ILEE Lunch Seminar

Thibaut Bouveroux, PhD (Marine ecologist and founder of Marine Mammal Expertise, Belgium) will talk about:

Research methods in ecology applied to marine mammals
My current research focuses on the ecology of the Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the coastal waters of Alabama (United States), as part of a large-scale project that I am leading with the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. This project aims to assess the health of resident populations in order to better understand their dynamics and conservation issues, including:

• estimating abundance and degree of residence,
• studying habitat and spatial distribution,
• genetic and ecotoxicological approaches.

This presentation will highlight the tools like the photo-identification and biopsy methods and the types of analyses we perform on the samples collected. I will discuss the results concerning the estimation of abundance and degree of residence, with a brief link to genetic and spatial analyses. 

Carolin Mayer, ILEE: Report back from Pollutec 2025 - an exposition on environmental innovation

Thanks to the support of AWEX, the Walloon Agency for Export and Foreign Investment, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, the Walloon H2O Cluster and GreenWin, more than 70 Walloon companies participated in Pollutec at Lyon in early October, a huge exposition on environmental innovation to showcase their creative solutions in the field of water and circular economy. I presented ILEE during a R&D project development workshop with Wallonia–France–Quebec–Switzerland looking for new collaboration opportunities. In this report presentation, I will inform you about different programmes and people I met that could be of interest for everybody working with water pollution!

Please order your sandwich before Monday, 17th of November, 9h.
carolin.mayer@unamur.be

Sandwich list here (no hot sandwiches please)