Busy times, and no internet at home
Due to a breakdown, we don’t have any internet at home.. At least until Monday. Furthermore, it has been very busy at the office, as next week the first field season for my PhD research will officially...
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Weimar
Me, next to my poster Last week I went to the International Jena Symposium on Tick-borne Diseases in Weimar, where I presented a poster about my PhD project. I had expected that it would be mostly...
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I have put the poster I presented during the XII International Jena Symposium on Tick-borne Diseases online. So if you are interested in reading it, please click on the following link: Jena Poster
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Social interactions
Roe deer and Red fox caught on camera Doing research with camera traps is a lot of fun, because you capture things that you would not have expected beforehand. Last month my fieldwork started with the...
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Onset of Spring
Onset of Spring The nice thing about going to the same place again and again to sample for my research, is that I also get to see the changes that are happening in the forests during spring. The...
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It is already some time ago, but in 2011 I did some analyses for Alterra for a project on wild boar genetics in the Southern part of the Netherlands. Today it was finally published and it can be found...
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Photo of the Month September 2013
Photo of the Month September 2013 The forest through a rodents eye As I wrote last month, I have been working in the field for my PhD research during the summer, which meant that I did not have a lot...
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Red deer
Red deer crossing the road This morning I visited the Dutch nature reserve Deelerwoud to search for a field site for my research. While walking in the forest, I encountered a herd of red deer crossing...
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Ticks parasitizing Mustelids
Ixodes hexagonus nymph on stone marten I have been working on Mustelids for several years now, mainly focussing on the study of traffic victims collected by volunteers throughout the Netherlands. Since...
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Radio exposure
This morning I was on Dutch radio with a small interview concerning my research on ticks on medium-sized mammals in the Netherlands with the use of traffic victims. It is in Dutch, and can be found on...
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First paper from postdoc
I am really happy to announce that the first paper from my postdoc was just published online as early view. It deals with a conceptual framework for dealing with detection issues when using camera...
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