December 2021 – Radio RTBF – Tendances Première – “Au Chevet Du Permafrost”
Interview de Sophie Opfergelt par Véronique Thyberghien et Cédric Wautier (La première RTBF) dans l’émission Tendances Première Le Dossier : Au chevet du permafrost
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November 2021 – Prix CERA-De Vuyst 2021 for Maëlle Villani
Maëlle Villani, who recently started a PhD thesis in the WeThaw project, has received two awards, prix CERA 2021 & prix De Vuyst 2021, for her Master thesis entitled « Influence de la dégradation du pergélisol et du changement de végétation sur les propriétés de la litière et du sol ».
November 2021 – Prix Sophie Vanhulle for Maxime Thomas
Maxime Thomas has received the “Prix Sophie VanHulle 2021” for the best poster presentation at the “Midi étudiants-chercheurs”.
September 2021- Departure to Abisko for the WeThaw team for a 2-month monitoring
The WeThaw team is monitoring the shoulder period in Abisko, and the mission has been covered in the media: RTBF web article 10/11/21 & La première and Vivacité – Radio JT du 10/11/21 Journal télévisé RTL – 13H et 19H on 11/11/21, and RTL info – Web article du 11/11/21 DH net– Web du 11/11/21, Read more about September 2021- Departure to Abisko for the WeThaw team for a 2-month monitoring[…]
September 2021 – Participation to the conference Geologica Belgica 2021
Presentations by Maëlle Villani, Elisabeth Mauclet, Justin Louis and Alexia Gilliot at the Geologica Belgica conference in Tervuren, Belgium
August 2021 – Last Report from the IPCC on the cryosphere
Release of the last IPCC report AR6 with the recent updates on the cryosphere and permafrost
May 2021 – Prized communication of François Gaspard at the ELI Day conference
Public Selection for Oral Presentation on Wednesday, May 26 for François Gaspard with his presentation on “Waters in hydrothermal and polar environments: further developments for silicon isotope measurements” at the ELI Day conference at UCLouvain.
December 2020 – Participation to AGU Fall Meeting 2020
The five members of the WeThaw project participate to the AGU conference online. Monhonval et al., C012-0008Hirst et al., B120-11Mauclet et al., B123-03Thomas et al., C018-07Opfergelt et al., B028-10
November 2020 – PhD defense of François Gaspard
On 9th November 2020, François Gaspard has defended publically his PhD thesis on “Controls on weathering fluxes from hydrothermally-active volcanic regions ».
March 2020 – Seminar of Dr. Jens Strauss (AWI, Potsdam)
Seminar at UCLouvain on March 2nd – Deep permafrost carbon pools and their vulnerability to mobilization