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Posts by Benoît Smets

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Great morning start, today, when I discovered this message on my whiteboard, written by two students from ENSG-Geomatique (France) happy of their internship at the AfricaMuseum. Thank YOU, guys! It was a pleasure to welcome you.

#africamuseum #geohazards #ScienceRocks

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NOAA’s Climate Website May Soon Shut Down - Eos Climate.gov, NOAA’s portal to the work of their Climate Program Office, will likely soon shut down as most of the staff charged with maintaining it were fired on 31 May.

Climate.gov will likely soon shut down, as most of the staff charged with maintaining it were fired. 🧪

eos.org/research-and...

10 months ago 136 92 13 21
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Reading the Earth: GeoRiskA’s Research on Geohazards and Disaster Risks On 22 April, we celebrate Earth Day. Since its first edition in 1970, Earth Day has become a key moment to reflect on our relationship with the planet, promote sustainability, and support initiatives ...

Happy Earth Day to everyone!

The GeoRiskA team takes advantage of this international day dedicated to our planet Earth to share some examples of scientific activities on geohazards and disaster risks.

#EartDay #africamuseum #geohazards @belspo.be

1 year ago 4 2 0 0
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ESA Sentinel-1 SAR amplitude change image highlighting the current flood (cyan colours) in Kinshasa, D.R.Congo. The extent within the city is probably much larger, as the backscattering of the buildings in densely urbanised areas tends to hide floods.

#flood #Kinshasa #DRCongo

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Animation showing a north-south rupture in the ground west of the Irrawaddy River, Mandalay, Myanmar, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck on 28 March.

In response to the disaster, #CopernicusEMS and the #DisastersCharter have been activated to provide satellite imagery to help relief efforts.

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Last Tuesday, MSc students in Geography of @vubrussel.bsky.social and @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social came to the #AfricaMuseum to learn more about photogrammetry. The programme included a guest lecture by @adille.bsky.social on remote sensing of slow-moving landslides and a UAV demonstration

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What about the IAVCEI Scientific Assembly, next June/July in Geneva?

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French Senator criticizes Trump
French Senator criticizes Trump YouTube video by Brut America

What a speech!

1 year ago 0 0 0 0
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My tweet of last November: The "what have you done?" resonates everyday in my head. It is like we are in a bad James Bond movie, except that the powerful villain is #POTUS and Bond is not there to save us.

#saveUkraine #saveUSAID #saveNOAA #saveNASA #saveNIH #saveUSGS ... #saveEarth

1 year ago 0 0 0 0
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This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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‘It is chaos’: US funding freezes are endangering global health Abrupt changes to programmes including USAID inhibit global efforts to stop disease such as HIV, malaria and more, say researchers.

As the Trump administration announces drastic policy changes, nowhere is the shock more palpable than in the field of global health

https://go.nature.com/3Q3yAZE

1 year ago 66 18 5 0
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How to sell your science without selling out A five-step guide to communicating your science ethically and accurately.

A five-step guide to communicating your science ethically and accurately

https://go.nature.com/3Et4j3V

1 year ago 59 16 0 1
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Gel de l’aide américaine et lutte contre le paludisme : les « pires scénarios ont été dépassés » Donald Trump a signé, le 28 janvier, un décret gelant quasiment toute l’aide internationale. Les ONG de lutte contre le paludisme s’inquiètent d’un impact dévastateur, alors que la résistance aux médicaments émerge et qu’un nouveau moustique fait craindre une large diffusion de la maladie.

Gel de l’aide américaine et lutte contre le paludisme : les « pires scénarios ont été dépassés »

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Tenure Track research professor in "Modelling of ice sheet-climate" Tenure Track research professor in "Modelling of ice sheet-climate"

🚨New tenure-track position 🚨 – Professorship in 'Modelling of ice-sheet climate interactions' available to reinforce the Physical Geography research group of the VUB. Application deadline: 14 March 2025.

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No more melted lava-like car's dashboard? 😉

1 year ago 1 0 1 0
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Do not miss the next geo-webinar! The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 24th January at 12.00 pm (Belgian time), via the Teams platform. If you wish to attend, do no hesitate to send an email at caroline.michellier(a)africamu...

This Friday (24/01) at 12h00 Elise Dujardin will present her work on modelling urban gullies across Africa at the geo-webinar of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Feel free to join online using the link below.

#Africa #AfricaMuseum #NaturalHazards #GeoRiskA

1 year ago 0 0 0 0
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Magmatic differentiation and plumbing system beneath Nyamulagira volcano (Virunga Volcanic Province, East African Rift) Nyamulagira volcano (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo) is one of Africa's most active volcanoes and poses a significant threat to the nearby r…

Happy to see the first paper of Ephrem Kamate published today. Congrats Ephrem. @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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