BIOMAR - Université Libre de Bruxelles
BIOMAR - Université Libre de Bruxelles
Lab’s research themes
The acidification experiment on the sea urchins is now running rather smoothly. An aquarium system has been set up and the Aquatronica material is doing a very good job for controlling the pH. The first results indicate that Sterechinus neumayeri…
The vERSO team has finally arrived at the Dumont D’Urville station (Terre Adélie, Antarctica), after crossing the Southern Ocean onboard the IPEV’s RV Astrolabe. Here are their first impressions (translated from French): “I’m finally installed at the Dumont d’Urville (DDU) station…
Last week, Philippe Dubois headed South, on an expedition to the Dumont D’Urville station, managed by the french IPEV. Together with Loïc Michel, from the University of Liège, the team will be running ecophysiology experiments and collecting samples for trophic…
A new paper by lead author Angelika Brandt was recently published in Advances in Polar Sciences. The paper addresses the main issues faced in the framework of deep-sea biodiversity monitoring: Despite recent progress in deep-sea biodiversity assessments in the Southern…
Philippe Pernet, from the Marine Biology Lab (ULB) is participating in the 2014 U.S. Antarctic Marine Living Resources (AMLR) Program onboard the RVIB Nathanial Palmer. Find out more in the vERSO project’s expeditions section!
The SCAR Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean has been officially launched at the SCAR Open Science Conference in Auckland, New Zealand. The Marine Biology Lab of the ULB has been heavily involved in the effort, mainly in the edition, data…
This week, we are hosting another workshop to scope out the next steps for the Microbial Antarctic Resources System (mARS) , a followup project from SCAR’s Expert Group on Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics (EG-ABi). The participants include Alison Murray (Desert Research Institute), Anton…
This week, we will be hosting an international workshop to scope out the new dynamic Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean (dBASO), a followup project of SCAR’s Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean. At the end of five years of…
During the last months of 2013, a PhD student of our lab (Quentin Jossart) went to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. This work was done in the laboratory of Dr Harilaos Lessios that has a deal of…
This gallery contains the pictures we extracted from the video transects that we operated in Portman (Spain, 2013). Each picture is a support for a Bay’ species cartography work. Please Do not hesitate to contact me for any question/doubt about our…
