VLIZ Marine Science Day 2018

Book of Abstracts

In the Book of Abstracts (VLIZ Special Publication 81) the abstracts of all participants and winnars of the VLIZ prizes are bundled together. It gives you a nice overview of the current marine research in the Flanders' region.

Photo gallery

All pictures of the VLIZ Marine Science Day 2018 are available in the VLIZ photo gallery.

Twitter

Follow the activity on Twitter: #VMSD18

 

Presentations

Twenty-five contestants (20 pre-doc and 5 post-doc level) were invited to prepare a short pitch presentation (max. 5 minutes) for the plenary session. Video recordings of all plenary talks can be found on the VLIZ YouTube Channel in the playlist VLIZ Marine Science Day 2018. You can also go to the programme-2018 page on this conference website and click on the YouTube logo’s to watch the presentations again.

The other participants could present their work during the poster session. The audience could vote for the best oral and the best scientific poster.

 

  • Top-3 pitch presentations - pre-doc level

1: Willem Stock (UGent-PAE) – The BIO-tide project: The role of microbial biodiversity in the functioning of marine tidal flat sediments (no audio)

2: Glenn Strypsteen (KU Leuven-BWK) – Dynamic sand: Towards a resilient Belgian coast

3: Vincent Gruwez (UGent-AWW) – Towards an improved numerical modelling methodology for wave overtopping on a dike with a very shallow foreshore

 

  • Winning pitch presentation - post-doc level

1: Nina Dehnhard (UA-Biology) – Foraging distribution, habitat preferences and diet of Antarctic petrels, cape petrels and southern fulmars – Inter-specific overlap as a consequence of high environmental variability?

 

  • Winning scientific poster

1: Van Nieuwenhove Annelore H.M. (VUB-Marine Biology) – Genetic population structure and connectivity of the big blue octopus, Octopus cyanea (Gray, 1849), in the Western Indian Ocean PDF Icon

Other posters, if delivered to us, are made available as pdf in the Open Marien Archive (OMA). 

 

  •  Keynote spreakers

Veerle Huvenne (NOC, United Kingdom) – Towards a better understanding of our marine environment: of habitats, maps and engineering

Jan Mees & Michiel Vandegehuchte (VLIZ) – The VLIZ Research Framework and the Science Agenda for Flanders

 

Meet de Company

The companies that were present during Meet the Company 2018:

Read more about the marine companies that were present at this third edition of the Meet the Company event.

 

VLIZ Scientific Awards

  • North Sea Award 2017

M. Anouk Goedknegt (NIOZ, The Netherlands) – Pacific oysters and parasites: Species invasions and their impact on parasite-host interactions

[Read more how to participate yourself]

  • VLIZ Thesis Award for Marine Sciences 2017

Emily Lodewijks (UGent-GhEnToxLab) – Potential human health effects of phycotoxins in marine bioaerosols

Michiel Dekoninck (UGent-ARCHAEO) – Roman salt production in the civitas Menapiorum: A study of the implemented technological process on the salt production sites through the analysis of the briquetage from the region Zeebrugge-Dudzele

[Read more how to participate yourself]

  • VLIZ Brilliant Research Ideas 2016

Laurine Burdorf (VUB, Chemistry Department) – Who are the cable bacteria?

Franz Maximilian Heindler (KU Leuven, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics) – Refugia of Antarctic Icefish

Raf Meskens (Antwerp Maritime Academy) – A dynamic testing platform for anti-fouling coatings

Emmanuel Van Acker (UGent, Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic Ecology) – Do marine aerosols improve human health? - An exploratory "holistic" approach

  • VLIZ Brilliant Research Ideas 2017

Marieke Paepen (UGent - Hydrogeology and applied geology lab) – Delineating the area where submarine groundwater discharge occurs in the Belgian coastal area

Sebastiaan van de Velde (VUB - Analytical, Environmental and Geochemistry) – Counteracting anthropogenic CO2 emissions by microbial stimulation of silicate weathering

[Read more how to participate yourself]

  • VLIZ Communication Award 2017

Maikel De Clercq (UGent, Department of Geology) – The value of archaeological potential mapping for the offshore industry - animation in English and Dutch

  • VLIZ Communication Award 2018

Maaike Vercauteren – Skin ulcerations in wild flatfish: A mystery to be resolved

 

See you again next year for a new edition! Keep an eye on the announcements for the submission of abstracts (autumn 2018).