Denis Samyn
PhD in Geology
Glaciology ULB

NEWS:

+ now a 'JSPS' Post-Doc Fellow at the Dpt of Mechanical Engineering, Glaciology Group, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan [go];
+ 2009-2011: 'Marie Curie' Post-Doc Fellow at the Glaciology Research Group, Uppsala University, Sweden [go1; go2].

Note: the page here under has not been updated since March 2009.

Hi, welcome to my ULB-Glaciol website.
You'll find here under an overview of my work at the Glaciology Lab of the University of Brussels.
Feel free to contact me for any further information!
Cheers, Denis

(version française)

Why Glaciology?
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Academic_background
Scientific_research
International collaboration
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Other_relevant_information
Some more informal stuffs

Why Glaciology?

    As recently summarized by S. Marshall (EPSL, 2005), glaciers and ice sheets play a dynamic role in Earth’s climate system, influencing regional- and global-scale climate and responding to climate change on time scales from years to millennia. They are also an integral part of Earth’s landscape in alpine and polar regions, where they are an active agent in isostatic, tectonic, and Earth surface processes. [...] Quantitative understanding of glacier dynamics is important to Earth systems models which examine climate evolution over long time scales, as well as shorter-term forecasts of glacier and ice sheet response to climate change in the decades and centuries ahead. In other words, the information that glaciers and ice sheets reposit can not only be regarded as valuable archives of past environmental conditions, but also as indicators of current environmental change. This is why people from various Science disciplines have gathered since a few decades to study the Cryosphere, that is, places on Earth where ice is present.

    In this context, the ULB Glaciology Lab mostly focuses on the physical and chemical characteristics of the basal zone of terrestrial ice bodies. This basal zone comprises what is known as "basal ice", i.e. ice present at the interface between the ice trunk and its substrate. Studying basal ice is crucial in glaciology, because basal characteristics are a major control on the flow behaviour of the entire ice mass. Geochemical and structural analysis of the basal zone of glaciers and ice sheets around the world has actually brought first-order information on how ice reacts to environmental changes materialized by e.g. fluctuations in precipitation rate, in meltwater discharge or in impurity content. In fact, basal ice studies provide, if one can retrieve it, a "frozen picture" of the physical state of the ice body.

    The research program we have recently launched at ULB, ASPI, seeks to investigate subglacial processes and interactions with the ice sheet, through a multidisciplinary approach. This comprises numerical ice-sheet modelling, ice-core analysis, laboratory experiments and field investigations. Such multidisciplinary approach will facilitate the glaciodynamic study of the subglacial interface in its broad sense, such as interactions with subglacial and proglacial lakes, basal hydrology, ice streams, grounding line dynamics, and the imprints (erosional) and remnants (glacial sedimentation) of past basal ice presences on the continental shelves.

My coordinates

• Name: SAMYN Denis
  
• Birthplace and date: Mouscron (Belgium), 5^th Sept. 1977
• Nationality: Belgian
• Address:
  

Laboratoire de Glaciologie
Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50 CP 160/03
B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgique

• Office: Solbosch; Build. D; 4^th fl.; room 126 [access map]  [campus map]
• Email: desamyn@ulb.ac.be 
• Phone: +32-2-650 2215 
• Fax: +32-2-650 2226
  

• Post-doc fellow, Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2005 - 2008.
  Funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), through the ASPI (Antarctic Subglacial Processes and Interactions) research program.
  Management of the multi-parametric analysis of basal ice and marine ice samples; instrumentational development; research; follow-up of master and PhD students.

• PhD (Doctorat) in Geology, Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2002 - 2005.
  Thesis title: “Structural and geochemical analysis of basal ice from Taylor Glacier, Dry Valleys , Antarctica :
                       On the role and behaviour of the interstitial fluid phase”. [abstract]
  Grant financed by the Belgian National Science Foundation (through F.R.I.A.).
  Supervisors: Prof. R. Souchez and R. Lorrain. 

• Master in Earth Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Belgium, 2002 - 2003.
  Thesis title: “Equifinality of basal ice facies at the base of an Antarctic cold glacier”.
  Supervisors: Prof. R. Souchez and R. Lorrain.

