English name: Research pole Environmental Sciences
Parent institute: Université Catholique de Louvain; Earth and Life Institute (UCL-ELI), more
Address: Place Croix du Sud
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
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Type: Scientific
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1 Director: Head of the department 2 Marine scientist: Works in this research group and acts as (co-)author in at least one marine publication in the last 5 years. 3 Specialized personnel: Provides administrative or technical support to marine scientific research.
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- Université Catholique de Louvain; Earth and Life Institute; Sciences de l'Environnement; SLIM (UCL), more
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The Environmental Sciences branch of the Earth and Life Institute of the Université Catholique de Louvain was founded in 2008 and is strongly linked with and originates from the Applied Mechanics unit (MEMA) which is part of the same university (Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (IMMC)). The research conducted by this group ranges from fundamental to applied research which relates to numerous societal concerns such as water and soil pollution, management of forests and nature reserves, functional ecology, soil erosion, land use, carbon and water cycle, the effect of climate change on biogeochemical cycles, etc. A key event during the existence of this group is the organisation of the ‘8th International Workshop on Unstructured Mesh Numerical Modeling of Coastal, Shelf and Ocean Flows’, held in September 2009.
Marine topics studied by the Environmental Sciences group include:
- Ocean and sea currents by means of models (e.g. the SLIM model);
- The biogeochemical cycle of iron in the ocean.
In the future this group foresees a landward shift in their research in order to develop a multi-scale model of the land - sea continuum. The intention is to model the water cycle and the dynamics of biogeochemical tracers from land towards the sea. Such a model will allow to explicitly model the impact of land-based human activities on marine ecosystems. |
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Goosse, H.; Contador, S.A.; Bitz, C.M.; Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E.; Eayrs, C.; Fichefet, T.; Himmich, K.; Huot, P.-V.; Klein, F.; Marchi, S.; Massonnet, F.; Mezzina, B.; Pelletier, C.; Roach, L.; Vancoppenolle, M.; van Lipzig, N.P.M. (2023). Modulation of the seasonal cycle of the Antarctic sea ice extent by sea iceprocesses and feedbacks with the ocean and the atmosphere. Cryosphere 17(1): 407-425. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-407-2023, more
Lin, X.; Massonnet, F.; Fichefet, T.; Vancoppenolle, M. (2023). Impact of atmospheric forcing uncertainties on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice simulations in CMIP6 OMIP models. Cryosphere 17(5): 1935-1965. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1935-2023, more
André, L.; Monin, L.; Hofmann, A. (2022). The origin of early continental crust: new clues from coupling Ge/Si ratios with silicon isotopes. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 582: 117415. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117415, more
Geisen, C.; Ridame, C.; Journet, E.; Delmelle, P.; Marie, D.; Lo Monaco, C.; Metzl, N.; Ammar, R.; Kombo, J.; Cardinal, D. (2022). Phytoplanktonic response to simulated volcanic and desert dust deposition events in the South Indian and Southern Oceans. Limnol. Oceanogr. 67(7): 1537-1553. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.12100, more
Steele, M.; Eicken, H.; Bhatt, U.; Bieniek, K.P.; Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E.; Wiggins, H.; Turner-Bogren, B.; Hamilton, L.; Little, J.; Massonnet, F.; Meier, W.N.; Overland, J.; Serreze, M.; Stroeve, J.; Walsh, J.; Wang, M.Y. (2021). Moving sea ice prediction forward via community intercomparison. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 102(12): E2226-E2228. https://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0159.1, more
