Curv general12-05

2012

10th Anniversary of the International Polar Foundation. Bruxelles

2013

18 April-7 May 2013. Field work in the western USA deserts to compare them with the Chinese deserts and loess formation. The work is related to the monsoon of MIS-13 as revealed by the loess in the N-W Chinese deserts. To better understand the transfert function from loess to monsoon, we compare the deserts of China to the deserts of USA which are the same latitudes but not placed underthe influence of monsoon, although in many places the term monsoon is used for designating the summer precipitation over some deserts of western USA. In the Mesa Verde region, they even speak about soils formed from dust originating from the neighbourhood desert and about loess, similarly to the loess plateau in NW China.

2014

Palaeoecology, the past as the key for the future, symposium and Afscheidscollege The Tropen in een ijsteijd. 31 January 2014, Faculkteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde and Informatica, Universiteit vab Amsterdam, Science Park, Amsterdam

50^th Anniversary of the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. Palace of the Royal Belgian Academy, 25 November 2015.
2016

12^th International Confernce on Paleoceanography, Utrecht. Session 1: Time scale andrate of change, Session 2: Paleo proxies, Session 3: Biogeochemical cycles, Session 4: System Dynamics, Session 5 Reconstructing the future. 28 August to 2 September 2016.

Journée mondiale des Sciences. 350ème anniversaire de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris. Représentant l’Académie Royale de Belgique. 27 sepembre 2016.