AMGC Seminars 2020-2021

AMGC SEMINARS SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2020

Seminars with external speakers will be once a month
on the 10th floor, building F, room 720, ALL WELCOME.

 

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Rachel Spros:

‘Make-up of the City’ project

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:

Development and evaluation of DGT as a long-term monitoring tool for uranium at an industrial site of Tricastin, France

Besarta Matranxhi:

The triboreactor as breakthrough remediation strategy for safeguarding human and environmental health

 

THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Dr. Rhy McMillan

Indigenous-led investigations of ancient lithic resource use in the Pacific Northwest: extensive volcaniclastic toolstone sources (re)discovered in Sts’ailes territory, southwestern British Columbia

 

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:

Absolute mid- to high latitude temperature seasonality during greenhouse climates: Agreement between climate models and clumped isotope analysis in bivalve shells

 

THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR) 

Dr. Natacha Brion:

Potential urban mining of gold in wastewaters (SUBLIMUS project): Distribution and fluxes of metals in Brussels domestic wastewaters and sludge

 

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

 

AMGC SEMINARS JANUARY - JUNE 2021

 

Seminars with external speakers will be once a month. On other weeks, seminars are held by the internal AMGC researchers, students, and guests. 

 

THURSDAY 28 JANUARY, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Dr. Karen Fontijn

Associate Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles

Volcanology of the East African Rift

THURSDAY 11 FEBRUARY, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Dr. Carl Lamborg

University of California, Santa Cruz 

Changes in the Mercury Cycle: Now and Then

THURSDAY 25 FEBRUARY, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Dr. Pierre Delmelle

UC Louvain 

Volcanic explosive eruptions sequestrate more carbon in soils than what they emit in the atmosphere.

THURSDAY 11 MARCH, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Dr. Stephane Guedron

ISTerre (University Grenoble Alpes)

Mercury deposition during the Holocene in the Andes: Deciphering climatic and anthropogenic contribution

THURSDAY 25 MARCH, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Pincelli Hull

Yale University

Some like it hot: tropical temperatures and ecosystems over the last 100 million years

THURSDAY 8 APRIL, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Ryoga Maeda

PhD Student on EOS project ET-Home  - Joint PhD VUB-ULB

The distribution of trace elements among constituent minerals in H chondrites: focusing on rare earth elements and some other lithophile elements.

THURSDAY 22 APRIL, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Carina Gerritzen

Isotopes: The Key to travel through Time and Space 

Tessi Loeffelmann                                                                               

Come will Muspell’s people o’er the sea: the case of the Heath Wood Vikings. 

Jacob Griffith                                                                               
Outreach & Impact In A Period Of No Contact 

THURSDAY 6 MAY, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Tianhui Ma

Biogeochemical cycle of Hg in water and sediment in the Scheldt estuary and the Belgian Coastal Zone (BCZ). 

WEDNESDAY 12 MAY, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Dr. Mario Fischer-Gödde

University of Cologne

Isotopic constraints on the nature of Earth’s building blocks

THURSDAY 20 MAY, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Christophe Delaere (Ph.D)

Université libre de Bruxelles
Centre de Recherches en Archéologie et Patrimoine

Archaeology of high-altitude lacustrine socio-ecosystems and evolution of the global climatic signal in the central Andes (Bolivia, Peru)

WEDNESDAY 2 JUNE, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Dr. Jens Fiebig 

Goethe Universität - Frankfurt am Main

Benefits and perspectives of dual clumped isotope thermometry of carbonates

THURSDAY 17 JUNE, 4 PM CET (ZOOM WEBINAR)

Dr. Lisette Kootker 

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Mapping dynamic  and human-influenced landscapes  A critical review on the accuracy of the Dutch Sr isoscape(s)