Program

Alan D. Wanamaker Jr. (Bangor University, U.K)

David P. Gillikin (Vassar College, USA)
Title: 800 years of garbage: Mussel shells from Belgian middens reveal environmental change over the past millennium

Maïte Bauwens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Title: Non linear methods for climate reconstruction

Veerle Beelaerts (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Title: Averaging-errors in proxy records

Leon J. Clarke (Bangor University)
Title: Li/Ca ratio palaeothermometry and Mg structural state: implications for palaeothermometry

Pier A. de Groot
Title: Kinetic isotope fractionation, 'vital effects', and other parameters - Magic or logic?

Elise Dufour (National Museum of Natural History)
Title: Otolith carbon isotope values and metabolic rate of Lake Annecy fishes

Bastien Farre (IDES)
Title: Lipids from the nacreous and prismatic layers of two Pteriomorpha Mollusc shells

Matthijs van der Geest (NIOZ)
Title: Can shells of the bivalve Anadara senilis be used as recorders of environmental conditions in the Banc d' Arguin, Mauritania?

Marc Gosselin (IRD)
Title: Growth increments and oxygen stable isotope as environmental recorders from the study of the Chilean bivalve Eurhomalea rufa

Dorit Jacob (Institute for Geosciences)
Title: Biomineralisation of mussel shells: Implications for palaeoclimatic reconstructions in marine and freshwater environments

Franck Lartaud (LEMAR)
Title: Chronological time-scale in shell mineralization. Preliminar investigations for geochemical studies

Rémy Mas (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Title: Carbonate stable isotopes of Mytilus edulis shell grown in aquarium

Frédéric Planchon (RMCA)
Title: Mg isotope fractionation in the Manila Clam (Ruditapes philippinarum)

Céline Poulain (LEMAR)
Title: Experimental shift in diet and DIC 13C: effect on the shell 13C of Ruditapes philippinarum

Nadine Tisnérat-Laborde (LSCE)
Title: Radiocarbon variability in North-East Atlantic recorded in mollusk shells

Michael Risk (McMaster University)
Title: How clams can keep people out of jail

Emma Versteegh (VUB)
Title: Bivalve growth increments reflect seasonal stable isotope variations of ambient water in the rivers Rhine and Meuse (abstract)

Anne Lorrain (IRD)
Title: to be proposed

Gabriella Barna (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Title: Seasonal Fluctuations in the Copper Age: stable isotope record of molluscan shells (Balaton region, Hungary)

Joana Cardoso (NIOZ)
Title: Age determination in bivalves: validation of the seasonality in growth bands

Ana Isabel Dos Ramos Catarino (ULB)
Title: Impact of seawater acidification on sea urchin growth

Rémy Mas (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Title 1: Stable isotopic composition of bivalve shells : Mytilus edulis
Title 2: Stable oxygen isotopic composition of starfish skeletons grown under controlled temperature and salinity conditions

E. Versteegh - Bivalve growth increments reflect seasonal stable isotope variations of ambient water in the rivers Rhine and Meuse (abstract)

G. Barna - Seasonal fluctuations in the Copper Age: stable isotope record of molluscan shells (Balaton region, Hungary) (abstract)