Camille is off to the ACE Expedition
This season 2017, Camille Moreau, PhD student at the Universities of Brussels (ULB) and Dijon, is joining a major Swiss-led research expedition circum-navigating the Antarctic: the ACE (Antarctic...
View ArticleHot off the press: biogeography of Southern Ocean sea stars
Our paper on the biogeography of Southern Ocean sea stars is out in Journal of Biogeography: Reproductive strategy as a piece of the biogeographic puzzle: a case study using Antarctic sea stars...
View ArticleThe RAATD workshop
This week, Bruno Danis is attending the fourth RAATD workshop, hosted at the CESAB (Center for Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity), in Aix-en-Provence. 10 participants from 7 countries are...
View ArticleFind us at the #SCARbio17 symposium
The Marine Biology Lab is making a significant contribution to the SCAR biology symposium, which is taking place in Leuven, Belgium between 10-14th of July 2017. Bruno Danis is co-chairing the Local...
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New Publication: A Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) model to describe Laternula...
A new research work from vERSO and RECTO projects has just been published at PlosOne. This work is part of the effort at BIOMAR (biomar.ulb.ac.be) to gain insight and understanding in the physiological...
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Visiting the end of the world
It is delighted that a team of three, formed by Bruno Danis (ULB), Thomas Saucède (UBFC, France) and Camille Moreau (ULB / UBFC) was invited by Elie Poulin (U. Chile) to visit Chile as part of the Red...
View ArticleLaunch of the Belgica 121 crowdfunding campaign!
Marking the 121st anniversary since the first Antarctic expedition in human history, an international team of nine scientists embarks on a journey to the frozen continent. Our choice of transport: a...
View ArticleNew GBIF dataset published
In the framework of the marine biology field work organised by the lab, we will be publishing raw biodiversity data on a yearly basis on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This...
View ArticleHot off the press: new paper by Antonio Agüera
A new paper was published in MEPS by Antonio Agüera. the article focuses on the crown-of-thorns sea star. The paper is available in open access. Here’s the abstract: The crown-of-thorns starfish...
View ArticleNew SDM paper out!
A new research paper by Charlène Guillaumot et al. “Broad-scale species distribution models applied to data-poor areas” has just been published in Progress in Oceanography. The paper specifically...
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Black corals from the mesophotic waters of French Polynesia – or – How to be...
Let me ask you: what does first come to your mind when thinking about French Polynesia? Pristine white sandy beaches, luxurious island landscapes, turquoise waters, tropical fruits and fancy colourful...
View ArticleNew ecoregionalization paper published
A new paper on benthic ecoregionalization of the Southern Ocean has just been published in Global Change Biology, by Salomé Fabri-Ruiz et al. The Southern Ocean (SO) is among the regions on Earth that...
View ArticleTracking paper published in Nature
The Marine Biology Lab (Bruno Danis) was involved in a publication of in Nature in March 2020. Bruno Danis was a member of the data processing and analyzing team and participated in the drafting of...
View ArticleWe’re hiring!
In the framework of the collaborative FED-tWIN research programme between Belgian federal institutes and universities by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO), the Project SO-BOMP...
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New paper on the diversity of Pterasteridae
A new article by Quentin Jossart et al. has just been published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Our paper uses an integrative approach in discriminating species, for taxa...
View ArticleNew publication: the asteroid species of Lamarck (Jangoux 2021)
Zoologist Péron and artist Lesueur, both members of the scientific staff of the Baudin expedition to the Southern Lands (September 1800-March 1804), collected during their voyage 36 different species...
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Fieldwork to Gran Canaria (ULPGC, ECOAQUA Lab.)
For the last field mission of my PhD thesis (Year 4, serious things to come!), I was lucky enough to travel to Gran Canaria to join a great team led by Dr Francisco Otero-Ferrer from the Parque...
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Fieldwork in a French Polynesian atoll – TROPHIC project
Tetiaroa’s lagoon. © Emma Paul Costesec A PhD is full of surprises and one of the firsts for me was to travel to the other side of the world, to French Polynesia, and more specifically to Tetiaroa,...
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CoP19 through the eyes of a student
Events as Conferences of Parties (CoP) are as important as they are unknown for most people. Everyone has heard of them but only a few know what it is, how it works and what is clearly discussed...
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TANGO expedition is on the GO!
Three members of the BIOMAR, Lea Katz, Camille Moreau and Bruno Danis are now getting ready for a new expedition to the Southern Ocean, onboard a sailboat, the RV Australis (skipped by Ben Wallis,...
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