• M.Sc. (Licence) in Geological Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1998 – 2001.
  Thesis title: “Deformation and composition of ice at the base of Taylor Glacier, Dry Valleys, Antarctica”; written in French.
  Supervisors: Prof. R. Souchez and R. Lorrain.

• Complementary Certificate in Archeology and Art History, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1999 – 2000.

• B.Sc. (Candidatures) in Geology, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1996 – 1998.

Scientific research

Peer-reviewed papers

• Samyn, D., Fitzsimons, S. and Lorrain, R. 2009. Rotating micro-structures in Antarctic cold basal ice: implications for glacier flow and its interpretation. International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau), DOI 10.1007/s00531-009-0478-5 [PDF].
• Mager, S., Fitzsimons, S., Frew, R., Samyn, D. and Lorrain, R. 2009. Composition of amber ice and its influence on the behaviour of cold glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology, vol. 55, No. 190, 363-372 [PDF].
• Pattyn, F., Delcourt, C., Samyn, D., Desmedt, B. and Nolan, M. 2008. Bed properties and hydrological conditions underneath McCall Glacier, Alaska, USA. Annals of Glaciology, vol. 50, No. 51, 80-84 [PDF].
• Hubbard, B., Roberson, S., Samyn, D. and Merton-Lyn, D. 2008. Digital optical televiewing of ice boreholes. Journal of Glaciology, vol. 54, No. 188, 823-830. [PDF].
• Samyn, D., Svensson, A. and Fitzsimons, S. 2008. Discontinuous recrystallization in cold basal ice from an Antarctic glacier: dynamic implications. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, F03S90, doi:101029/2006JF000600. [PDF].
  
• Durand, G., Samyn, D., Persson, A. and Svensson, A. 2008. Relation between neighbouring grains in the upper part of the NorthGRIP ice core – Implications for rotation recrystallization. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 265, 666-671. [PDF].
  
• Fitzsimons, S., Webb, N., Mager, S., MacDonell, S.,  Lorrain, R. and Samyn, D. 2008. Mechanisms of basal ice formation in polar glaciers: an evaluation of the apron entrainment model. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 113, F02010, doi:10.1029/2006JF000698. [PDF].
• Mager, S., Fitzsimons, S., Frew, R. and Samyn, D. 2007. Stable isotope composition of the basal ice from Taylor Glacier, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. U.S. Geological Survey and The National Academies; USGS OFR-2007. [PDF]
  
• Samyn, D., Fitzsimons, S. and Lorrain, R. 2005. Strain-induced phase changes within cold basal ice from Taylor Glacier (Antarctica) indicated by textural and gas analyses. Journal of Glaciology, vol. 51, No. 175, 611-619. [PDF]
• Samyn, D., Svensson A., Fitzsimons, S. and Lorrain, R. 2004. Ice crystal properties of amber ice and strain enhancement at the base of cold Antarctic glaciers. Annals of Glaciology, vol. 40, 185-190. [PDF].
• NGRIP Members [whom Samyn, D.]. 2004. High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period. Nature, 432, 147-151. [PDF]
• Souchez, R., Samyn, D., Lorrain, R., Pattyn, F. and Fitzsimons, S. 2004. An isotopic model for basal freeze-on associated with subglacial upward flow of pore water. Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 31, L02401. [PDF]
• Sleewaegen, S., Samyn, D., Fitzsimons, S. and Lorrain, R. 2003. Equifinality of basal ice facies from an Antarctic cold-based glacier. Annals of Glaciology, vol. 37, 257-262. [PDF]

Scientific reports

• Pattyn, F. and others [whom Samyn, D.]. 2007. Antarctic Subglacial Processes and Interactions: role of transition zones in ice sheet stability (ASPI).
  Research Program on the Antarctic, Phase VI, Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO). Research Project report SD/CA/02.
• Lorrain, R. and others [whom Samyn, D.]. 2005. Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics and climatic change: Modelling and Ice Composition Studies (AMICS).
  Belgian Research Program on the Antarctic, Phase V, Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO). Research Project report EV/03/08, 84 pp. [PDF]

• “1st Workshop on the Geomicrobiology of Glacial Environments”, 8-9 October 2009, Bristol (UK).
  Oral presentation: “The importance of basal ice studies in assessing microbial activity in glacial environments and its consequences for the ice core community”,
  by Samyn, D. [go]
  
