how it felt to be a scientist in another country, and see how the writer dealt with all the difficulties and uncertainties that came with that, […]

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Sleepless in Hyytiälä – part 2

More about the station: A Forest lab, a Sauna and a Lake The grounds boasts an impressive lab within a forest within a lab. Yes, the facility actually has its own forest in which it lets scientists perform a variety of experiments in an authentic, in-home forestry lab. It includes wooden bridges to walk on […]

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Sleepless in Hyytiälä, Finland

Desert, Dunes, Forests Sand. I take off my shoes and there’s still some sand falling out of them. It comes from the Dutch Island of Texel, where – just a short week ago – I walked with people and interviewed them about their experience of nature in the dunes. A few months earlier, it was […]

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