Ancient terrace hunting in Cyprus
“[…] when they [ancient local Cypriots] cut down all the trees, created the terraces with rocksto retain some water and avoid losing the soil” (Andreas N., personal communication, 7 February 2024).
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Ines Llopart Babot PhD on analyses of difficult to measure radionuclides.
Ines Llopart Babot obtained on February 2nd 2024, the academic degree of DOCTOR in of SCIENCE with the thesis "Development of novel assay for "difficult to measure" radionuclides in materials produced during nuclear decommissioning activities.
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Flore talks about micrometeorites on the radio
On Radio 1, fInishing PhD student Flore Van Maldeghem describes her research on micrometeorites and how extra-terrestrial material can be found on many rooftops.
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Website ready for Annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Brussels
For the first time, all meteorite, micro-meteorite, planetary & impact crater specialists gather in Brussels for their annual meeting from July 28 to Aug.
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Jérôme Roland PhD on condensation in impact generated vapor plumes
Jérôme Roland obtained on January 17th 2024, the academic degree of DOCTOR in of SCIENCE with the thesis "Condensation processes in impact-related vapor plumes evidenced by isotope fractionation" Joint PhD with the group G-Time at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
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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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