• “MOCA Joint Assembly”, 19-29 July2009, Montreal (Canada).
  Oral presentation: “Recrystallization Regimes in Cold Basal Ice from Antarctic Glaciers”,
   by Samyn, D., Fitzsimons, S. and Lorrain, R. [go]
• “Svartisen Subglacial Workshop”, 25-26 March 2009, Svartisen (Norway).
  Oral presentation: “Basal Ice Processes in the Polar Regions”,
  by Samyn, D. [go]
  
• “33d International Geological Congress”, 6-15 Aug. 2008, Oslo (Norway).
  Oral presentation: “Investigating the potential for palaeo-climatic record in buried ice from the Dry Valleys, Antarctica”,
  by Samyn, D., Lorrain, R., Tison, J-L. and Marchant, D. [go]
  
• “33d International Geological Congress”, 6-15 Aug. 2008, Oslo (Norway).
  Poster presentation: “Insights into basal ice processes at Akademii Nauk ice cap, Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, High Russian Arctic”,
  by Samyn, D., Tison, J-L., Meyer, H., Schütt, R. and Fritzsche, D. [go]
  
• “International Symposium on Radioglaciology and its Applications”, 9-13 June 2008, Madrid (Spain).
  Poster presentation: “Bed properties and hydrological conditions underneath McCall Glacier, Alaska, USA”,
  by Pattyn, F., Delcourt, C., Samyn, D., Desmedt, B. and Nolan, M. [go]
• “4th General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union”, 14-18 April 2008, Vienna (Austria).
  Poster presentation: “Application of digital optical televiewing to ice-mass boreholes”,
  by Hubbard B., Roberson S. and Samyn, D. [PDF abstract]
• “ESF LESC Exploratory Workshop: Modelling and Interpretation of Ice Microstructure”, 8-11 April 2008, Göttingen, Germany.
  Oral presentation (invited): “A geological approach as a link between micro-deformation of debris-laden basal ice and macro-behaviour of ice bodies: examples from cold Antarctic glaciers”,
  by Samyn, D. [go]
  
• “Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union”, 8-15 Dec. 2007, San Francisco (USA).
  Poster presentation: “Flow pattern and rheology of marine ice from Nansen Ice Shelf, Antarctica: constraints for modeling”,
  by Samyn, D., Remy J.-P., Duval P., Montagnat M. and Tison J.-L. [PDF abstract]
• “10^th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences”, 26-31 Aug. 2007, Santa Barbara (USA).
  Oral presentation: “Stable isotope composition of the basal ice from Taylor Glacier, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica”,
  by Mager S., Fitzsimons S.,  Frew R. and Samyn, D.  [PDF abstract]
• “10^th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences”, 26-31 Aug. 2007, Santa Barbara (USA).
  Oral presentation: “Basal processes in an Antarctic polythermal glacier”,
  by Fitzsimons S., Mager S., Lorrain R. and Samyn, D.  [PDF abstract]
• “3^d General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union”, 15-21 April 2007, Vienna (Austria).
  Poster presentation: “Introducing the concept of low-angle grain boundaries in ice core crystallographic studies:
  towards a more precise material characterization”,
  by Samyn, D. and Durand, G. [PDF abstract]
• “3^d General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union”, 15-21 April 2007, Vienna (Austria).
  Poster presentation: “Compression experiments on marine ice from Nansen Ice Shelf, Antarctica:
  implications for ice-shelf/continent interactions”,
  by Samyn, D., Remy J.-P., Duval P., Montagnat M. and Tison J.-L. [PDF abstract]
• “3^d General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union”, 15-21 April 2007, Vienna (Austria).
  Poster presentation: “Crystallography of marine ice from Nansen Ice Shelf, Antarctica: on the development of compression folding”,
  by Samyn, D., Remy J.-P., Svensson A. and Tison J.-L. [PDF abstract]
• “3^d General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union”, 15-21 April 2007, Vienna (Austria).
  Poster presentation: “Gas properties of EPICA Dronning Maud Land (EDML) basal refrozen water”,
  by Boereboom T., Samyn, D.., Kipfstuhl S., Wilhems F. and Tison J.-L. [PDF abstract]
• “3^d General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union”, 15-21 April 2007, Vienna (Austria).
  Poster presentation: “Preliminary results on ice characteristics from two Ice-wedges at Cape Mamontovy Klyk, Laptev Sea, Northern Siberia”,
  by Boereboom T., Samyn, D., Meyer H. and Tison J.-L. [PDF abstract]
• “2^dGeneral Assembly of the European Geosciences Union”, 3-8 April 2006, Vienna (Austria).
  Oral presentation: “Investigating discontinuous recrystallization in cold basal ice from an Antarctic glacier”,
  by Samyn, D., Svensson A. and Fitzsimons S. [PDF abstract]
• “AGU Fall Meeting”, 5-9 December 2005, San Francisco (USA).
  Poster presentation: “Taylor Glacier basal ice, Antarctica; a biogeochemical hot-spot in a glacial environment”,
  by Skidmore M., Christner B., Samyn, D. and Lorrain R. [PDF abstract]
  
