08:30-09:00
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WELCOME COFFEE ‑ REGISTRATION AND POSTER SET-UP
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08:30-09:00
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Registration – Welcome coffee – Setting up of posters
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09:00-09.05
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Welcome and introduction to the programme - Jan Mees (Flanders Marine Institute, VLIZ)
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09:05-10:00
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Ocean Space Exploration: key to our future - Jan Stel (Prof. Dr. Em. ’Ocean Space & Human Activity’)
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10:00-10:50
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10 PITCH PRESENTATIONS
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- Metagenomics@sea: a floating house in a marine environment - De Tender Caroline
- Buried beneath the sea - mapping the prehistoric landscapes of the Belgian Continental Shelf - De Clercq Maikel
- The future of sand extraction in the Dutch part of the North Sea - de Jong Maarten F.
- The combined temperature and nutrient load effects do not explain the development of harmful algal blooms - De Rijcke Maarten
- Why not eat wild mussels? - De Witte Bavo
- Seasonality in concentration, size and settling velocity of muddy marine snow in the southern North Sea and their effects on the the sea bed - Fettweis Michael
- VALDUVIS, a new way of assessing and communicating the sustainability of fishing activities - Kinds Arne
- One wavy day at the beach - Komjani Homayoon
- Marine dinoflagellate cysts as tools in palaeoecology - Mertens Kenneth Neil
- Influences of blubber composition and profile in the assessment of POPs levels in free-ranging cetaceans - Pinzone Marianne
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10:50-11:20
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Coffee/Tea
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11:20-12:10
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10 PITCH PRESENTATIONS
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- Response of morphology and tissue properties of tidal marsh plants to wave activity - Schoutens Ken
- Long-chain hydrocarbon degraders from deep-sea - Scoma Alberto
- Estuarine behaviour of european silver eel (Anguilla anguilla) in the Scheldt Estuary: a slippery path - Verhelst Pieterjan
- The costs of being cosmopolitan: a long term study on the human-dependent population of Lesser Black-backed gulls in Belgium - Sotillo Alejandro
- Do marshes attenuate storm surges? Observations of peak water levels along channelized marsh transects - Stark Jeroen
- Long-term studies make sense: 50 years of beached bird surveys suggest a strong decrease in oil pollution in Belgian marine waters - Stienen Eric
- Competitive interactions between pulse and beam trawlers in the North Sea - Sys Klaas
- Towards a Ship Manoeuvring Model in Shallow Water Waves - Tello Ruiz Ruiz Manases
- Revealing the internal anatomical development of mangrove seedlings using Computed Tomography and microtomy - Tonné Nathalie
- Unraveling the sources of marine microplastics: your daily contribution? - Van Cauwenberghe Lisbeth
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12:10-13:00
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Sandwich lunch
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13:00-17:00
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AFTERNOON PROGRAMME
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13:00-13:05
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Introduction to the afternoon programme - Jan Mees (Flanders Marine Institute, VLIZ)
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13:05-13:30
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5 PITCH PRESENTATIONS
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- Electrical cooperation by cable bacteria has large impact on coastal sediments - van de Velde Sebastiaan
- Genetic structure and variable connectivity in the stony coral Acropora tenuis in Kenya and Tanzania - van der Ven Rosa
- Sediment dynamics in the Belgian coastal zone observed from space - Vanhellemont Quinten
- Exploring the diversity of methane-oxidizing bacteria in marine ecosystems - Vekeman Bram
- Electrifying a Benthos Release Panel to retain sole - Soetaert Maarten
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13:30-13:55
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Looking beyond your microscope: contributing data and information to the global community - Peter Pissierssens (Head, IOC Project Office for IODE & IODE Programme Manager - Coordinator, IOC Capacity Development)
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13:55-14:15
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ELEVATOR PITCH PRESENTATIONS – DEMO’S
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- A guide to funding instruments for marine research and innovation projects – Compendium for Coast and Sea - Pirlet Hans
- Planeetzee@work, how to survive a day of students in your marine lab - Copejans Evy
- EMODnet regional gridded abundance products: a tool to facilitate ecosystem assessments - Claus Simon
- The secret life of gulls revealed with high-tech GPS tags - Stienen Eric
- Improved technology facilitates new scientific opportunities: Implementation of an on-board flow cytometer as part of the LifeWatch marine observatory - Tyberghein Lennert
- The acoustic receiver network: a sea of opportunities - Reubens Jan
- Creation of long term BCP zooplankton data series as part of the LifeWatch marine observatory - Mortelmans Jonas
- The Belgian LifeWatch infrastructure - Dekeyzer Stefanie
- OceanTeacher Global Academy: sharing expertise in a coordinated way - Delgado Claudia (tbc)
- Library@vliz.be: an information ocean at your fingertips - Haspeslagh Jan
- The sea as a good cause - Seys Jan
- Research at the Operational Directorate Natural Environments (RBINS) - Roose Patrick
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14:15-16:30
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- Poster presentations and competition (>80!)
- Meet the Company
- Demonstrations of marine science activities by the VLIZ Marine Data and Information Centre (VMDC) and others
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15:30
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Public votes best oral/best poster presentation
Tick your top three on both forms and turn in the forms by 15:30 at the very latest.
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16:30
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Presentations by the two winners of the ‘VLIZ Thesis Award Marine Sciences 2014’ and by the winner of the ‘VLIZ North Sea Award 2014’
- Habitatbeschikbaarheid voor migrerende vogels in West-Griekenland en Noord-Cyrenaica (Libië)
Evelien Deboelpaep (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Vakgroep Biologie, Laboratorium voor Algemene Plantkunde en Natuurbeheer)
- De maritieme toegankelijkheid tot de haven van Zeebrugge: problematiek, kadering en mogelijke oplossingen
Thibaut Van Zwijnsvoorde (Universiteit Gent, Vakgroep Civiele Techniek)
- How and why the Dutch fished for cod 1818-1911
Christine Rosenørn Overgaard (University of Southern Denmark, Department of History)
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16:50
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Presentation of the awards by Carl Decaluwé, Governor of West-Flanders
- Best oral award (by the public)
- Best poster award (by the public)
- VLIZ North Sea Award 2014
- VLIZ Thesis Awards Marine Sciences 2014
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17:00
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Reception
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