http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/photogallery/index.php Sat, 25 May 2013 09:07:01 +0000 nl-be http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/photogallery/index.php?album=2548&pic=49090&from=rss http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/photogallery/index.php?album=2548&pic=49090 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:31:41 +0000 Clips: invited speakers 2012 2012.02.24 Jongerencontactdag VIDEO

I am Mike Moore from the European Center for Environmental Human health, which is part of the Peninsula Medical School in England and also from Plymouth Marine Laboratory. I am here today as the invited keynote speaker talking about “Oceans and Human Health”. In this capacity I am the chairman of a working group on “Oceans and Human Health” for the European Science Foundation’s Marine Board. They have tasked us with producing a position paper which will include recommendation to the European Union’s Science directorate on the development of a future program on “Oceans and Human Health”. I was very impressed with the talks I heard - very high standard - and also with the poster presentations. It is very good to see the wide range of activities the people are engaged in, very many of them involved in interdisciplinary research. Many of them also are involved in aspects that are potentially important contributors to the area in which I and my colleagues are concerned with; in other words to the marine environment and human health. Both the benefits that comes from the marine environment like food as fish and other seafood or the health benefits of living near the marine environment, … As well as the potential threats like pollution by chemicals, and harmful organisms such as bacteria and viruses. Many of today’s talks were related to this. Also there was one in particular that was looking at networking processes, dealing with the application of social networks to ecosystems. This is exactly the sort of thing that needs to be developed in the area of science that I am involved in. Overall, I had a great day! I find the science fascinating and the enthusiasm of the young scientists that I was talking to has been terrific. I am taking great pleasure in being here and having been invited. ]]> http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/photogallery/index.php?album=2548&pic=49088&from=rss http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/photogallery/index.php?album=2548&pic=49088 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:18:48 +0000 Clips: invited speakers 2012 2012.02.24 Jongerencontactdag VIDEO

I am Jean Berlamont, professor at the Laboratory of Hydraulics of the University of Leuven. I am a civil engineer by profession. I was at the VLIZ Young Marine Scientist Day before, although it has been a couple of years. I am impressed by the quality of the presentations and about the quality of the scientific work that is going on. There is a good future for marine sciences in Belgium. My message to the young scientists is twofold: First, as everybody is working in his own, narrow field it is very important to look wider and have contacts with people from related fields, in order to reach relevant scientific results. This might be one of the reasons to remain the VLIZ Young Marine Scientists Days. My second message is that (especially young) scientists have a certain amount of self-criticism; so that they look at a critical way to the results that comes out of the measurement or computer model. Reflect on it and formulate a critical opinion about it. ]]>