Blockley, E.; Vancoppenolle, M.; Hunke, E.; Bitz, C.; Feltham, D.; Lemieux, J.-F.; Losch, M.; Maisonnave, E.; Notz, D.; Rampal, P.; Tietsche, S.; Tremblay, B.; Turner, A.; Massonnet, F.; Olason, E.; Roberts, A.; Aksenov, Y.; Fichefet, T.; Garric, G.; Lovino, D.; Madec, G.; Rousset, C.; Melia, D.S.; Schroeder, D. (2020). The future of sea ice modeling: where do we go from here? Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 101(8): E1304-E1311. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0073.1, more
Bogaert, P.; Montreuil, A.-L.; Chen, M. (2020). Predicting morphodynamics for beach intertidal systems in the North Sea: a space-time stochastic approach. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 8(11): 901. https://hdl.handle.net/10.3390/jmse8110901, more
Ho, L.; Alonso, A.; Eurie Forio, M.A.; Vanclooster, M.; Goethals, P.L.M. (2020). Water research in support of the Sustainable Development Goal 6: a case study in Belgium. J. Clean. Prod. 277: 124082. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124082, more
Colombier, M.; Mueller, S.B.; Kueppers, U.; Scheu, B.; Delmelle, P.; Cimarelli, C.; Cronin, S.J.; Brown, R.J.; Tost, M.; Dingwell, D.B. (2019). Diversity of soluble salt concentrations on volcanic ash aggregates from a variety of eruption types and deposits. Bulletin of Volcanology 81(7): 39. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00445-019-1302-0, more
Docquier, D.; Grist, J.P.; Roberts, M.J.; Roberts, C.D.; Semmler, T.; Ponsoni, L.; Massonnet, F.; Sidorenko, D.; Sein, D.V.; Iovino, D.; Bellucci, A.; Fichefet, T. (2019). Impact of model resolution on Arctic sea ice and North Atlantic Ocean heat transport. Clim. Dyn. 53(7-8): 4989-5017. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04840-y, more
Hatton, J.E.; Hendry, K.R.; Hawkings, J.R.; Wadham, J.L.; Opfergelt, S.; Kohler, T.J.; Yde, J.C.; Stibal, M.; Žárský, J.D. (2019). Silicon isotopes in Arctic and sub-Arctic glacial meltwaters: the role of subglacial weathering in the silicon cycle. Proc. - Royal Soc., Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 475(2228): 20190098. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2019.0098, more
Lebrun, M.; Vancoppenolle, M.; Madec, G.; Massonnet, F. (2019). Arctic sea-ice-free season projected to extend into autumn. Cryosphere 13(1): 79-96. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-79-2019, more
Montreuil, A.-L.; Chen, M.; Esquerré, A.; Houthuys, R.; Moelans, R.; Bogaert, P. (2019). Pre- and post-storm LiDAR surveys for assessment of impact on coastal erosion. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 42-3(W8): 261-266. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-W8-261-2019, more
Uotila, P.; Goosse, H.; Haines, K.; Chevallier, M.; Barthélemy, A.; Bricaud, C.; Carton, J.; Fuckar, N.; Garric, G.; Iovino, D.; Kauker, F.; Korhonen, M.; Lien, V.S.; Marnela, M.; Mignac, D.; Peterson, K.A.; Sadikni, R.; Shi, L.; Tietsche, S.; Toyoda, T.; Xie, J.; Zhang, Z. (2019). An assessment of ten ocean reanalyses in the polar regions. Clim. Dyn. 52(3-4): 1613-1650. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4242-z, more
Goosse, H.; Kay, J.E.; Armour, K.C.; Bodas-Salcedo, A.; Chepfer, H.; Docquier, D.; Jonko, A.; Kushner, P.J.; Lecomte, O.; Massonnet, F.; Park, H.-S.; Pithan, F.; Svensson, G.; Vancoppenolle, M. (2018). Quantifying climate feedbacks in polar regions. Nature Comm. 9(1): 13 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04173-0, more
Lamarche, C.; Santoro, M.; Bontemps, S.; d'Andrimont, R.; Radoux, J.; Giustarini, L.; Brockmann, C.; Wevers, J.; Defourny, P.; Arino, O. (2017). Compilation and validation of SAR and optical data products for a complete and global map of inland/ocean water tailored to the climate modeling community. Remote Sens. 9(1): 20 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs9010036, more
