WeThaw project timeline
15 November 2018 – Conference at the Rotary-club of Wavre
Sophie gives a general public conference about the impact of climate change on permafrost for the Rotary-club of Wavre (caricature by D. Ryelandt).
WeThaw involved in the ASSOCIATION OF POLAR EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS
Catherine Hirst from our team became a member of the Belgium APECS committee since October 2018. Her role is to represent the Belgium polar geochemist community and organize polar outreach with English speaking schools.
11 October 18 – Seminar of Dr. Kate Hendry
Visiting scientist Dr. Kate Hendry, 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
1 October 2018 – A new member in our team
Welcome to Arthur Monhonval, our new team member starting a PhD thesis
Challenge in an old abbey as a team building
Welcome to the MSc students 2018-2019
We welcome two MSc students for the academic year 2018-2019 at UCLouvain: Loic Debry and Maxime Thomas
MSc thesis defense about permafrost
Two MSc thesis defense: Arthur Monhonval about “Study of mineral element concentrations in Yedoma deposits with portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) and the impact of thawing on element release from these soils” & Nathan Bertouille about “Impact of thawing permafrost on its total, exchangeable and soluble mineral reserve”
Seminar of Catherine Hirst
Based on her fieldwork in the Lena delta in Siberia, Catherine Hirst gave a seminar on “Constraining the sources of iron in the Lena River basin, NE Russia: insights from microscopy, spectroscopy and isotope studies“
Seminar of Julien Fouché
With his expertise on carbon in Arctic permafrost environments, Julien Fouché gave a seminar at UCLouvain about “Impacts of both permafrost degradation and warming on CO2 efflux and dissolved organic matter composition in the Canadian Arctic“
Article from Science Today about Alaska
The fieldwork of WeThaw in Alaska is described to a large audience in an article from ScienceToday at UCLouvain