GEOL

Ongoing Ph. D theses

• Geoarcheological mapping and Middle to Late Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction in the land of Akkad and Sumer. - Vanessa Heyvaert
• Bacterial mediation in the formation of CaCO3 cement: a stable isotope study - Kolo Kamal
• Late Quaternary paleoclimate reconstruction using stable isotope signature on speleothems in Soqotra (Yemen). Pierre De Geest

Recently completed Ph. D theses

• Geochronology and Paleomagnetism of Madeira and the Desertas Islands - Souad Ech-Chakrouni (June 2004)
• Study of recent structural evolution of continental basins in Altai-Sayan - Boris Dehandschutter (Sept. 2001), now at KULeuven, Structural Geology & Tectonics
• Speleothems, as paleoclimatic archives - Sophie Verheyden (May 2001), now at LSCE UMR CEA/CNRS, Saclay, France
• Potentials of stable water isotopes as a natural tracer in the Schelde basin - Koenraad Van den Driessche (April 2001)

Ongoing Masters degree theses

• Reconstruction of paleoenvironmental evolution in the uppermost Cretaceous using stable isotopes, Gubbio, Italy - Kristof Vlaemick (University Ghent)
• Modeling of the salinity changes in the North Atlantic - Serge Rotenberg, (ECOMAMA)
• Isotopic composition of the waters from Chala lake, Kenya - Yuan Yi, (ECOMAMA)

Recently completed Masters degree theses

• Metal adsorption on clays: The case of Zn, Cu, Pb and Cd on the Boom clays in Rumst, Belgium - Ta Truong Thinh (Environmental Science & Technology)
• Metal adsorption on clays: The case of Sr, Cs, Ni and Cd on the Boom clays in Rumst, Belgium - Rob Renarts (Environmental Science & Technology)