AMGC in Vietnam
Professors Yue Gao and Martine Leermakers organized a DGT workshop and training in Vietnam as parts of the Global Minds Programme. Afterwards they went on a field trip to deploy DGT in the Đáy River
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Barringer Fund for Meteorite Impact Research 2019 Award to Pim Kaskes
PhD student Pim Kaskes receives "The Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research 2019" to carry out detailed field mapping of the Chicxulub crater ejecta in North America. see https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/Awards/Barringer_Fund/awardees/
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Philippe Claeys op het podium voor Universiteit van Vlaanderen
On Monday 17 June 2019, Philippe Claeys is invited by Universiteit Van Vlaanderen, at Club Fuse in Brussels, to talk about the extinction of the dinosaures (In Dutch). Show starts at 19:00 and is to be recorded for the YouTube channel of Universiteit Van Vlaanderen
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Seminar: “WAVEPAL: A Python software for the frequency and wavelet analyses of irregularly sampled time series”
BY GUILLAUME LENOIR
I will present the Python package WAVEPAL which performs frequency and time-frequency analyses of irregularly sampled time series without interpolating the data. The frequency analysis is based on the Lomb-Scargle periodogram and the WOSA smoothing method.
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Alicia Van Ham - Meert PhD on development of new isotope tracers in Archaeology
Alicia Van Ham - Meert obtained on May 06, 2019 the academic degree of DOCTOR OF SCIENCES with the thesis: "Development of non-destructive analysis protocols for the chemical and isotopic analysis of archaeological materials". Joint PhD between the KU Leuven and the VUB, superv...
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Niels de Winter PhD on high resolution (year, season…) paleoclimates determination in deep-time
Niels de Winter obtained on February 22, 2019 the academic degree of DOCTOR OF SCIENCES with the following doctoral thesis " A critical assessment of the proxies, archives and techniques available for high-resolution paleoclimate reconstructions". With Philippe Claeys as advisor.&nb...
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Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Mercury Marine Biogeochemistry
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN MERCURY MARINE BIOGEOCHEMISTRY The Analytical, Environmental and Geochemistry (AMGC) at VUB offers a Post-doctoral Fellowship position.
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Dr. Christophe Snoeck nominated as Archeaologist of the year 2019
Dr. Christophe Snoeck is nominated as Archeaologist of the year 2019 and his research paper: Strontium isotope analysis on cremated human remains from Stonehenge support links with west Wales, by Snoeck et al.
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Mars landing of InSight life at VUB
De Vrije Universiteit Brussel organiseert maandag 26 november een live-streaming van de landing van het ruimtetuig InSight op Mars. Om 21 uur Belgische tijd landt InSight op de rode planeet.
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Kevin De Bondt PhD on optimized new methods for urban water management
Kevin De Bondt obtained on September 21, 2018 the academic degree of DOCTOR OF SCIENCES with the doctoral thesis "The forgotten connections between groundwater and urban water management policies: Stable isotope and the Urban Hydrological Landscape applied to Brussels". Thesis adviso...
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VUB researcher solves Stonehenge mystery
Christophe Snoeck's paper on " Strontium isotope analysis on cremated human remains from Stonehenge support links with west Wales " that was published in Nature Scientific Reports is seen as a breaktrough in developing insights on the Stonehenge mystery. His research...
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Workshop: Cyclostratigraphy Intercomparison Project
AMGC ORGANIZES THE CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT 2018 WORKSHOP IN BRUSSELS From July 30 till August 01, 2018 the AMGC research group will organize the Cyclostratigraphy Intercomparison Project 2018 Workshop in the ‘Paleis de Academiën” in Brussels. The main goal of...
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