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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New Paper by Dr. Sietze de Graaff
A new paper as part of the recent PhD of Dr. Sietze de Graaff is published in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
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3 FWO TRAVEL GRANTS FOR AMGCer's
This year AMGC made a razzia on Research Foundation Flanders Travel Grants (FWO) to spread our research results all over the world. Dr Kevin Rey obtained financial support to attend the " The 6th International Palaeontological Congress " in Khon Kaen, Thailand, i...
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IAS POST-DOC. GRANT FOR DR. MARTA MARCHEGIANO
Dr. Marta Marchegiano, post-doctoral researcher at AMGC received an International Association of Sedimentologists IAS post-doctoral grant. The title of her project is "Ostracod living fauna from Lake Izabal (Guatemala) and Lake Victoria (Tanzania) as modern analogue to reconstr...
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DR. SIETZE DE GRAAFF PAPER TOP DOWNLOAD LIST IN SSRN
The pre-print of Sietze de Graaff is second in the SSRN top 10 list to download list. The paper is titled: The Chicxulub impact structure reveals the first in-situ Jurassic aged magmatic intrusions of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
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HAÜY-LACROIX AWARD FOR DR. SÉGOLÈNE RABIN
Dr. Ségolène Rabin is a post-doctoral researcher with Professor Steven Goderis on the BELSPO project DESIRE. She is the 2022 laureate of the Haüy-Lacroix award given by the "Société Française de Minéraologie et Cristallographie" for her PhD work carried out...
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Benjamin Jentgen PhD on histology of neosauropods in insular environments
Benjamin Jentgen obtained on July, 5th 2022, the academic degree of DOCTOR OF SCIENCES. The title of his doctoral thesis is "Histological and remodelling patterns among neosauropods in insular environments". Joint PhD between Vrije Universiteit Brussel &a...
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Niels de Winter Video over fossils and climate changes
Dr. Niels de Winter video for Universiteit Vlaanderen is online here It describes in details how ancient, often million years old fossil shells can provide very high resolution, down to season or days, paleoclimate information that make it possible to better understan...
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