Maters, E.C.; Delmelle, P.; Gunnlaugsson, H.P. (2017). Controls on iron mobilisation from volcanic ash at low pH: insights from dissolution experiments and Mossbauer spectroscopy. Chem. Geol. 449: 73-81. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.11.036, more
Michiels, C.C.; Darchambeau, F.; Roland, F.A.E.; Morana, C.; Llirós, M.; García-Armisen, T.; Thamdrup, B.; Borges, A.V.; Canfield, D.E.; Servais, P.; Descy, J.-P.; Crowe, S.A. (2017). Iron-dependent nitrogen cycling in a ferruginous lake and the nutrient status of Proterozoic oceans. Nature Geoscience 10(3): 217-221. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2886, more
Delvigne, C.; Opfergelt, S.; Cardinal, D.; Hofmann, A.; André, L. (2016). Desilication in Archean weathering processes traced by silicon isotopes and Ge/Si ratios. Chem. Geol. 420: 139-147. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.11.007, more
Maters, E.C.; Delmelle, P.; Bonneville, S. (2016). Atmospheric processing of volcanic glass: effects on iron solubility and redox speciation. Environ. Sci. Technol. 50(10): 5033-5040. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5b06281, more
De Maet, T.; Hanert, E.; Deleersnijder, E.; Fichefet, T.; Legat, V.; Remacle, J.-F.; Soares Frazao, S.; Vanclooster, M.; Lambrechts, J.; König Beatty, S.; Bouillon, S.; de Brye, B.; Gourgue, O.; Kärnä, T.; Lietaer, O.; Pestiaux, A.; Slaoui, K.; Thomas, C. (2012). SLIM: a multi-scale model of the land-sea continuum. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 14(EGU2012-9603-1), more
Opfergelt, S.; Delmelle, P. (2012). Silicon isotopes and continental weathering processes: assessing controls on Si transfer to the ocean. C. r. Géosci. 344(11-12): 723-738. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2012.09.006, more
Alonso, A.; Sbaa, M.; Vanclooster, M. (2011). Assessing water quality and pollution origin of the Bou-Areg aquifer (north east Morocco). Geophys. Res. Abstr. 13: EGU2011-6070, more
Cornelis, J.-T.; Delvaux, B.; Georg, B.; Lucas, Y.; Ranger, J.; Opfergelt, S. (2011). Tracing the origin of dissolved silicon transferred from various soil-plant systems towards rivers: a review. Biogeosciences 8(1): 89-112. dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-8-89-2011, more
Goor, Q.; Halleux, C.; Mohamed, Y.; Tilmant, A. (2010). Optimal operation of a multipurpose multireservoir system in the Eastern Nile River Basin. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 14(10): 1895-1908. dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-14-1895-2010, more
- Goosse, H.; Contador, S.A.; Bitz, C.M.; Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E.; Eayrs, C.; Fichefet, T.; Himmich, K.; Huot, P.-V.; Klein, F.; Marchi, S.; Massonnet, F.; Mezzina, B.; Pelletier, C.; Roach, L.; Vancoppenolle, M.; van Lipzig, N.P.M. (2023). Importance of atmospheric feedbacks in simulating the seasonal cycle of the Antarctic sea ice and its response to perturbations, in: EGU General Assembly 2023. Vienna, Austria & Online, 23–28 April 2023. pp. EGU23-1531. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-1531, more
- Randresihaja, R.; Grégoire, M.; Hanert, E. (2023). Understanding the biogeochemical interactions of the Scheldt-North Sea river-ocean-continuum through multiscale modelling, in: Mees, J. et al. Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day, 1 March 2023, Bruges. VLIZ Special Publication, 90: pp. 95, more
- De Maet, T. (2011). An explicit Discontinuous-Galerkin surface-subsurface water flow model, in: Hogge, M. et al. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advanced COmputational Methods in ENgineering (ACOMEN 2011), 14-17 November 2011, Liège, Belgium. pp. 11 pp., more
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