Important news for the microclimate community: Michael Kearney and the University of Melbourne just published a suit of user-friendly microclimate modelling apps that allow you to predict local microclimate for all over the world!

All information here!

These models compute hourly soil temperatures, soil moisture, snow cover and other microclimatic conditions such as air temperature at a specified height from the ground, for different parts of the world and for different time periods. A second set of models also allows the computation of hourly animal body temperature given the microclimatic conditions.
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Our SoilTemp call for data has been published in Global Change Biology, introducing the concept of the database and the need for all to submit their in-situ microclimate time series. More details here!

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Hey you, do you have a research site in any of the blank spots on this map? Then don't hesitate and get in touch with us: we offer free microclimate loggers to help us fill those gaps!

Indeed, SoilTemp is looking for potential collaborators working in remote locations across the globe to expand the global coverage of our growing database of in-situ microclimate measurements. We offer for free 5 to 20 TOMST TMS4 microclimate loggers per location and search for people willing to install the loggers and regularly retrieve the data to feed into the SoilTemp database. Download the questionnaire below to apply.

Download this document for all details on how to participate. 

And as always, if you have any microclimate data already measured, don't hesitate to get in touch for details on how to submit!
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We published an invited commentary piece in Global Change Biology on a recent paper from Ilya Maclean. The main message? Thanks to the new generation of mechanistic microclimate models, we can now model microclimatic conditions anywhere at any time. Our SoilTemp database is needed to verify these predictions. More here.

In October, Jonas went to the second meeting of the Network for Arthropods of the Tundra (NeAT) in Aarhus (Denmark), where he presented the importance of in-situ soil temperature measurements to understand the current and future distribution of Arctic arthropods. More here. 

We made a little interactive map of the what, how and why of SoilTemp. Click below to start exploring!

We have a new - regional - SoilTemp-paper out, testing part of the rationale behind our network. In short, we compare different sources of climate data, show the variability between them, and test their performance in species distribution models in northern Scandinavia. Soil temperature came out as the best predictor for short-statued plant species.
Find the paper here.
Find a press release on the highlights here.

The beginning of June saw a gathering of great minds in the city center of Antwerp for the first SoilTemp-symposium. Check out this blogpost to discover what we discussed! 

New #SoilTemp update: database milestones, the upcoming SoilTemp-symposium in Antwerp, and a call for contributions from outside Europe. All here!

We recently received a nice package at the SoilTemp headquarters in Antwerp: 130 TOMST TMS-4 sensors, to make it even easier to measure microclimate right where it matters for organisms! Read all about it here. ​