• “1^st General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union”, 24-29 April 2005, Vienna (Austria).
  Poster presentation: “Dynamic recrystallization associated with gas composition changes in basal ice from an Antarctic glacier”,
  by Samyn, D., Svensson A., Fitzsimons S. and Lorrain R. [PDF abstract]
• “3^d International QRA Postgraduate Symposium”, 14-17 Sept. 2004, Brussels (Belgium).
  Oral presentation: “Evidences for alteration of gas and isotopic composition in basal ice from Antarctic cold-based glaciers”,
  by Samyn, D., Fitzsimons S. and Lorrain R.
• “International Symposium on Ice and Water Interactions: Processes Across the Phase Boundary”, 26-30 July 2004, Portland (Oregon, USA).
  Oral presentation: "Enhanced deformation at the base of cold Antarctic glaciers: the case of amber ice",
  by Samyn, D., Svensson A., Fitzsimons S. and Lorrain R.
• “International Symposium on Ice and Water Interactions: Processes Across the Phase Boundary”, 26-30 July 2004, Portland (Oregon, USA).
  Poster presentation: "Ice-fabric analyses in very fine-grained ice at last possible: an example from Antarctic cold basal ice",
  by Samyn, D. and Svensson A.
• “International Symposium on Ice and Water Interactions: Processes Across the Phase Boundary”, 26-30 July 2004, Portland (Oregon, USA).
  Oral presentation: "Basal ice formed by freezing of upward flowing pore-water indicated by its isotopic composition",
  by Lorrain R., Samyn, D., and Souchez R.
• “Workshop on Dynamic Interaction between the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Subglacial environment”, 6-7 April 2004, Brussels (Belgium).
  Oral presentation: “Ice composition evidence for the role of liquid water at the base of cold glaciers from the Dry Valleys, Antarctica”,
  by Samyn, D., Sleewaegen S. and Lorrain R.
  
• “Workshop on Dynamic Interaction between the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Subglacial environment”, 6-7^th April 2004, Brussels (Belgium).
  Oral presentation: “Isotopic composition of basal ice formed by upward flow of pore water”,
  by Souchez R., Samyn, D., Lorrain R. and Pattyn F.
• “26^th Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Glaciology”, 19-20 Nov. 2003, NIPR, Tokyo (Japan).
  Oral presentation (invited): “On the structure and gas composition of deformed basal ice from a cold polar glacier”,
  by Samyn, D., Fitzsimons S. and Lorrain R.
• “26^th Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Glaciology”, 19-20 Nov. 2003, NIPR, Tokyo (Japan).
  Poster presentation: “Gas composition and microstructural analyses as tools for studying deformation of basal ice from cold polar glaciers”,
  by Samyn, D., Fitzsimons S. and Lorrain R.
• "7th International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology - ISAG -7", 25-29 Aug. 2003, Milano (Italy).
  Oral presentation: "Ice deformation effects on the gas composition of basal ice from Taylor Glacier (Dry Valleys, Antarctica)",
  by Samyn, D., Fitzsimons S. and Lorrain R.
• “International Symposium on Physical and Mechanical Processes in Ice in relation to Glacier and Ice-sheet Modelling”, 26-30 Aug. 2002, Chamonix Mont-Blanc (France).
  Poster presentation: "Build-up of basal ice facies beneath a dry-based Antarctic glacier”,
  by Sleewaegen S., Samyn, D., Fitzsimons S. and Lorrain R.

