AMGC SEMINARS JANUARY - DECEMBER 2020
Seminars with external speakers will be once a month
on the 10th floor, building F, room 720, ALL WELCOME.
For more information, contact Ines Tomasek.
Thursday January 30 - 4 PM
Prof. Lourdes Fernández Díaz
Dept. Crystallography & Mineralogy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid:
Crystallization in gels: Application to mineralogic, biomineralogic and environmental problems
Friday March 6 - 11 AM (cancelled)
Prof. Toni Schulz
Dept. of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Austria
Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie, University of Cologne, Germany
Decoding Earth's oxygenation history and the chemical evolution of Precambrian seawater -
coupled Fe-Os isotope signatures in Banded Iron Formations
Thursday March 12 - 4 PM
Prof Olivier Namur
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven:
The effect of the crust on the differentiation of basaltic magma
Thursday April 9 - 4 PM (cancelled)
Marie Sforna
Early life lab, University of Liège
Friday April 24 - 11 AM (cancelled)
Dr. Huifang Xu
Dept. of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Day and night cycles make impossible possible:
a case study of sedimentary magnesite formation
through dis-equilibrium geochemical processes
Thursday May 7 - 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Dr. Martin D. Suttle
Natural History Museum, London:
Water on asteroids in the early Solar System:
perspectives from the study of cosmic dust
Thursday May 28 - 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Prof. Graham Shileds
UCL Earth Sciences, University College London:
Possible effects of evaporite weathering and deposition on oxygen and climate
Thursday June 11 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
UCL Earth Sciences, University College London:
Isotopic evidence for the early ending of the boring billion
Thursday August 27 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Dr. Marion Peral:
Paleothermometers over the last 2Ma
Dr. Marta Marchegiano:
Reconstructing paleoclimate: the power of ostracods
Thursday September 3, 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Rachel Spros:
Elisavet Stamataki (MARI-HARP-VUB):
Death and Fire: Investigating changes and specialisation in cremation practices in Belgium during the Metal Ages (*FWO interview prep)
Thursday September 10, 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Dr. Fiona Thiessen
Reconstructing the impact history of the Moon with the help of lunar zircon and phosphates
Thursday 17 September, 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Dr. Naomi Saunders
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA
Stable Ni isotope heterogeneity in the terrestrial mantle
Thursday 24 September, 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Prof. Matthieu Kervyn & Roos van Wees :
Physical Geography (FARD), DGGF - VUB
EVOLVE: quantifying and modelling long term growth and erosion of volcanoes
Dr. Pierre-Yves Tournigand:
Physical Geography (FARD), DGGF - VUB
Variability of explosive volcanic eruptions: interdependence of source morphology and eruptive style
Thursday 1 October, 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Vendula Smolikova:
Besarta Matranxhi:
Thursday 8 October, 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Dr. Rhy McMillan
Thursday 15 October, 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar) - CANCELLED!
Prof. Pierre Delmelle
Université catholique de Louvain, BE
Volcanic explosive eruptions emit less carbon than what their tephra deposits sequestrate in soils
Thursday 22 October, 4 PM CET (Teams Webinar)
Stefanie Van Rysseghem (R&D, VUB)
Introduction to PURE
Thursday 29 October, 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Dr. Paul Wallace (G-Time, ULB):
Dynamics of magma ascent during lava dome eruptions: effusive-explosive activity (CANCELLED)
Dr. Sam Poppe (G-Time, ULB)
Coupling laboratory experiments and analytical models of magma-induced deformation: an outlook
Thursday 5 November, 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Dr. Vincent Perrot
Tools to assess keys parameters affecting Hg biogeochemical cycle in the environment
Thursday 12 November, 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Dr. Marie Sforna
University of Liège
Tracking early metabolisms in the rock record with metals
Thursday 19 November, 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Prof. Benoit Smets
VUB Department of Geography & Royal Museum for Central Africa
Dynamics and evolution of lava lake systems: insights from the largest persistent lava lake on Earth
THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)
Dr. Niels de Winter:
THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)
Dr. Natacha Brion:
Thursday 17 December, 4 PM CET (Zoom Webinar)
Dr. Alexandra Rodler
Austrian Archaeological Institute and Academy of Sciences, AT
Trade in ancient pigments through the lens of geochemistry