The team recently headed to Germany to collect ancient sediments in the hope of uncovering (more) fossil micrometeorites! βοΈ It was a fantastic trip: plenty of exploring, sampling, sharing ideas, plus enjoying a few laughs along the way! π @amgc-vub.bsky.social
#Micrometeorites #Fieldwork #Research
Ever wondered what our #micrometeorites look like up close, in color? This composite shows optical close-ups of FLUX samples captured by Dr. Thilo Hasse from @mfnberlin.bsky.social! Thanks, Thilo & the MfN, for these amazing results! More of their work: www.micrometeorites.org
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January continues to be a highly productive month for the team, whether weβre carrying out analyses in the lab or diving into data from our desks! Below are some snapshots of Clara, Deepak, and Jolantha hard at work, along with a view of the βRaman roomβ captured by Trygve βοΈ
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Starting 2026 with a new publication! π Dries Vergouwen modelled the seascape around Nea Paphosβan MA thesis turned peer-reviewed article. Very proud promotor!
#archaeologycyprus #DigitalArchaeology @amgc-vub.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
π£ Funded PhD fellowship available π£
We are looking for a PhD student interested in functional morphology and mammalian biodiversity during the Plio-Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa. The candidate will be part of the ERC PLIODIS project working with Prof Dr Gabriele Macho. More info π
Great job to our team member, Phoenix, who presented at this yearβs Dag van de Wetenschap! The focus was mainly on meteoritics, in particular the Ordovician meteor event. βοΈβοΈ
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Wishing everyone a Happy New Year! βοΈπ
To start the year, here are a few snapshots from December fieldwork conducted by our team member Deepak in the Lesser Himalayas and the Kutch Basin, together with a couple of other @amgc-vub.bsky.social members! π
The labs are busying this afternoon with our third year Bachelor students starting their four week projects! Students are testing carbon isotopes in beers, developing DGTs to measure uranium, measuring strontium isotopes in snail shells to see how they differ from plants, and more! ππ³πΊβοΈπ₯Ό
Delighted to announce the publication of 'New evidence for Pleistocene hominin presence in the north-east Arabian Desert, Iraq' by Dr's Ella Egberts, Jaafar Jotheri, and Andreas Nymark
Funded by the BISI Pilot Project Grant
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Celebrating the start of the academic year with our @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social friends π₯Όπππ₯βοΈ
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Lastly, the FLUX PhD and Post-docs wrapped up their week at the #EPSC with a few group photos! πΈ βοΈπ
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And also congratulations to our #post-doctorate members (Lisa, Samuele, and @trygveprestgard.bsky.social) for presenting their ongoing work on fossil micrometeorites! βοΈ
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A big congratulations to our PhD students who presented their posters at #EPSC last week! They (Clara, Deepak, @fienjo.bsky.social and Julius) shared their latest work on characterizing new micrometeorite collections from Greenland, the Atacama, and Antarctica! βοΈ
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The team is back from a very nice time in #Helsinki at this year's #EPSC! Below is a picture of us all, plus Vinciane Debaille of the UniversitΓ© Libre de Bruxelles, as well as Cem Berk Senel and Ozgur Karatekin of @orb-ksb.bsky.social!
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During these past weeks, the team has been busy analyzing many newly-found modern and fossil #micrometeorites! Featured in today's post is Clara and Samuele picking out new samples, as well as Maxwell and Trygve measuring their samples with the #Raman spectrometer! βοΈ
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We are on our way to @isba11.bsky.social π
Ready for a week of archaeology and science
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Our bioavailable strontium baseline for Corsica is out! βΈβ·Sr/βΈβΆSr ranges from 0.7075 to 0.7169 and was established from 245 plant & soil leachate samples from 125 sites.
Check out the article here lnkd.in/e6pDJFCY
and the dataset can be downloaded from the IsoArcH database here lnkd.in/eFNS5Xbw
It's time for more Raman spectra of micrometeorites! Looking forward to analyzing the large amount of data that we will be collecting over the next several days βοΈ #Spectroscopy
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Just after #Goldschmidt2025, our project's Principal Investigator, Steven Goderis, represented the FLUX team at #MetSoc2025 in Perth! βοΈ @amgc-vub.bsky.social
Had an incredible time at #Goldschmidt2025! We are delighted, and grateful, to have been able to present our ongoing research on micrometeorites. Hereβs a group photo with all the participants! πβοΈ @amgc-vub.bsky.social
In addition to the poster presentations, Fien, Lisa, Samuele and @trygveprestgard.bsky.social presented their talks on modern and fossil micrometeorites, as well as tektites! We are all grateful to have had the opportunity to present at #goldschmidt2025! βοΈ @amgc-vub.bsky.social
The team was happy to be presenting at #goldschmidt2025 in #Prague! On Tuesday last week, Clara, Deepak, Jannes and Julius presented posters on their analysis of various new micrometeorite collections, plus some interesting new cosmochemical data! βοΈ @amgc-vub.bsky.social
π± Fighting drought with treated wastewater? VUB researchers are onto something!
Using subirrigation tech, theyβre recycling purified wastewater to recharge groundwater & help crops. 2022 trials showed groundwater levels rose by 30cm locally! πΎMore details here π
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We are grateful to Lisa for having represented the FLUX team at this yearβs #AsteroidDay in Luxembourg! πβοΈ @amgc-vub.bsky.social
Congratulations #TEFRA team for this accomplishment and thank you, Sevi Triantaphyllou for inviting us to form part of this!
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This weekend our team traveled to Thessaloniki to celebrate the end of the #TEFRA project with two days of exciting conferences! π₯π₯
π’ New paper alert! π’
Iβm really happy to share our latest publication in AJBA! We explore how sampling cremated petrous parts & teeth helps reconstruct life histories and cremation practices π₯. You can find our paper through this link: doi.org/10.1002/ajpa... (1/6)
We are happy to end this week with a "family photo" of most FLUX (and related) team members! Despite the Sun being absent, our smiles remained present! A big thanks to Jean-Guillaume Feignon for the photo πβοΈ
These past two weeks have included quite a bit of work with the SEM! Today various members, including Julius and Lisa (below), have been imaging polished sections of their cosmic spherule finds! βοΈπ