• “Geographers Day”, 24-25 October 2008, Université Libre de Bruxelles - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels [go].
  Oral presentation: “Basal ice processes in Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, Russian Arctic”,
  by Samyn D., Tison J.-L., Meyer H., Schütt R. and Fritzsche D. [PDF abstract]
  
• “Be-Poles Workshop”, 23-25 March 2006, Royal Museum of Natural History, Brussels.
  Oral presentation: “Basal ice processes: their importance for the knowledge of environmental evolution in Polar environments”,
  by Samyn D. [PDF abstract]
• “Be-Poles Workshop”, 23-25 March 2006, Royal Museum of Natural History, Brussels.
  Poster presentation: “Antarctic Subglacial Processes and Interactions: the role of transition zones in ice sheet stability”,
  by Pattyn, F., Tison J.-L., Huybrechts, P., Samyn D. and Lorrain R. [PDF abstract]
• “AMICS Workshop”, 6-7 April 2004, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels.
  Oral presentation: “Ice composition evidence for the role of liquid water at the base of cold glaciers from the Dry Valleys, Antarctica”,
  by Samyn D., Sleewaegen S. and Lorrain R. [go]
• “AMICS Workshop”, 6-7 April 2004, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels.
  Oral presentation: “Isotopic composition of basal ice formed by upward flow of pore water”,
  by Souchez R., Samyn D., Lorrain R. and Pattyn F. [go]

International collaboration

• Prof. S.J. Fitzsimons (Univ. Otago, N-Z): understanding the thermal and mechanical processes operating beneath cold glaciers in the Dry Valleys, Antarctica;
• Prof. M. Sharp (Univ. Alberta, CA): biogeochemistry of debris-rich ice, hydrological processes and nutrient cycling in melt ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf;
• Dr. A. Svensson (Niels Bohr Institute, Univ. Copenhagen, DK): development of an automated crystallographic technique for the analysis of debris-rich ice;
• Prof. D.R. Marchant (Univ. Boston, USA): geomorphological and glaciological study of burried ice in the Dry Valleys, Antarctica;
• Dr. P. Duval and Dr. M. Montagnat (LGGE-CNRS, Grenoble, F): deformation experiments on marine ice samples;
• Prof. B. Hubbard (Univ. Aberystwyth, UK): ice coring, borehole survey and fabric analysis at Tsanfleuron Glacier, Switzerland;
• Dr. M. Nolan (Univ. Fairbanks, Alaska): ice coring, radar measurements and fabric analysis at McCall Glacier, Alaska;
• Dr. S. Kipfstuhl (Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, D): analysis of deep ice from Epica Dronning Maud Land (EDML) site;
• Dr. R. Mulvaney (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK): analysis of basal ice from Epica Berkner Island (EBI) site;
• Dr. M. Skidmore (Univ. Montana, USA): biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology of debris-bearing ice from polar glaciers;
  
• Dr. J. Wadham (Univ. Bristol, UK): biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology of debris-bearing ice from polar glaciers;
• Dr. D. Fritzsche (Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, D): analysis of basal ice from Akademii Nauk ice cap (Severnaya Zemlya, Siberian Arctic).
  

• Fellowship from the British Council and FNRS to organize a workshop on Ice Geomicrobiology at the Bristol Glaciology Center (UK), March 2009 [go].
  
• Travel grant from the Bureau International de la Jeunesse (BIJ, Belgium) to attend the Workshop on Subglacial Processes, 25-26 March 2009.
  
• Travel grant from the British Council and FNRS for a short term scientific visit to the Center for Glaciology of Aberystwyth Univ. (UK), Feb. 2009.
  
