Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry

📣 Funded PhD fellowship available 📣 We are looking for a PhD student interested in functional morphology & mammalian biodiversity during the Plio-Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa. The candidate will be part of ERC PLIODIS working with Prof Dr Gabriele Macho. More info👇

Great job to our team member, Phoenix, who presented at this year’s Dag van de Wetenschap! The focus was mainly on meteoritics, in particular the Ordovician meteor event. ☄️☄️

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year! ☄️ 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 members! 😊

Sawing and hammering nice Ordovician Limestones which will be scanned using microXRF and dissolved to be searched for #micrometeorites by Clara, with the help of Julius, PhDs working in the @AMGC_FLUX_Team (@AMGC_VUB)

🌊The #TESTEREP project comes to an end — but its story keeps shaping how we see our coast. From ancient islands to today’s shoreline, TESTEREP research revealed 5000 years of change — blending science, art & heritage to bring the past to life. 👉vliz.be/en/news/ancien… Final conference today at @gem_Middelkerke by @AMGC_VUB @VLIZnews @kuleuven @howestDAE and @FWOVlaanderen. With @BRODER @Westtoer @provinciewvl @StadaanZee en @VLangouche. #MarineScience #Archeology #InterdisciplinaryResearch #ScienceCommunication

Our latest article by Sébastien Verkercke et al. on micrometeoroid impacts and lunar dust🌖 and a great interview about it @LiveScience : “Scientists finally find explanation for lopsided cloud that follows Earth's moon through space” livescience.com/space/the-moon… @AMGC_VUB @ORB_KSB

Lastly, the FLUX PhD and Post-docs wrapped up their week at the #EPSC2025 with a few group photos! 📸 @AMGC_VUB @LisaMeteorites @TrygvePrestgard

And also congratulations to our #post_doctorate members (@LisaMeteorites, Samuele, and @TrygvePrestgard) for presenting their ongoing work on fossil #micrometeorites at the #EPSC2025! ☄️ @AMGC_VUB

A big congratulations to our #PhD students who presented their posters at #EPSC2025 last week! They (Clara, Deepak, Fien and Julius) shared their latest work on characterizing new #micrometeorite collections from Greenland, the Atacama, and Antarctica! ☄️ @AMGC_VUB

The team is back from a very nice time in #Helsinki at this year's #EPSC2025! Below is a picture of us all, plus @vdebaille of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, as well as @cemberksenel and Ozgur Karatekin of the Royal Observatory of Belgium! ☄️ @AMGC_VUB

💥🦖66 million years ago, an asteroid hit Earth, ending the age of dinosaurs. ⏳But what happened in the minutes, hours, and years after impact? 🚨Our new @AGU_GCubed study uses ultra-high-res geochemistry to find out. Check it out here: 🧵👇 🔗agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20… @AMGC_VUB

Our bioavailable strontium baseline for Corsica is out! 245 plant & soil leachate samples from 125 sites shows ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ranges from 0.7075 to 0.7169. Check out the article lnkd.in/e6pDJFCY and the dataset can be downloaded from the @isoarch_eu lnkd.in/eFNS5Xbw

@ClaeysVub @GoderisSteven We’re very grateful to #FWO for funding this research and supporting planetary science 🛰️🔭 @ORB_KSB @AMGC_VUB

🎉 Thrilled to share our new paper just published in @PLOSONE! In this study we explored how weather & seasonality impact cremation conditions using experimental archaeology, FTIR-ATR, and isotope analysis. 👉 Read it here: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… @AMGC_VUB @BrusselsBioarch

It's time for more Raman spectra of micrometeorites! Looking forward to analyzing the data that we will be collecting over the next several days!☄️ #Spectroscopy

Just after @goldschmidt2025, our project's Principal Investigator, @GoderisSteven, represented the FLUX team at #MetSoc2025 in Perth! ☄️

IsoArcH is organizing its first Addithon, a 10-day virtual community event! This event will bring volunteers together from all over the world, to add to this ever-growing open data repository for isotopes from archaeological research. bit.ly/IsoArcH2025

Had an incredible time at @Goldschmidt2025! We are delighted, and grateful, to have been able to present our ongoing research on micrometeorites. Here’s a group photo with all the participants! 😊☄️

In addition to the poster presentations, Fien, @LisaMeteorites, Samuele and @TrygvePrestgard presented their talks today on modern and fossil micrometeorites, as well as tektites! We are all grateful to have had the opportunity to present at @goldschmidt2025! ☄️

The team is happy to be presenting at @goldschmidt2025! On Tuesday, Clara, Deepak, Jannes and Julius presented posters on their analysis of various new micrometeorite collections, plus some interesting new cosmochemical data! ☄️