cv_liste complète (Français) cv_complete list (English) my e-mails alain.preat@ulb.be apreat@gmail.com AWARD 2017 : The Van den Broeck Medal Why are the ‘red marbles’ red? Contribution of biology and iron isotopes online (web) publications My ResearchGate Profile 2025 … La transition énergétique : un voeu pieux?/Energy transition : nothing else than wishful thinking?, … Continuer la lecture de My/Mes publications →
by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, March 21, 2017 Dead zones affect dozens of coral reefs around the world and threaten hundreds more according to a new study. Watching a massive coral reef die-off on the Caribbean coast of Panama, they suspected it was caused by a dead zone — a low-oxygen area that snuffs out … Continuer la lecture de Dead zones may threaten coral reefs worldwide →
by Ph.F. Sexton et al., Nature, 2011 ‘Hyperthermals’ are intervals of rapid, pronounced global warming known from six episodes within the Palaeocene and Eocene epochs (~65–34 million years (Myr) ago)1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. The most extreme hyperthermal was the ~170 thousand year (kyr) interval2 of 5–7 °C global warming3 during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, 56 Myr ago). The PETM is widely attributed … Continuer la lecture de Eocene global warming events driven by ventilation of oceanic dissolved organic carbon →