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Matthias Sinnesael PhD on cyclostratigraphy & astrochronology

Friday 12/06/2020

Matthias Sinnesael obtained on June 12, 2020 the academic degree of DOCTOR OF SCIENCES with the doctoral thesis: "Astronomical cycle identification methods and their application to high-resolution Ordovician stratigraphy". Joint PhD between VUB and Ghent University with Philipp...

Iridium found in dino killer crater

Monday 24/02/2020

Prof. Steven Goderis published a paper in Science Advances showing the presence of the KT boundary Ir positive anomaly within the Chicxulub crater in Yucatan (read it here open access) Check out VUB Today coverage, worldwide it attracted major media attention...

VLIZ North Sea Award 2020 for Camille Gaulier

Monday 17/02/2020

Camille Gaulier is the laureate of the VLIZ (Flanders Marine Institute) North Sea Award 2020 for her research on trace metals and their speciation in the Southern Bight of the North Sea and along the Scheldt estuary. Read below her comments on learning about this awar...

Paleoclimate research on TV

Saturday 15/02/2020

AMGC paleoclimate research using speleothems (stalagmite and cave deposits) is featured on Belgian TV (RTBF), with interview of Sophie Verheyden and Philippe Claeys. Click here to watch video (in French) This follows a large press coverage in Belgian me...

New Antarctic Meteorites

Sunday 02/02/2020

Professor Steven Goderis from AMGC was in charge of the 2019-2020 Belgian mission to Antarctica that collected meteorite from the Nansen Ice field, near Princess Elisabeth station. The international mission was composed also of Dr. Hamed Pourkhorsandi (ULB), Professor N...

PhD and PostDoc Position @AMGC

Wednesday 22/01/2020

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Kinderuniversiteit micrometeoriet

Monday 16/12/2019

For the scientists of the future, in the framework of "Kinderuniversiteit" at the VUB, PhD researcher Flore Van Maldeghem organized a workshop searching for and finding micrometeorites on the roof-tops in Brussels (see below a summary In Dutch) Samenvatting &

Genyffer Troina PhD on stable isotopes in cetaceans to determine trophic levels and ecology

Wednesday 06/11/2019

Genyffer Troina obtained on October 17, 2019 the academic degree of DOCTOR OF SCIENCES with the following thesis "Trophic interactions and ecology of cetaceans from the western South Atlantic" PhD jointly with Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil, carried out with as advisors AMGC'ers...