• ESF invitation for presentation at the “ESF LESC Exploratory Workshop: Modelling and Interpretation of Ice Microstructure”, 8-11 April 2008, Göttingen, Germany [go; report].
• Travel grant from F.N.R.S. (Belgian National Science Foundation) to attend the « Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union », 8-15 Dec. 2007, San Francisco (California, USA).
• Marie Curie Fellowship for attending the 2007 Summerschool on "Partial Melts and Amorphous Solids", 20-30 August 2007, Estremoz (Portugal). [go]
• Travel fellowship from Be-Poles (Belgian Science Policies) for a short term scientific visit to the Glaciology Group of Copenhagen Univ. (DK), Nov. 2006. [announce 1; 2].
• Travel grant from the International Relation and Cooperation Office (BRIC) of ULB to cover research visits to LGGE (Grenoble), May 2006.
  
• Travel grant from F.N.R.S. (Belgian NSF) to attend the « General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union », 24-29 April 2005, Vienna (Austria).
  
• Travel grant  from F.N.R.S. (Belgian NSF) for training in crystallographic techniques at the Glaciology Group (Niels-Bohr Institute) of the Univ. of Copenhagen, Dec. 2004.
• Travel grant from F.N.R.S. (Belgian NSF) to attend the « International Symposium on Ice and Water Interactions », 24-30 July 2004, Portland (Oregon, USA).
• Fellowship from N.I.P.R. (Japanese National Institute for Polar Research) to attend the « 26^th Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Glaciology », 17-24 November 2003, Tokyo (Japan).
• Travel grant from F.N.R.S. (Belgian NSF) to attend the « 7^th International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology - ISAG-7 », 25-29 August 2003, Milan (Italy).
• Travel grant from the Communauté Française de Belgique to attend the « 7^th International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology - ISAG-7 », 25-29 August 2003, Milan (Italy).
• Fellowship from F.N.R.S. (Belgian National Science Foundation) to participate to NorthGRIP (North Greenland Ice Core Project), Season 2003.
• PhD grant from F.R.I.A. (Belgian National Science Foundation) from Oct. 2003 to Sept. 2005.
• PhD grant from F.R.I.A. (Belgian National Science Foundation) from Oct. 2001 to Sept. 2003 [go].

• Laureate of the Prize of the Belgian Fund for Vocation, May 2007 [go].

• Breid Bay, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, Nov.-Dec. 2008. Drilling of marine ice and radio-echo sounding in the grounding line vicinity of an ice rise - Belissima project [blog; pics; pic].
• Tsanfleuron Glacier, Switzerland, Oct. 2008. Co-PI. Testing of drilling equipment - preparation of an Antarctic expedition.
• Tsanfleuron Glacier, Switzerland, Sept. 2007. PI. Drilling of glacier ice cores for compression experiments + testing of experimental camera for borehole logging. More news soon...
  
• Minna Bluff, McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Austral summer 2006-2007. Co-PI. Radio-echo sounding of sedimentary structures at the ice sheet/ice shelf boundary + marine ice drilling [blog].
• Tsanfleuron Glacier, Switzerland, Sept. 2006. Co-PI. Testing of drilling equipment - preparation of an Antarctic expedition [report + pics]
• McCall Glacier, Alaska, Aug. 2006. Radio-echo sounding (by ice-penetrating radar) of the glacier bed (with Dr. Matt Nolan, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks). [pics]
• Tsanfleuron Glacier, Switzerland, Sept. 2004. Maintenance of snow/ice temperature logging stations and data downloading (with Prof. B. Hubbard, Aberystwyth Univ., UK). [pics]
• NGRIP (North GReenland Ice Core Project), Season 2003. Representative in the field of the Belgium glaciology group.  
  General field assistant on site, shallow drill assistant, sample processing assistant (ECM and stable isotope processing, thin sections). [pics]
  
• Victoria Upper Glacier, Dry Valleys of McMurdo, Antarctica, Austral summer 2002-2003. Basal ice and lake ice sampling and radar in Victoria Valley (with S.J. Fitzsimons, Univ. Otago, NZ). 
  Excavation of a 30-meter long subglacial tunnel, sampling of basal ice, drilling of lake shallow ice cores, measurements of glacier ice thickness (ice-penetrating radar). [pics]
• Connemara, Ireland, July 2000. Fieldwork in regional geology and cartography, as part of the M.S. in Geology, Université Catholique de Louvain.
• Tournai, Belgium, July 1999. Fieldwork in Carolingian and Merovingian archaeology, Cathedral of Tournai (Belgium), as part of the Complementary Certificate in Archeology and Art History, Université Catholique de Louvain.
• Scotland, UK, July 1998. Fieldwork in regional geology and cartography, as part of the B.S. in Geology, Université Catholique de Louvain.

