The abstracts of all participants and award winners can be found in the Book of Abstracts. It gives you a nice overview of the current marine research in Flanders and surroundings.
Twenty-five contestants were invited to prepare a short pitch presentation (max. 5 minutes) for the plenary session. The others could present their work during the poster session. The audience could vote the best oral and the best scientific poster.
Top-3 pitch presentations:
1: Kim Sys - VALDUVIS, a new way of assessing and communicating the sustainability of fishing activities [pitch presentation:
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2: Lisbeth Van Cauwenberghe - Unraveling the sources of marine microplastics: your daily contribution? [pitch presentation:]
3: Caroline De Tender - Metagenomics@sea: a floating house in a marine environment [pitch presentation:]
Top-3 scientific posters:
1: Buitrago Carol, Rosa Maria van der Ven and Marc Kochzius - Genetic diversity and connectivity of Seriatopora hystrix along the East Coast of Africa []
2: Stock Willem, Frederik De Boever, Anne Willems, Sven Mangelinckx, Marleen De Troch, Wim Vyverman and Koen Sabbe - Favouritism and secret crosstalk in diatom-bacteria relations []
3: Bekaert Karen, Lisa Devriese, Sofie Vandendriessche, Els Vanderperren - Use of and potential biodegradable alternatives for dolly rope, a.k.a “spekking”, in Belgian fisheries []
All other posters that were delivered to us, are made available via the Open Marien Archive (OMA).
Keynote speakers:
Jan Stel (Prof. Dr. Em. ’Ocean Space & Human Activity’) - Ocean Space Exploration: key to our future
Pissierssens Peter (Head, IOC Project Office for IODE & IODE Programme Manager - Coordinator, IOC Capacity Development) - Looking beyond your microscope: contributing data and information to the global community []
Meet the company:
The companies that were present during Meet the Company 2015:
- DEME - www.deme-group.com
- eCoast - www.ecoast.be
- Flanders' Maritime Cluster - www.flanders-maritime-cluster.be
- G-tec - www.g-tec.eu
- IMDC - www.imdc.be
- Jan De Nul - www.jandenul.com
- Witte Raven - www.witte-raven.be
North Sea Award 2014:
Christine Rosenørn Overgaard (University of Southern Denmark - Department of History) - How and why the Dutch fished for cod 1818-1911
VLIZ Thesis Award for Marine Sciences 2014:
Evelien Deboelpaep (VUB - Plant Biology and Nature Management): 'Habitat availability for migratory birds in western Greece & northern Cyrenaica (Libya)' [M.Sc. scriptie:]
Thibaut Van Zwijnsvoorde (UGent - Civil Engineering Department): 'Hydrodynamics study on various design scenarios, using a physical scale model, to improve the maritime access of the port of Zeebrugge' [M.Sc. scriptie:]
VLIZ Communication Award 2015:
Jan Trachet (UGent - Historical Archaeology Research Group): Medieval Bruges and its outer ports. A landscape archaeological contribution to the Zwin-debate.
All award winners at the Young Marine Scientists' Day 2015.
More pictures of the Young Marine Scientists' Day 2015 are available in the VLIZ photo gallery.