Rachèl Spros defended with success her PhD thesis in bioarchaeology
Today Rachèl Spros successfully obtained her PhD with a dissertation titled "Down the Ypres rabitt-hole: A multi-isotope analysis of a medieval urban population". Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Philippe Claeys, Prof. Dr. Ir. Christophe Snoeck from AMGC & Prof. Dr.
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Worldwide media on Science paper: dino killer meteorite came from Solar System outskirts
Major media attention in top 5% of all Altmetric research for our new paper published today in Science: with a team of international colleagues, using Ruthenium isotopes to show that the large meteorite that doomed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago came from the far end of the Solar System, way bey...
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Fieldwork Campaign in Historic Agricultural Terraces of Central Italy
In the Monti Lucretili area (70 km from Rome), the Medieval Castle of Montefalco stands atop limestone mountains, overlooking abandoned agricultural terraces.
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AMGC's new Argon tank installed
A new tank of Argon (Ar) gas has been installed today at the VUB to supply the Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometers (ICP-MS) of the AMGC group. This tank with a capacity of 2000 litres guarantees the regular, steady and continuous supply of Ar gas to the AMGC labs. The aim is to...
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FWO 2024 Climate Price for Niels de Winter
Niels de Winter is the laureate of the FWO Climate price 2024 for his work on bivalve shell as archive of high resolution ancien climate changes.
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Read more about the Testerep research in the newspaper 'De Morgen'.
A journalist from 'De Morgen' was on board the research vessel Simon Stevin and searched for the remains of 'Het Atlantis' off the Belgian coast.
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EOS article based on new micrometeorite paper
The new paper by PhD student Tom Boonants on cosmic spherules was picked up by EOS Wetenschappen for a nice and complete summary in Dutch.
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PLENARY TALK ON THE FUTURE OF SOIL SCIENTISTS IN ITALY 2024
“We all are the future of soil sciences… when understanding and supporting the young people and children” were the final words shared by AMGC doctoral fellow Axel Cerón González at the Centennial Celebration of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) on the 21st May 2024 in Florence, Italy.
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Cover of Nature Climate Change for our global warming hiding Antarctic meteorites paper
Our new paper made the cover of Nature Climate Change and received wide press coverage.
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Benjamin Avakian wins price at European Geothermal PhD days 2024 at TU Delf
Benjamin Avakian is a PhD student funded by Eutopia program between the Departement Geosciences et Environnement at CY Cergy-Paris Université and AMGC-VUB working withe Profs Béatrice Ledesert, Philippe Claeys and Steven Goderis .
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Tianhui Ma defended her PhD thesis on the biogeochemical cycle of mercury
Tianhui Ma successfully defended her PhD thesis on the biogeochemical cycle of mercury and other trace metals in aquatic systems. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Yue Gao and Prof. Dr. Martine Leermakers Examination board: Prof. Dr. Frank De Proft (Chair) Prof. Dr. Em. Willy Baeyens (Secretary) Prof.
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Flore Van Maldeghem defended her PhD on tracing the flux of cosmic dust to Earth
On February 26, 2024, Flore Van Maldeghem obtained the academic degree of DOCTOR of SCIENCE with the thesis "Unraveling the Solar System: Tracing the cosmic dust flux on Earth using Polar Sediments".
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