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5 March 2022: Welcome to Yuwei Zhang!
Yuwei Zhang from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing will be joining our research group for one year as an exchange PhD student. She will be investigating Lake Buqun in SE Tibet for paleoseismic purposes, in collaboration with Marc De Batist and Maarten Van Daele.
9 December 2021: New project awarded!
The Belgian Science Policy Office will be funding the NORSEAT (“Storegga and beyond – North Sea tsunami deposits offshore Shetland Islands”) project with 630 kEUR. Marc De Batist, Maarten Van Daele and an international team of experts will be using the new and state-of-the-art RV BELGICA II to study the offshore deposits of North Sea tsunamis around the Shetland Islands.
5 November 2021: Join us at the SSA Annual Meeting 2022!
Maarten Van Daele will be co-hosting a scientific session at the 2022 annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America in Bellevue, Washington (USA).
Submit your abstracts to the "Shakes in Lakes: Frontiers in Lacustrine Paleoseismology" session now!
For details and deadlines, visit the meeting website
25 October 2021: Join us at the EGU General Assembly 2022!
Inka Meyer will be hosting a scientific session at the 2022 general assembly of the Europen Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria.
Submit your abstracts to the "Climate and environmental change: Africa’s past, present and future" session now!
For details and deadlines, visit the meeting website
1 April 2021: Welcome to Kamill Lisson!
Kamill Lisson joins our research group as a PhD student led by Maarten Van Daele. He will be working on the characterization of turbidites and how these can be used to reconstruct geo- and climate hazards.
31 March 2021: Public PhD defence
Another successful virtual PhD defence. Congratulations, Dr. Elke Vandekerkhove!
19 March 2021: Public PhD defence
Katleen successfully defended her PhD research through a virtual MS Teams meeting. Congratulations, Dr. Katleen Wils!
Watch her presentation here (in Dutch)
17 November 2020: New PhD position!
Fully funded PhD position (4 years) on sedimentology of turbidites triggered by geo- and climate hazards: integrating X-ray CT with other datasets.
For more details, visit this website
11 September 2020: Public PhD defence
Nore successfully defended her PhD research in a Covid-19-proof set-up. Congratulations, Dr. Nore Praet!
Watch her presentation here (in Dutch)
1 December 2019: Welcome to Stijn Albers!
Stijn Albers joins our research group as a PhD student with Marc De Batist. He will be working on sediment cores and geophysical data of lakes in the Eifel region.
14-20 February 2019: Alaska field campaign
Looking for event deposits due to the November 2018 earthquake (M 7.0)!
Fieldblog & movies
24 December 2018: Krakatoa eruption and tsunami, Indonesia
More information on the Indonesian tsunami provided by Marc De Batist on the Flemish public broadcaster (VRT)!
More info: see article (Dutch only)
February 2018: Alaska earthquake & varve project
Participate in one of the largest crowdsourcing experiments in varve-counting history... Results available soon!
More info: contact us!
8 October 2017: Everyone Ghent University event
Discover the world of earthquakes and test your talents as a geologist in our interactive workshop!
Programme
2-24 September 2017: Sumatra field campaign
Unravelling the earthquake history of Sumatra, Indonesia...
Fieldblog
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