• Taylor Glacier, Dry Valleys of McMurdo, Antarctica;
  
• Suess Glacier, Dry Valleys of McMurdo, Antarctica;
• Rhone Glacier, Dry Valleys of McMurdo, Antarctica;
• Meserve Glacier, Dry Valleys of McMurdo, Antarctica;
• Wright Lower Glacier, Dry Valleys of McMurdo, Antarctica;
• Victoria Upper Glacier, Dry Valleys of McMurdo, Antarctica;
• Mullins Glacier, Dry Valleys of McMurdo, Antarctica;
• EDML (Epica Dronning Maud Land), Antarctica;
• Epica Berkner Island (EBI), Antarctica;
• Minna Bluff, McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica;
  
• McCall Glacier, Brooks Range, Alaska;
• NGRIP, North Greenland Icecore Project, Greenland;
• Severnaya Zemlya, Akademii Nauk ice cap, Siberian Arctic.
  

• American Geophysical Union, since 2005;
• European Geosciences Union, since 2005;

• 'Debris transport in Glacier', a Working Group of the IUGG Commission for the Cryospheric Sciences [go];
• Belgian Youth Steering Committee (BYSC), as part of the International Youth Steering Committee [go].

• Glaciology; Basal ice; Marine ice; Interface ice;
  
• Antarctica; Dry Valleys; Transantarctic mountains; Cold glaciers; Polar deserts;
  
• Subglacial debris; Thin liquid films; Glaciotectonics; Deformation;
  
• Ice crystallography; Gases; Stable isotopes

• Remy, J.-P. (2006-2008) - "Physical and Geochemical Properties of Marine Ice: Implications for the Stability of Ice Shelves in Antarctica", ULB, PhD thesis (co-promotor & examinator);
• Dierckx, M. (2008) - "Mechanical behaviour of glacier ice in laboratory compression experiments", ULg, master thesis (co-promotor);
• Van Humbeeck, F. (2008) - "Analysis of basal ice from Akademii Nauk ice sheet, Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, Russian Arctic", ULB, master thesis (co-promotor & examinator);
• Carnat, G. (2007) - "Physico-chemical controls on DMS, DMSP and DMSO contents in spring sea ice from Southern Ocean (ARISE Cruise, Casey Station): climatic implications",  ULB, master thesis (examinator);
• Goossens, T. (2007) - "Physico-chemical controls on DMS, DMSP and DMSO contents in spring sea ice from Southern Ocean (ISPOL Cruise, Western Weddell Sea): climatic implications",  ULB, master thesis (examinator);
• Quets, G. (2006) - "Mineralogical and morphoscopical study of particles from basal and amber ice, Dry Valleys (Victoria Land, Antarctique)", ULB, master thesis (co-promotor & examinator);
• Kummert, P. (2006) - "Do rock glaciers from Mullins Valley (Dry Valleys, Antarctica) record a reliable palaeoclimatic signal?", ULB, master thesis (examinator and assistance);
• De Brouwer, G. (2006) - "Do rock glaciers from Mullins Valley (Dry Valleys, Antarctica) record a reliable palaeoclimatic signal?", ULB, master thesis (examinator and assistance);
• Delcourt, C. (2006) - "Alaskan glaciers and climate change", ULB, master thesis (examinator);
• Debecker, F. (2003) - "Basal ice study from a cold Antarctic glacier (Wright Lower Glacier, Victoria Land)", ULB, master thesis (assistance);
• Petit, S. (2003) - "Study of debris-rich ice from a cold Antarctic glacier (Rhone Glacier,  Victoria Land)", ULg, master thesis (assistance).

