Good collection of meteorites in Antarctica

 

After spending the holidays in Antarctica, an international research team composed of Maria Schönbächler (ETH-Zurich), Maria Valdes (Field Museum of Natural History-U. Chicago) and Ryoga Maeda (VUB-ULB), and guided by Manu Poudelet (International Polar Guide Association) and led by Vinciane Debaille has returned with more than 600 meteorites… including a 7.6 kg meteorite!! Mission accomplished and time to analyze them!

Successful Nanok expedition

 

You have probably heard about the Belgian NANOK expedition in Greenland, an ice triathlon for climate research – https://www.nanokexpedition.be/ .

In April 2022, the two explorers Gilles Denis and Nathan Goffart left Belgium and crossed the entire ice sheet (more than 600km from west to east) in pulka and total autonomy, kayaked along the west coast of Greenland and opened a new climbing route « Immaqa » at the southern tip of Greenland on a 550-metre vertical granite big wall. In September, they returned safely, starry-eyed, and with many samples and results for the scientific projects they supported during their expedition.

Few days ago, a debriefing meeting was held at the ORB with all the scientists involved in the NANOK expedition (ULB – Steeve Bonneville, Sibylle Boxho, & Nadine Mattielli, ORB, UCL, ULiège) and Gilles and Nathan – see photo. A unique opportunity to realize the real challenges that Nathan and Gilles have successfully completed, both on a sporting and scientific level – all the snow and sediment samples have arrived safely at the partner laboratories.

Congratulations again to Gilles and Nathan!

And see you soon for future public conferences and a film of their adventure on the big screen…

New PhD students joining the group

Laure Brenot and Tabegra Disando have joined the team (mandats Aspirants FNRS). Laure will characterize volcanic unrest using Machine Learning approaches. Begra will try to better constrain the eruptive history and dyanamics of Galunggung volcano in Indonesia. Olivier Fontaine has also obtained funding (FRIA) to explore volcanic tremor using dense seismic arrays.

Publications

Together with colleagues from Japan, France and Belgium, Corentin Caudron and  has detected pressurized fluids prior to the 2014 eruption at Mt Ontake (Japan) using continuous-based seismicity. More here: https://www.nature.com/collections/eihfbddfac.

June 2024 news from G-Time

News from G-Time Instruments: Nu instrument (finally) received by Vinciane and Nadine. New DAS interrogator and hydrophones for Corentin. Corentin and Geneviève have received the ULB ‘prix de la diffusion scientifique’ for the Lab Discovery Tour. News from Geophysics The drilling for shallow geothermal operations for the Wel-T Geo4D project is nearly completed on at…

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September 2023 news from G-Time

Excursion for our BA3 students in Corsica   Mapping course in magmatic and metamorphic terrains 2022-23 in Corsica (Bonifacio, Corte and Saint Florent regions) with BA3 Geology students supervised by Juliette Faucher (PhD VUB_AMGC), Sibylle Boxho (Assistant and PhD ULB_G-Time) and Nadine Mattielli (Prof. ULB_G-Time). An enriching experience in terms of geology teaching and personal and…

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April 2023 news from G-Time

Lab Discovery Tour – Geoscience Trail   Coordinated by Marie-Modeste Vaeyens, Geneviève Hublet and Corentin Caudron, our set of outreach activities has been a great success. During the Printemps des Sciences, we have welcomed the future generation of geoscientists during a week. With the help of a pool of motivated PhD students, technicians, researchers and…

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Some fresh news from G-Time

Good collection of meteorites in Antarctica   After spending the holidays in Antarctica, an international research team composed of Maria Schönbächler (ETH-Zurich), Maria Valdes (Field Museum of Natural History-U. Chicago) and Ryoga Maeda (VUB-ULB), and guided by Manu Poudelet (International Polar Guide Association) and led by Vinciane Debaille has returned with more than 600 meteorites……

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Welcome !

Welcome Ms Petra Godec, MSc Geology, University of Zagreb, joins the volcanology group as a laboratory assistant. Welcome ! NewsBy Admin31 mars 2022 Welcome Ms Petra Godec, MSc Geology, University of Zagreb, joins the volcanology group as a laboratory assistant. Welcome ! NewsBy Admin31 mars 2022 Welcome Ms Petra Godec, MSc Geology (University of Zagreb),…

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Nanok Expédition

In April 2022, two people from Brussels, Gilles Denis and Nathan Goffart, will travel to Greenland to carry out a world premiere: an atypical triathlon combining successively a 600 km crossing of the ice sheet in ski-pulka along the Arctic Circle, a descent of more than 1,000 km in a sea kayak along the east…

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FWO Project

New FWO project, Erupt, with UGent to monitor the subsurface with continuous electrical resistivity in Iceland, Chile and in the laboratory. A PhD student (Lore Vandooren) has already been hired and will do her PhD thesis in Ghent and ULB.   Nanok Expédition NewsBy Admin10 février 2022Leave a comment In April 2022, two people from Brussels,…

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