Paleoclimate research on TV
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...
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New Antarctic Meteorites
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...
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PhD and PostDoc Position @AMGC
Click here to download the file pdf filejob-vub-2020.pdf (59 KB)
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Kinderuniversiteit micrometeoriet
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 &
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Genyffer Troina PhD on stable isotopes in cetaceans to determine trophic levels and ecology
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...
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New paper
More biogeoarchaelogy output from AMGC, Niels de Winter, Christophe Snoeck and Philippe Claeys, research presented at theBone Diagenesis meeting organized in Oxford in 2017. Read it here
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New paper by Niels de Winter, Christophe Snoeck, Philippe Claeys
More biogeoarchaelogy output from AMGC, research presented at the Bones Diagenesis meeting organized in Oxford in 2017.
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PhD defense of Alicia Van Ham - Meert
Joint PhD between the KU Leuven and the VUB, supervised by Professors Patrick Degryse and Philippe Claeys.
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PhD Genyffer Troina on Thursday Oct. 19
PhD jointly with Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil, carried out with AMGC'ers Frank Dehairs and Marc Elskens.
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Universiteit van Vlaanderen : Hoe zijn de dinosaurussen nu echt uitgestorven
Philippe Claeys video on YouTube for Universiteit Van Vlaanderen (in Dutch) about the end of the dinosaurs and the formation of the Chicxulub crater in Yucatan 66 million years ago, cause by the collision on Earth of a 10 to 12 km asteroid.
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AMGC intersciplinary research
The output is spread 50% in Earth and Planetary sciences, the rest is distributed between 9 other disciplines from Environmental Sciences 8.7%) to Arts and Humanity (6.1%), Physics and Astronomy (4.8%) etc. See figure below
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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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