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
December 2019 – Arctic week
The WeThaw team participates to the Arctic week in Paris to explain the advances of the project to a broader audience, and to meet with the French scientific network INPEC (Interdisciplinary Network on Permafrost Ecosystems).
September 2019 – The WeThaw team returns from Alaska
Returned from Alaska, the WeThaw team present the permafrost core samples and explain their first observations (press release on RTBF after fieldwork).
Octobre 2019 – Médaille Van den Broeck 2019 de Geologica Belgica
L’association scientifique des géologues de Belgique, dénommée Geologica Belgica, a décidé d’honorer les géologues cartographes ayant œuvré dans le cadre du PROGRAMME DE RÉVISION DE LA CARTE GÉOLOGIQUE DE WALLONIE. La Médaille Van den Broeck est décernée annuellement à un ou une scientifique ayant eu un impact primordial sur les sciences géologiques en Belgique. En 2019, Read more about Octobre 2019 – Médaille Van den Broeck 2019 de Geologica Belgica[…]
Septembre 2019 – PhD defense of Charles Vander Linden
Charles Vander Linden will defend his thesis on September 23rd about “Rainfall and land use control Si cycling in wet tropical Andosols”