Institute record of Laboratoire de Glaciologie

Information

Type
Organization
Type
https://marineinfo.org/ns/institutes/types#Scientific
Name
Laboratoire de Glaciologie
Name
Laboratoire de Glaciologie@en
Acronym
ULB
Parent institute
Université Libre de Bruxelles; Faculté des Sciences; Département Géosciences, Environnement et Société
Address
Campus du Solbosch, Bât. D niv. 4, CP 160/03, Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Contact numbers
Telephone
+32-(0)2-650 22 27
Email
glaciol@ulb.ac.be
Location
latitude
50.8235717
longitude
4.3766927
Description @en
The Glaciology unit focuses on the study of glaciers and ice caps and their relationship with the climate system. The laboratory has expertise in the development of numerical ice cap models. Validation of these models is performed using land and airborne geophysics, including radio-echo sounding. The field work concentrates on polythermal glaciers and Antarctica. The group also focuses on properties of ice, such as the physicochemical properties of 'interface ice' (ice - bedrock; ice - ocean; ice - atmosphere). This expertise is based on polar expeditions and on the development of analytical techniques for the multiparametric study of ice rich in solid or liquid impurities. The marine component of the research is related to the study of the dynamics of calving ice caps and the contribution of their melting to the sea level rise. Furthermore, the unit also investigates biogeochemical cycles in sea ice and polar oceans (interaction with atmosphere). The research group has several publications in the renowned journal 'Nature' and was involved in several national and international marine projects such as the Ice2sea project (to assess the contribution of continental ice to the rising sea level) and the SIBClim project, which focuses on how ice in polar seas influences the Earth's climate.
Description @nl
Het laboratoire de Glaciologie focust zich op de studie van gletsjers en ijskappen en hun relatie met het klimaat. Het laboratorium heeft expertise in de ontwikkeling van numerieke ijskapmodellen. Validatie van deze modellen wordt uitgevoerd met behulp van geofysica over land en in de lucht, inclusief radio-echo techniek. Het veldwerk concentreert zich op polythermische gletsjers en Antarctica. De groep legt zich ook toe op de eigenschappen van ijs, zoals de fysico-chemische eigenschappen van 'interface-ijs' (ijs - gesteente; ijs - oceaan; ijs - atmosfeer). Deze expertise is gebaseerd op poolexpedities en op de ontwikkeling van analysetechnieken voor de multiparametrische studie van ijs dat rijk is aan vaste of vloeibare onzuiverheden. De mariene component van het onderzoek is gerelateerd aan de studie van de dynamiek van afkalvende ijskappen en de bijdrage van het smelten van ijskappen aan de zeespiegelstijging. Daarnaast onderzoekt de eenheid ook biogeochemische cycli in zee-ijs en poolzeeën (interactie met de atmosfeer). De onderzoeksgroep heeft verschillende publicaties in het gerenommeerde tijdschrift 'Nature' en was betrokken bij diverse nationale en internationale maritieme projecten zoals het Ice2sea-project (om de bijdrage van continentaal ijs aan de zeespiegelstijging te beoordelen) en het SIBClim-project, dat zich richt op de invloed van poolijs op het klimaat op aarde.

Members

Frank Pattyn
role: Professor
Jean-Louis Tison
role: Professor - Head of unit
Lisa Ardoin
Violaine Coulon
Saïda El Amri
role: Technician
François Fripiat
Elise Kazmierczak
Claire Lelouchier
role: Secretary
Sarah Wauthy
Lars Zipf

Past members

Sophie Berger
Pierre-Henri Blard
Thierry Boereboom
role: Teaching Assistant
Frédéric Brabant
Denis Callens
Gauthier Carnat
Odile Crabeck
Charlotte Delcourt
role: Researcher
Mathieu Depoorter
Marie Dierckx
David Docquier
Reinhard Drews
Lionel Favier
Karen Fjøsne
Quentin Glaude
Thomas Goossens
Thomas Hartley
Konstanze Haubner
Mana Inoue
Caroline Jacques
Ala Khazendar
Marie Kotovich
Réginald Lorrain
role: Professor
Ceri Middleton
Faezeh Nick
Carlos Olmos
role: PhD student
Laura Perichon
Morgane Philippe
Jean-Philippe Remy
role: PhD Student FRIA
Denis Samyn
role: Post-doc
Célia Sapart
Véronique Schoemann
role: Postdoctoral researcher
Suzanne Sleewagen
Roland Souchez
role: Professor
Sainan Sun
Nicolas Thonnard
Fanny Van der Linden
Brice Van Liefferinge
Véronique Verbeke
Emmanuel Witrant
Boris Wittek
Jiayun Zhou

Expertise

Chemical oceanography
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 1489
Climate change
defined term set: MOG Topics
term code: 181490
Climatology
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 1598
Geochemistry
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 3602
Geochemistry
defined term set: MOG Topics
term code: 181498
Geophysics
defined term set: MOG Topics
term code: 181500
Glacial geology
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 3719
Glacier ice
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 3726
Ice caps
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 4174
Ice-water interface
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 4217
Isotopes
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 4508
Physical oceanography
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 6187
Sea ice
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 9760
Water circulating systems
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 9087
geographic terms
Antarctica
Greenland

Special collections

ENCORA
ENCORA: BENCORE
Marine expertise
Marine expertise: Speciality: Fysical oceanography
Marine expertise: Type: French speaking university

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date created: 2003-11-26
date modified: 2014-04-18