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The 40^th geo-webinar will take place on Friday 18^th April. Anouk Borst (AfricaMuseum / KU Leuven) and Bossissi Nkuba (AfricaMuseum / UAntwerp) will join expertise to share their analysis of the situation in eastern DRCongo, in a presentation entitled : "From global to local perspectives on minerals and conflict in eastern DRCongo". Do not miss it!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 28^th March. Benjamin Mukasani will present his master research focusing on sustainable development to reduce flooding and the risk of flooding in Uvira (DRCongo). Do not miss it!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 24^th January. Elise Dujardin will present her doctoral research focusing on modelling urban gullies across Africa. Do not miss it!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 13 December. Vicky Bouénitéla will present her research entitled "Unravelling the metamorphic history of the Paléoproterozoic polymetamorphic units of the western domain of the Mayombe chain (West Congo Belt) through an analysis of garnet chemical zoning". Do not miss it!

On Tuesday 3^rd December, Axel Deijns, PhD student at the AfricaMuseum and the VUB, will publicly defend his doctoral thesis entitled "Compounding landslides and flash floods in tropical East Africa A remote sensing perspective". Join us at the AfricaMuseum or online!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 22^nd November. François Toussaint will present his doctoral research focusing on assessing ecosystem changes (2002-2022) in Lake Tanganyika using remote sensing data. Do not miss it!

The next geo-webinar will take place on Friday 8 November. Bram Valkenborg will present his doctoral research focusing on extracting impactful hazard events from news articles using Large Language Models. Do not miss it!

Urban gullies are rapidly growing problem in many tropical cities of the Global South. In particular, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been severely affected. Follow the PhD defenses of Eric Lutete Landu (28/11) and Guy Ilombe Mawe (29/11) to learn more on this issue. 

The first geo-webinar of the 2024-2025 season will take place on Tuesday 15 October. Antoine Dille will give a presentation entitled "From Ground to Orbit: Integrating Fieldwork and Satellite Data for Landslide Research in Central Africa". Do not miss it!