New paper in PNAS Nexus on hot carbonates formed within the Dino killer Chicxulub crater
Using the AMGC Oxygen clumped isotope facilty, high temperature (> 300ºC) calcium carbonate fragments are identified deep within the Chicxulub crater in Yucatan.
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Key paper in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment on deep-time Cyclostratigraphy
Professors David De Vleeschouwer and Lawrence Percival, both former members of AMGCer's, authored a major review paper on Cyclostratigraphy and Paleoclimate that constitutes an major advance towards a fully astronomically-calibrated timescale for the entire Phanerozoic.
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AMGC science communication
This was a busy weekend for AMGC'ers in terms of Science outreach and presentations to a public of non-specialists. Check it out.
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Successful campaign in Cyprus
The third season of the Hala Sultan Tekke Hinterland project took place during the last week of October and the first two weeks of November.
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Worldwide media coverage of Dust as the main factor in dinosaurs extinction
Check out Altmetric of our paper “Chicxulub impact winter sustained by fine silicate dust”. It is a collaboration with Royal Belgian Observatory and Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.
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Bioarchaeology field sampling in Slovenia
Successfull field campaign in Slovenia The last but not least sampling campaign of the CRIME project (a collaboration of AMGC researchers with the University of Ljubljana , and the Jožef Stefan Institute , funded by FWO ) was completed in August 2023. The CRIME project focus...
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3 FWO TRAVEL GRANTS FOR AMGCer's
Excellent performance for Prof. Barbara Veselka, Dr. Hannah James and Dr. Jean-Guillaume Feignon from AMGC, all 3 obtained FWO travel grants to present their work at an international meeting or to carry out research abroad. Good job, spead the work done at AMGC.
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PhD position at AMGC in radionuclides and waste management
AMGC is hiring a new PhD student on a project in collaboration with SCK-CEN Topic: Novel assays of ‘difficult-to-measure’ radionuclides in the context of a sustainable waste management radionuclides used in medical applications. AMGC contact: Prof. Martine Leermakers More details...
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AMGC as urban engaged research group
The VUB is known as an "Urban Engaged University" very much integrated within the city of Brussels and so is AMGC that actively carries out research focused on Brussels, as shown by the new PhD project that is starting soon “ Revealing the Senne: a hidden landmark in the historical center of Brus...
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VENI funding for Former AMGC'er Niels de Winter
Prof. Dr. Niels de Winter was awarded a VENI grant to develop new research at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from the Dutch Research Council. Niels is a former AMGC'er who obtained his PhD in 2019 at the VUB with Philippe Claeys.
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New paper in Earth Science Reviews definitively refutes Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
A new paper authored by a large group of experts in domains ranging from Anthropology and Archaeology to Environmental Changes and Impact Cratering, published online this week in the well established journal Earth-Science Reviews, definitively refutes the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis...
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Jordi Sans Duño PhD on metal analyses using DGT devices
Jordi Sans Duño obtained on July 4th 2023, the academic degree of DOCTOR in of SCIENCE with the thesis "Measuring the availability of metals in large mixtures with diffusive thin films (DGT) devices" Joint PhD with the University of Lleida in Spain Supervisors: Prof. Yue Gao (VUB), Prof.
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