Communications

News and media

European Research Council Starting Grant award (2019): CarbOcean - unraveling the ocean's biological carbon pump.
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellow of the week, 3 August 2018.
Interview with Iodysséus on research and research interests, 1 August 2018.
Three first author papers featured in newsletters of the IOCCG (September 2009, August 2012, and August 2016), and in Knack magazine in February 2012

Outreach

Griet_VLIZ from Griet Neukermans on Vimeo.

European Researcher's Night 2021; Women in Science portrait [Podcast in Dutch] by Wisenight. (24-25 September 2021, Brussels)
2021: A Science Odyssey - A journey across oceans and seas and the return home. Keynote talk; overview of my professional journey, Marine Science Day of Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). 4 March 2021. Ostend, Belgium. Invited by Jan Mees, director VLIZ. Video, talk starts at minute 10. [Presentation Slides]
Pitch-talk of the WhiteShift project at the European Researcher's Night, Marie Curie 100 000th fellow Award Ceremony, 26 September 2017, Brussels, Belgium.
Participation to the Fête de la Science at the Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche. Pourquoi la mer est-elle azur à la Côte d’Azur? Experiences optiques. Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 14-15 October 2017.
Participation to the Medites project for the promotion of scientific culture to youth in France. Séance métiers scientifiques, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, France, 27 April 2017.
Talk on the Impact of climate change on the Arctic Ocean, co-presented with Céline Dimier and Joséphine Ras. Social Center of Carros, France, 1 Avril 2017.
Talk on Light and life beneath sea ice in the Canadian Arctic, Young Scientist Day Flanders Marine Institue, March 2016.
Guest lecture Light and Life beneath Sea Ice, Inuksuit School, Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut, Canada, May 2015.
Participation to documentary film and online educational resources to increase awareness of the Arctic Ocean with teenagers and the general public, May 2015.
Contributions to the GreenEdge project blog: Light and life beneath sea ice: the IcePRO instrument, Measuring light scattering and absorption properties of the ice-covered water column, May 2015.
Director/Script promotional film for the international Master programme in Oceans and Lakes: Module marine ecology field work, Module marine ecology laboratory work, April 2007.
Guest lecture Fishing practices around the world, Gazi Bay Elementary School, Kenya, November 2005.
Scientific content analyst for Expedition Zeeleeuw, e-learning project of Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Ostend, Belgium, 15 August – 15 September 2004.

Teaching

Coccolithophores: optical properties, ecology, and biogeochemistry. Summer Lecture Series of the International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group. 25 June-7 July 2018, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France. [Video] [Slides]
Field work in marine ecology, MSc. Oceans and Lakes, Free University of Brussels (120h in 2007); planning, coordination, and teaching of field work in Belgium and France for >20 students
Scientific writing, MSc. Oceans and Lakes, Free University of Brussels (10h in 2007) [PDF]
Satellite image processing, UNESCO/IOC project Office for IODE, Ostend, Belgium (8h on 20 March 2006)
Mathematics, Koninklijk Atheneum Zaventem, Belgium (20h in 2005) in partial fulfillment of the Teaching degree in Mathematics at the Free University of Brussels.
Solving differential equations, MSc. Biomedical Sciences, Free University of Brussels (6h in 2002)

Invited talks

Neukermans, G. 2021: A Science Odyssey - A journey across oceans and seas and the return home. Keynote talk, Marine Science Day of Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). 4 March 2021. Ostend, Belgium. Invited by Jan Mees, director VLIZ. Video, talk starts at minute 10. [Presentation Slides]
Neukermans, G. Impact of climate change on coccolithophore blooms and their role in sinking carbon in the subpolar oceans. Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Department of Climate Geochemistry, Mainz, Germany, 14 August 2019. Invited by R. Schiebel.
Neukermans, G. Optical properties and remote sensing of coccolithophores: recent advances and selected applications in biogeochemistry and climate. International Ocean Colour Science Meeting, 9-12 April 2019, Busan, South-Korea. Keynote talk, invited by C. Wilson, chair of the International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG). [Presentation Slides]
Neukermans, G., Terrats, L., and Claustre, H. Carbon export from coccolithophore blooms: a synergetic approach using BGC-Argo floats and ocean colour satellite data. International BGC-Argo workshop, 6-8 November 2018, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. Invited by P. Boyd.
Claustre, H. and Neukermans, G. The Biogeochemical-Argo network: European and French perspectives and the SOCLIM (Southern Ocean and Climate) project. International BGC-Argo workshop, 6-8 November 2018, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. Invited by P. Boyd.
Neukermans, G. Impact of climate change on blooms of the coccolithophore E. huxleyi and their role in sinking carbon in the Subarctic Ocean. GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, 14 May 2018. Invited by U. Riebesell and L. Bach.
Neukermans, G. Impact of climate change on Emiliania huxleyi blooms and their role in sinking carbon in the Subarctic Ocean. ACRI ST Group, Sophia-Antipolis, France, 17 April 2018. Invited by O. Fanton d’Andon and A. Mangin.
Neukermans, G., and Babin, M. Borealization of phytoplankton blooms in the Arctic Ocean’s inflow shelves, Guest lecture, National Institute of Biology, Piran, Slovenia, 27 October 2017. Invited by T. Tinta [Video]
Neukermans, G., and Babin, M. Footprints of Atlantification and Pacification on phytoplankton blooms in the Bering and Barents Seas, 4th pan-Arctic research symposium, Motovun, Croatia, 20-26 October 2017. Invited by P. Wassmann.
Neukermans, G., E. Devred, and Babin, M. Phytoplankton blooms in an Atlantifying Barents Sea. 8 March 2016, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France. Invited by H. Claustre.
Neukermans, G., R. A. Reynolds, and Stramski, D. Optical differentiation of ecological regimes in the Arctic Ocean. Université Laval, Québec Océan Science Seminar, 17 June 2014, Québec, Canada. Invited by M. Babin.
Neukermans, G., Loisel, H., Mériaux, X., McKee, D., and R. Astoreca. Variability of mass specific beam attenuation and backscattering of marine particles: the role of particle size, density, and composition. Optical Processes Symposium workshop, NATO Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation, 29-31 March 2011, La Spezia, Italy. Invited by C. Trees.
Neukermans, G., Nechad, B., and K. Ruddick. Optical remote sensing of coastal waters from geostationary platforms: Mapping suspended matter with SEVIRI. Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 30 January 2009. Invited by D. Antoine.

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