VLIZ YOUNG SCIENTISTS' DAY
Friday, 02 March 2007
Provinciehuis Boeverbos (Brugge)
08:30
Welcome coffee & registration
Foyer (1st floor)
Mounting of posters
Ground floor
09:00
Official welcome
09.05
Visions on the hidden face of the Earth: perspective of the explorer - objective of the
coach
Jan Mees
Council chamber
Council chamber
Jean-Pierre Henriet
10:00
Floating seaweed as a vector for traveling organisms
Council chamber
10:25
Hydraulic design of coastal structures: inventing the world on a small scale
Council chamber
Sofie Vandendriessche
Marc Willems
10:50
Coffee break
Foyer (1st floor)
11:20
Occurrence of hormones in the Scheldt Estuary: an analytical challenge!
Council chamber
11:45
From data to quota in fisheries research
Council chamber
12:10
Lunch
Foyer (1st floor)
13:00
Introduction to the afternoon programme and presentation of 'Navigating the Future III'
Council chamber
13:10
Signals and scenarios of climate change in European seas
Herlinde Noppe
Wim Demaré
Jan Mees
Council chamber
Katja Philippart
13:50
14:00
15:45
Presentation of the Marine Board-ESF Position Paper ‘Climate Change Impacts on the
European Marine and Coastal Environment’ to Koen Verlaeckt, Head of Cabinet
Science and Innovation of Fientje Moerman, Vice-Minister-President of the Flemish
Government and Flemish Minister of Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation and
Foreign Trade
Poster presentations and competition
Demonstrations of marine science activities by the Flanders Marine Data and
Information Centre (VMDC) and others
Photo contest
Presentations by the two winners of the ‘VLIZ Thesis Award Marine Sciences 2006’ and
by the winner of the ‘VLIZ North Sea Award 2006’
Cryptic genetic diversity in the genus Mesopodopsis (Crustacea, Mysidacea)
Council chamber
Ground floor
Council chamber
Katrien Broekaert
Generation of irregular long and short crested waves in a numerical model for wave
propagation: implementation, validation and application
Robby Caspeele
Living with gulls – Trading of food and predation in the Sandwich Tern Sterna
sandvicensis
Eric Stienen
16:25
Presentation of the awards, including awards for the best posters and winners of the
photo contest
Council chamber
16:45
Reception
Ground floor