Four members of the WeThaw team are going to Alaska for three weeks at the end of August 2019 to sample permafrost at maximum thaw depth of the active layer. Press release about the mission of the WeThaw project in Alaska : Television (RTL 13h, RTL 19h, RTBF 13h, TVcom), Radio (RTBF, Vivacité Journal, Vivacité Read more about August 2019 – The WeThaw team is going to Alaska[…]

You are a bioengineer or a scientist and you want to learn more about the functioning of terrestrial environment? You are a climatologist and you want to learn more about glacial terrestrial environments? You are a chemist and you want to learn how stable isotopes can trace environmental processes? You have an interest in anthropogenic Read more about January 2018 – Symposium “Non-traditional stable isotopes in glacial and non-glacial environments”[…]

On Thursday 13th December at 13h, Pr. Meiyan Liang from the China University of Geosciences will give a seminar about “Reevaluate grain size effect on geochemical indices of loess-paleosol studies in China since Miocene” (room B240,Croix du Sud, de Serres, 2nd floor). Dr. Meiyan Liang has joined the research group ELIE/SOLS as an academic visitor for one Read more about December 2018 – Seminar of Pr. Meiyan Liang[…]

On Thursday 22nd November 2018 at 11h30, Dr. François Fripiat from the Max Planck Institute will give a seminar about “European Seas in the Anthropocene and atmospheric CO2 during ice age” (room B240, Croix du Sud, de Serres, 2nd floor). François Fripiat has an expertise on the biogeochemical cycles of nutrients such as nitrogen, and is Read more about November 2018 – Seminar of Dr. François Fripiat[…]

On 11th October 2018, the visiting scientist Dr. Kate Hendry from the University of Bristol, gives a seminar about “Glaciers, icebergs and silicon: Preliminary findings from the ICY-LAB research expeditions to SW Greenland” at 13h in room B059 Building Carnoy at UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve