Christina Makarona PhD on Late Bronze Age ceramics from Cyprus
Christina Makarona obtained on Tuesday February 28, the academic degree of DOCTOR OF SCIENCES. The title of her doctoral thesis is "Geochemical proxies for the technological study of Late Bronze Age ceramics from south-western Cyprus". Advisors Prof. Dr.
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Sarah Dalle PhD on Sr & 14C of Belgian cremated bones
On February 15, 2023 Sarah Dalle successfully defended her thesis “Exposing hidden transitions. Integrating strontium and radiocarbon data from archaeological cremated bone within the Belgian landscape”. Supervisors: Prof. dr. Guy De Mulder (UG), Prof. dr. Christophe Snoeck (VUB).
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Media storm about Tessi new Vikings paper
Tessi Loeffelmann paper in titled "Sr analyses from only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in Britain illuminate early Viking journey with horse and dog across the North Sea" receives lots of media attention. Tessi is finishing her joint PhD at University of...
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Antarctica field season culminates with a ~ 8 kg meteorite
This year field season in Antarctica led to the discovery of an almost 8 kg meteorite.
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Flore and VUB Children University
PhD researcher Flore Van Maldeghem is very active in the diffusion of AMGC research, and its communication to schools and a large public. At AMGC we make every effort to spread the results of our research widely, to schools and the public in general.
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Bye bye Chris Cheung
Dr. Christina Cheung in now a Professor in Anthropology in Hong-Kong.
After two great years as post-doctoral researcher within AMGC, Dr.
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New Antarctic meteorites
Great start for our 2022-2023 meteorite search in East Antarctica, using the Belgian station Princess Elisabeth as logistic base. AMGC'er Ryoga Maeda already reports the finding of several meteorites within the searched moraines deposits.
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New toy for Steven Goderis
Steven and his team enjoy a new toy for studying (micro)meteorites and the flux of extra-terrestrial particules to Earth. Thanks to funding from the Research Foundation Flanders, Hercules project : "Shooting stars and blasting dinosaurs: boosting ICP-MS capabilities across various r...
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AMGC team building
On December 12 & 13, 2002, AMGC members metin Oostende, at the Thermae Palace Hotel for the annual team building activities. Presentations were given and discussions occured under the leadership of Prof.
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Marion Peral & IODP Exp397
From October 11 to today Dr. Marion Peral was a scientist on the Joides Resolution IODP Exp 397. She is now returning to Tarragona (Spain) after ± 2 month at sea drilling the ocean floor offshore the Iberian margin in the South of Portugal.
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Philippe visits Marocco
Philippe Claeys was in Marocco end of November invited to present a keynote talks during the inaugural session of the MedGU 2022 Meeting. The Mediterranean Geosciences Union meeting (Nov. 28 to 30) was in Marrakech at the Cadi Ayyad University.
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BB-LAB is hiring
Join the BB-LAB to study the impact of past Rapid Climate Change on human mobility in prehistoric Belgium. PhD Position in isotope Bioarchaeology at the VUB within the recently funded LEAP project "Learning from the past: the impact of abrupt climate change on society and environments in...
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