Award for Ryoga
National Institute of Polar Research International (NIPR) Internship award granted to Ph student Ryoga Maeda. Ryoga will spend 3 months at NIPR from December 2021 to March 2022. In the framework of this project Ryoga Maeda will work with Dr.
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Plos One Paper by Dr. Kevin Salesse
Dr. Kevin Salesse from AMGC & BBLab experimentally cremated pigs remains and then used stable isotopes of C and O together with Fourier Transform Infra-Red Spectroscopy (FTIR) to determine the position of a body on the pyre and the presence of footwe...
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New paper by Dr. Ines Tomasek
Great work by Dr. Ines Tomasek , in collaboration with AMGC'ers and FARD team-members.
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2021 EOS Pipet Price for Niels de Winter
Niels de Winter, FWO post-doctoral researcher at AMGC and Marie Sklodowska-Curie post-doctoral research at Utrecht University is the 2020 EOS Pipet Award laureate (award for a young scientist given by EOS Magazine) Bravissiomo Niels de Winter .
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Bastien Soens PhD on micrometeorites collected in Antarctica
Bastien Soens obtained on September 17, 2021 the academic degree of DOCTOR OF SCIENCES with the following doctoral thesis: 'Petrographic and geochemical characterization of the micrometeorite collection from the Sør Rondane Mountains, Antarctica: Nature and origin of the extraterrestrial...
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EGU Cyclostratigraphy blog
Former AMGC'ers Dr. David De Vleeschouwer (PhD 2014), now Earth System Professor at Muenster University and Dr. Matthias Sinnesael (PhD.
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Flore teaches about Solar System.
In Oostende on Saturday 7th Aug. Flore Van Maldeghem from AMGC explained the formation of the solar system, planets and meteorites to the next generation of geologists and planetary scientists. Despite the rain, a good crowd attended the lecture, in the street, by Flor...
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GSA Bulletin paper on Chicxulub
In this paper, titled "Formation of the crater suevite sequence from the Chicxulub peak ring: A petrographic, geochemical and sedimentological characterization", recently published in Geological Society of America Bulletin, Pim Kaskes, FWO PhD fellow, describes the thick suevite sequences...
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IAS grant for Dr. Johan Vellekoop
International Association of Sedimentologists funds Johan Maastrichtian Geo-Heritage project Dr Johan Vellekoop (FWO senior postdoctoral researcher) received funding from IAS (International Association of Sedimentologists) to carry out a high-resolution sedi...
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Matthias publishes PhD paper in... Geology
Dr Matthias Sinnesael last (of many) paper from his PhD at AMGC is now available in Geology (read it here).
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Steven Goderis about meteorites in "Het Nieuwsblad"
Nice article in Dutch in Het Nieuwblad, a very popular journal in Belgium over meteorites, with an extensive interview of Prof. Steven Goderis. Title "Stukje meteoriet gevonden?
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Paper get worldwide press coverage
In this new paper published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment Dr. Niels de Winter and co-authors reconstruct absolute seasonal temperature by measuring clumped isotope in bivalve shells.
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