• Interview about Antarctic subglacial volcanoes for Radio France Internationale, Paris, France, 24 Jan. 2008 [go];
• Kid holiday workshop on polar regions, in collaboration with the Zoology Museum (Muzoo) of the University of Brussels, 26 Dec. 2007 [go];
  
• Interview about polar deserts and global change for Radio France Internationale, Paris, France, 3 Dec. 2007 [go];
• Participation to the glossary on global change from Radio France Internationale ('Greenhouse effect' and 'Wien law' sections), Paris, France, 3 Dec. 2007 [go];
• "Deserts tell the Earth" exhibition, meeting with the public about polar deserts on Earth, Departmental Science Museum of Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, 28 Nov. 2007 [go];
• PASS Poles, organisation of a visit of the Glaciology Lab (ULB) for classes of secondary school (Science for Youth), 28 Nov. 2007 [go];
• Visit of the Glaciology Lab (ULB) by classes from the British School of Brussels, 19 Nov. 2007;
  
• Presentation of the movie "The White Planet" to kids from primary school + discussion on global change, Cultural Centre of Aiseau-Presles, Belgium, 09 Nov. 2007 [go];
  
• Conference on global change: "Future is also played at the Poles", University of Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium, 18 Oct. 2007 [go];
• Interview on the Belgian National Radio (La Une - RTBF) "Tout autre chose" for the Prize of the Belgian Fund for Vocation, 12 June 2007 [go];
• Presentation of D. Guggenheim's movie "The Inconvenient Truth" and mediator in a debate on global warming, invited by Nivelles County, Belgium, 02 May 2007 [go];
• Mediator in a debate on global warming, invited by CRIE of Mouscron, Belgium (for the "Earth Day"), 22 April 2007 [go];
• Blog relating an Antarctic scientific expedition (McMurdo Ice Shelf), Jan. - Feb. 2007 [go];
  
• Printemps des Sciences, organization of public visits of the Glaciology Lab (ULB), 2006 and 2007 events [go];
• Dream Day, introduction to the profession of  Glaciology to classes of secondary school, 20 March 2007 [go];
• Rencontres Jeune Public - Le Parc Cinema, presentation of movies for kids focused on Ecology, Charleroi, Belgium, 01 to 05 Nov. 2006 [go];
• Scientific advisor for several TV spots on Belgian Glaciology (RTBF-JT, Canvas, VRT, KetNet), 2005-2007.

• International Polar Year 2007-2008 - Everything you want to know on this major and worldwide environmental event [go]
• Glaciers online - how glaciers form and behave + numerous impressive glacier pictures [go]
• Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network - The changes of the glaciers in the Swiss Alps measured every year. [go]
  
• Glaciers du Mont-Blanc - the relationships between climate and the state of glaciers on Mont-Blanc [go]
• Flow in polycrystalline ice (University of Melbourne, AUS - School of Earth Sciences) - theory and experiments on deformation of ice crystals [go]
• Glacier scanning (University of Otago, NZ - Dpt of Geography) - an example of glacier "passed through scanner" [go]
• NGRIP (North GReenland Ice Core Project) (University of Copenhagen, D - Dpt of Geophysics) - the official site of the NGRIP deep drilling program in Greenland [go]
• Scott Polar Research Institute (University of Cambridge, UK) - one of the famous european institutes on polar research [go]
• British Antarctic Survey (University of Cambridge, UK) - another famous european institute on polar research [go]
• Kyoto & Climate Change (University of Alberta, C - Dpt of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences) [go]
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - one of THE authoritative sources for statistics and figures on climate change [go]
• Worldwatch Institute - about the complex links between the world economy and the environment [go]
  
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change - dedicated to providing credible information in the effort to address global climate change [go]     
  
• Radio France Internationale Science - quality interviews and short notes on science hotties [go]         
  
• more coming soon...

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• Alpinism and climbing monitor, Belgian Alpine Club, 2006-2008.
• Tree climbing monitor, Belgian Professional Union of Mountaineering Jobs, under way.
• European Red Cross First Aid Certificate (“Brevet Européen de Premiers Secours”), Belgian Red Cross, Brussels, October 2002.
• Belgian Military Flying School, Belgian Air Force, Safraanberg-Goetsenhoven, 1995-1996.                      
  Student Pilot on Marchetti SF-260 (until Solo Flight). Resignation for personal reasons.
• Belgian Air Cadets, Koksijde-Oostmalle-Florennes, 1992-1995.             
  Glider formation on various plane types (K13, K8, Twin Aster, Pegase).
• Sport instructor at A.D.E.P.S., Belgian Sport Policies, Mouscron-Péronnes, 1993-1995.