Dr. Perrine Mangion visiting from Université de la Réunion
During her 1 month stay, Dr Perrine Mangion performed the extraction and isotopic analyses of N and O in nitrates from groundwater and river water samples from La Réunion to identify the origin of the nitrate contamination.
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Climate rage for just transition - Lectures - Walks- Workshops - Debates
On October 29, at Wiels (http://www.wiels.org) a series of conferences presented by AMGC'ers Natacha Brion and Philippe Claeys, together with Landscape Architect Bas Smets discussion how to properly manage urban waters in Brussels and propose solutions for the future.
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Meteors & Placoderms, Lectures organised by Belgian Paleontological Association at VUB
Two lectures on Wed. Oct. 23 on VUB campus, room D.2.01, by Sebastien Olive (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences) on Placoderms (fishes) and by Philippe Claeys on the dinosaur extinction.
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Het Laatste Nieuws - 3 full pages on AMGC research
Our recent PNAS publication on the mechanism of the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago led to a special article (in Dutch) in the popular journal "Het Laatste Nieuws".
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Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI Meeting in Brasilia
Steven, Thomas, Sietze and Pim then carried out field work around the Araguainha crater, trying to avoid deadly snake bites.... Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI 2019 Meeting in Brasilia brought together impact crater specialists from all over the world.
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Harvesting gold and platinum from Brussels sewers
Innoviris, the Brussels Agency for Research and Innovation supports this new project called SUBLIMUS through its Bridge Strategic Platform: Green Chemistry action. SUBLIMUS develops an integrated low-cost and green process to harvest the substantial quantities of gold, platinum, silver pr...
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Science Advance paper
Paper title: An extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordovician ice age: Dust from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body .
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New PNAS paper on mechanism of Dino extinction
This new paper written with a large number of colleagues from the IODP-ICDP expedition 364 describes how the Chicxulub impact vaporized sediments from the target rock and injected a large volume of S-rich components into the atmosphere leading to the mass extinction.
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Upcoming AMGC Seminar
JEONG-HYUN LEE Dept. of Geological Sciences, Chungnam National Universit MARINE OXYGENATION AND THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF PALEOZOIC REEFS Friday, Sept. 13, 2019 11 am, room F10.720
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Geological Society of America Special Papers 542 is out
Manuscripts online at https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/2157
87Sr/86Sr record from the Lower Cretaceous pelagic Maiolica limestone (Central Apennines, Italy) and its offset from the global seawater reference curve
By Joke Belza; Walter Alvarez; Frank Vanhaecke; Philippe C...
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GSA Special Papers is out
Geological Society of America Special Papers 542 just published: Manuscripts online at https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/2157: 4 papers authored by AMGC'ers/ 1) 87Sr/86Sr record from the Lower Cretaceous pelagic Maiolica limestone (Central Apennines, Italy) and its off...
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Upcoming AMGC Seminar
JOHN W. VALLEY Charles R. Van Hise Distinguished Professor Dept. of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin – Madison HADEAN ZIRCONS ARE NOT FROM HELL: EVIDENCE FROM ATOM PROBE & SIMS Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019 4 pm, room F10.720
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