AMGC SEMINARS OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2016 (PDF)
TUESDAY 11 OCTOBER 2016 – 11 AM (FOLLOWED BY PIZZA LUNCH)
Koen Stein – Dinosaur dynamics in a Cretaceous world
Ashlea Wainwright (ULB) – Tracing early earth mantle dynamics with isotope geochemistry
This seminar will also be a chance to introduce the new members of AMGC to the department
THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER 2016 – 4 PM
Debany Fonseca Batista – Significance of biological dinitrogen fixation in the Atlantic Ocean
Christina Makarona – Your research story: tell it to me so I can tell others
WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER – TBA – ULB SEMINAR (ULB, TBA)
Matthew Genge (Imperial College London) – TBA
TUESDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2016 – 4 PM TBC (FOLLOWED BY DRINKS)
Poppe de Boer (Utrecht University) – Cancelled
FRIDAY 18 NOVEMBER – 1PM – ULB SEMINAR (ULB, BUILDING D, ROOM 5.236)
Hilary Downes (Birkbeck University of London) – Ureilites and their parent body, as a contrast to the "Vesta paradigm" for differentiated asteroids
THURSDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2016 – 3 PM
Bastien Soens – Petrogenesis of the Crommyonia volcanic rocks: a petrographic and geochemical perspective
Martine Leermakers – Trace element geochemistry and bioavailability in mining environments
TUESDAY 6 DECEMBER 2016 – 4 PM (FOLLOWED BY ST-NICHOLAS DRINKS)
Christian Zeeden (Aachen University) – Modelling of loess-paleosol sequence formation
THURSDAY 22 DECEMBER 2016 – 11 AM (FOLLOWED BY A SMALL WINTER CELEBRATION)
Tara Vandermarken – Endocrine disruptors
Christophe Snoeck – Stonehenge rising from the ashes
AMGC SEMINARS JANUARY – JUNE 2017 (PDF-1, 2)
TUESDAY 17 JANUARY 2017 – 4 PM
David De Vleeschouwer (Marum, DE) – Alternating southern and northern Hemisphere Climate Response to Astronomical Forcing during the past 35 Million Years
THURSDAY 2 FEBRUARY 2017 – 10 AM
Wei Guo – Development of DGT sampler for monitoring estrogenic activity in water combined with CALUX
Christophe Snoeck – New FTIR Microscope: What can it do?
THURSDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2017 – 4 PM
Filip Meysman – Microbial electricity: a surprise from the seafloor
THURSDAY 2 MARCH 2017 – 10 AM
Filippo Bertozzo – From Bone to Flesh: The paleobiological approaches to resurrect the aspect of ancient creatures
TUESDAY 14 MARCH 2017 – 4 PM
Christian Maerz (Leeds University) – Early diagenesis in (sub-) Arctic marine sediments and its impacts on their chemical and physical properties
FRIDAY 17 MARCH – 1 PM (ULB SEMINAR SERIES – BUILDING D, ROOM 5.236)
Julie Prytulak (Imperial College London) – Stable Thallium Isotope Variations in Magmatic Rocks
MONDAY 27 MARCH – 4 PM (BIGE ULB-VUB SEMINAR – ULB, FORUM E, CAMPUS PLAINE)
Francis Albarède (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon) – Medical applications of Cu, Zn and S isotope effects
THURSDAY 30 MARCH 2017 – 10 AM
Audray Delcamp – Wet volcanoes: hydrogeology and role of water before, during and after collapse
Camille Gaulier – Study of geochemical behaviour of pollutants in the marine environment: using DGT and Voltammetry
TUESDAY 11 APRIL 2017 – 10 AM
Kersten Van Langenhove – Chemical water quality in the Zenne River, for better or worse
Stef Vansteenberge – LEAP-ing between dry and wet climate: the case of the Late Eemian Aridity Pulse
FRIDAY 5 MAY 2017 – 10 AM
Pavel Divis (Brno university of technology, Czech Republic) – TBA
THURSDAY 11 MAY 2017 – 4 PM
Laurine Burdorf – Cable bacteria: global distribution and impact on marine sediment geochemistry
FRIDAY 19 MAY 2017 – 1 PM (ULB SEMINARS – BUILDING D, ROOM 5.236)
Katherine Joy (University of Manchester) – TBA
WEDNESDAY 24 MAY 2017 – 4 PM
Ine Callebaut – Differential control of iron and sulphur dominated redox cycling on trace metal diagenesis
Niels de Winter – Chemistry and growth in marine bivalves: Can we use modelling to understand fossil shells?
TUESDAY 6 JUNE 2017 – 10 AM
Imke Boonen – Release of Bisphenol A and other endocrine-disruptive compounds from resin-based dental materials
Matthias van Ginneken – Micrometeorites and the flux of extraterrestrial material to Earth
THURSDAY 22 JUNE 2017 – 4 PM
Angelique Husson – Bioavailibility and bioaccumulation of uranium in post-mine context: A holistic approach
Christina Makarona – Ancient pottery mix and match. Why were Bronze Age potters mixing their clays and how do we even know