This week the environmental chemists of AMGC are at the DGT2023 conference in Paris! DGT2023 highlights the wide-ranging uses of Diffusive Gradient in Thin-films (DGT) samplers in studying solutes across diverse environments 🌊🧪 dgt2023.fr/home Our talks here 👇🧵

Today our 3rd year bachelor chemistry students shared their research projects on topics such as human exposure to trace elements in indoor dust, Sr isotope variation in plant parts, & the use of BCR sequential extraction & acid digestion to evaluate metal fractions in sediment 🥼

While enjoying the sunshine, Sybrien Lievens joined the Hondius crew and sailed across the Scheldt river for the monthly OMES (Onderzoek Milieu-Effecten Sigmaplan) sampling campaign to collect water samples in order to investigate the water quality👩‍🔬🚢🌊☀️ VUB Research VUB

Big news The field experiment I am involved in on the use of treated wastewater for subirrigation is a finalist of the European Agricultural and Rural Inspiration Awards (ARIA’s)🌾💧🏅VUB Research VUB Want to support our research? Please vote for us surveymonkey.com/r/6TK3DJS

Het proefproject "Gezuiverd afvalwater voor subirrigatie" (VUB, Bodemkundige Dienst van België, Aquafin en Boerennatuur Vlaanderen ) dat loopt op een landbouwperceel in Kinrooi, is geselecteerd voor een Europese landbouwaward in de categorie Innovatie.👉 vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023…

This week we hosted Prof. Dirk Wallschläger, a distinguished environmental chemist Laurier Research. Besides engaging in insightful discussions, he presented a compelling seminar. We are looking forward to future collaborations! #EnvironmentalChemistry #selenium🧪👨‍🔬Research VUB

For the GROW project Delphine Vandeputte and Yiqi Su👩‍🔬conquered the elements🥾🌤️yesterday to sample groundwater💧🧪at an agricultural field in Kinrooi used as pilot site to study the effect of treated wastewater for subirrigation🌱🚜🧑‍🌾 project-grow.be/landing Research VUB VUB

FWO heeft mij en mijn groenlandse micrometeorieten vermeld in hun aftelkalender! Bedankt! 🤩 Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry Research VUB

Very proud of our new PhDers Emma Legrand & Anneminne Frère. It's been a great year for the BB-LAB team, here's to a fun, interesting and productive year of research in 2024 (after a relaxing break)! BIG thanks also to our department Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry & our uni VUB 🎉

Proud to share the first environmental chemistry related paper from the interdisciplinary project GROW 👩‍🔬🧪💧 project-grow.be/landing rdcu.be/dvCqA

Proud to have presented my research 👩‍🔬🚜

At the VLIZ Marine Science Day #VMSD24 🐟⚓️️ in Ostend, Guanlei Li 👨‍🔬 presented his research on the mobilisation and distribution of trace metals in the Scheldt sediments 🧪🌊Research VUB Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ

Researcher in the OMES(Research on the environment effects of the SIGMA plan)project Sybrien Lievens 👩‍🔬 presented her work 🌊🚢on past and present carbon dynamics in the Scheldt estuary as traced by changes in the isotopic composition of DIC and POC at #VMSD24⚓️🐟Research VUB Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ

Amazing day of field sampling 👩‍🔬⚓️🌊

Great fieldwork with Dr. Michael Descostes and his team (Orano Group) and Benoît Reilé (Cabinet Reilé)! In 2 weeks, we sampled waters at 91 sites, deploying 1000+ DGTs to assess (radio)trace elements' concentrations & bioavailability in the Montagne Bourbonnaise region, France!💪

New paper on highly vaporized cosmic spherules recently published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science by AMGC researcher Tom Boonants ! ☄️ Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ma…