On October 19 2023, Ilia Alomia publicly defended her PhD thesis entitled: “Environmental Impacts and Benefits of Agroforestry in the Galapagos Islands”. Summary Islands are particularly vulnerable to global change due to their limited size and remoteness. Sustainable land use practices based on nature-based solutions… Read More »PhD defense Ilia Alomia
On the 20th of December 2022, Nathan Vandermaelen publicly defended his PhD thesis entitled: “Further development in cosmogenic radionuclide applications in complex depositional environments : Middle Pleistocene deposits of the Meuse, NE Belgium”. Summary Cosmogenic radionuclides accumulate at the Earth’ surface as a function of… Read More »PhD defense Nathan Vandermaelen
PhD Defense, 01/12/2022. UCLouvain. A major concern for sustainable development in the Tropical Andes is the growing imbalance between ecosystem service supply and demand, particularly with regard to freshwater ecosystem services. While the capacity of the Tropical Andes to provide freshwater ecosystem goods and services… Read More »PhD defense Sebastian Paez
09/11/2022 The 9th of November, Beatriz will publicly defend her PhD thesis, entitled “Monitoring forest degradation patterns using multi-resolution spatial approaches”. Summary The subtropical dry forests of South-America have been impacted by deforestation and degradation over the last two centuries. The forests still provide important… Read More »PhD defense of Beatriz Gobbi