AMGC SEMINARS JANUARY - DECEMBER 2019
Thursday January 10 - 4PM
Nik van Larebeke: Physical chemical hygiene is a necessary condition for an effective prevention of diseases of civilization
Thursday February 7 – 4 PM
Stijn Van Malderen: Next-generation LA-ICP-MS: a swiss knife in a multimodal toolbox
Thursday February 21 – 4 PM
Matthias Sinnesael: The Cyclostratigraphy Intercomparison Project
Mingyue Luo: Investigation of oxygen sensitive elements in sediment microniches with DGT
Thursday March 7 – 4 PM
Stef Koelewijn (KU Leuven): Safe by natural design: benign bisphenols from biomass
Thursday March 21 – 4 PM
Willy Baeyens - How marine plankton influences climate change
Thursday April 25 – 4 PM
Huan Cui: Ice or fire? Constraining the origin of isotopically anomalous cap carbonate cements by integrated μXRF, SEM, and SIMS
Thursday May 9 – 4 PM
Ines Tomašek: Practical applications of Medical Geology: physicochemical characterisation of volcanic ash
Alexandra Rodler: (Past records of) environmental change: some bio- and isotope geochemical applications
Thursday June 6 – 4 PM
Annelies Van Heyst: Migration of mineral oil from food packaging to food
Xiaohan Zhang: Development of DGT passive sampler for the assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in water using CALUX as detection method
Thursday June 20 – 4 PM
Thomas Dehais: Volatilization and overprint processes through the Chicxulub impact structure: isotopic evidence from the Expedition 364 core
Pim Kaskes: Clearing up the Chicxulub impact cloud: geochemistry and petrography of uniquely preserved Cretaceous-Paleogene impact ejecta
Wednesday September 11 – 4 PM
John W. Valley
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Hadean Zircon are not from hell: Evidence from Atom Probe Tomography & SIMS
Friday September 13 – 11 AM
Jeong-Hyun Lee
Dept. of Geological Sciences, Chungnam National University:
Marine oxygenation and the early development of Paleozoic reefs
Thursday September 26 - 4 PM
Arne Bratkič
University of Liege:
Advancing methodology for sub-zero temperature application of DGT technique
on sea ice samples for two-dimensional imaging of biogenic metals
Koen Stein
AMGC, Vrije Universiteit Brussel:
Structure and evolutionary implications of the earliest (Sinemurian, Early Jurassic)
dinosaur eggs and eggshells
Thursday October 10 - 4 PM
Maxwell M. Thiemens
G-Time lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles:
Learning from Apollo; Dating the Moon
Huan Cui
AMGC, Vrije Universiteit Brussel:
Environmental Context of Early Animal Evolution
Friday October 25 – 11 AM
A. Jay Kaufman
Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland:
When Life Got Hard: An Environmental Driver for the Origin of Seashell
Thursday November 21 - 4 PM
Imke Boonen
AMGC, Vrije Universiteit Brussel:
Endocrine activity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
Ryoga Maeda
AMGC, Vrije Universiteit Brussel:
The mobilization of large ion lithophile elements (LILEs) in chondrites by chemical alteration in Antarctica:
implications from Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd isotope systematics and the distribution of LILEs by using LA-ICP-TOF/MS
Flore Van Maldeghem
AMGC, Vrije Universiteit Brussel:
How to take a closer look at unmelted micrometeorites
Monday December 16 – 4 PM
Kate Laxton
University College London:
Unusual techniques for an unusual volcano – Monitoring Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, Tanzania