Research
Belgian researchers - Cryosphere
Verbeke Véronique
PhD researcher
Certificates
1999 - 2001 : DEA ("Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies")
in Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.)
1998 - 1999 : Teacher training certificate (“Agrégation
de l’Enseignement secondaire superieur”) at the Université Libre
de Bruxelles (U.L.B.).
1995 - 1999 : Geographical Science Degree (equivalent of Master)
in the Université Libre de Bruxelles, completed with the
highest grade ('La Plus Grande Distinction').
Final year project carried out in the laboratory of Glaciology
at the U.L.B. (Department of Earth Science and Environment),
with the "Study of the 3-D chlorinity/salinity distribution
patterns in experimental granular sea ice" as subject.
Other formations
2000 : Scientific English (Institut des Langues Vivantes et de
Phonétique – U.L.B. – 30h)
1999 : European Red Cross Practical First Aid Certificate
(“Brevet
Européen de Premiers Secours” – Belgian
Red Cross)
Career
Since 1st October 1999: Assistant at the Department of Geography,
Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Ph.D. (“Doctorat”) in the laboratory of Glaciology
at the U.L.B., with the "Gas properties and trace elements
in Antarctic sea ice" as subject.
Activities
- Research programme:
- SPSD II: Antarctica V
- Research group: Glaciology lab-ULB
- Research projects:
- dev.ulb.ac.be/glaciol/team/verbeke-projects.htm
- AMICS - Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics and climatic change: modelling and ice composition study
- INTERICE - Inter disciplinary Ice tank Experiment
- SIBClim - Sea Ice Biogeochemistry in a CLimate change perspective
- Basal Ice at Lake Vostok
Related activities
Field experience
- January 2003:16 days in the McMurdo Sound (Scott Base - Antarctica) for sea ice coring.
- May 2001: 7 days in Hamburg (Germany) for the “Interice III” European project. Study of sea ice growth processes and properties in experimental ship basin: relationship with biological processes, in collaboration with the Alfred Wegener Institute für Meeresche und Polarforschüng (Germany), University of Bangor (Wales) and HSVA (Hamburg Ship Model Basin).
- January 2000: 8 days in the Dry valleys (Terra Victoria - Antarctica) for lake ice coring, with glaciologists from New Zealand (Dunedin University)
- August 1999: 4 days on the Glacier de Tsanfleuron (Switzerland) for testing ice coring material
- August 1998: two weeks on the Haut glacier d'Arolla (Switzerland) as field training assistant, with glaciologists from the universities of Aberystwith, Cambridge and Glasgow.
Symposia
- 19-23 august 2001 : International glaciological society symposium “Ice cores and Climate” held in Kangerlussuaq (Greenland) : oral presentation : “New insight on the deformation history of basal ice from the Dye 3 core, Greenland”.
- 19-23 June 2000: International Glaciological Society Symposium "Sea ice and its interactions with the ocean, atmosphere and biosphere" held in Fairbanks (Alaska) : presentation of a poster based on my final year project.
List of publications
Contact
Verbeke Véronique
Glaciology Lab
Campus du Solbosch
ULB CP160/03
avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50 -
1050 Bruxelles
vverbeke@ulb.ac.be
Phone +32-2-650.22.14 -
Fax +32-2-650.22.26