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Mastersthesis Reference Amino Acid Fingerprinting to Distinguish Between Faecal Pellets of Fouling Fauna near an Offshore Wind Farm
Installation of OWFs have increased with the aim to combat climate change. They act as hard substrates which facilitates the growth of fouling fauna that are capable of enriching the sediments surrounding OWFs. Hence, biogeochemical changes occur and potentially creates a carbon sink, possibly demonstrating an unexpected positive effect of OWFs. Faecal pellets released by fouling fauna cannot be easily distinguished from other end-members of the OM pool (phytoplankton, zooplankton) and therefore this enrichment pathway has not been quantified yet. This study focused on optimising a CSIA-AA protocol for the novel use of amino acid fingerprinting of the FPs of dominant fouling fauna collected from an OWF in Belgium and investigate species-specific and season-stable patterns in AAs. Results suggested that the CSIA-AA protocol was successful in characterising the AAs in the FPs and were able to identify trophic AAs (increase in δ 15 N with trophic level) that were species- specific (alanine and isoleucine) and some that were stable across seasons (aspartic acid and leucine). Hence, future research can use CSIA-AA to accurately identify season-stable tracers that are specific to fouling fauna, characterise other end-members of the OM pool and estimate the contribution of each member to the carbon budget of an OWF.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2022
Mastersthesis Reference Approche morphométrique et dendrométrique de la croissance du pin pignon (Pinus pinea L.) en Basse Provence. Caractères adaptatifs et variabilité des provenances.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Mastersthesis Reference Behavioural and genetic mechanisms behind ecotypic divergence under gene flow in a salt marsh beetle
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Mastersthesis Reference CO2-EOR in het Noordzeegebied: een milieu-economische evaluatie
Located in Library / No RBINS Staff publications
Article Reference Description d'un nouveau sous-genre et de nouvelles espèces appartenant au genre Strongylium Kirby, 1819 de la région afrotropicale et remarques systématiques (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)
Located in Library / RBINS collections by external author(s)
Mastersthesis Reference Effect of pile driving on the seasonal and geographical distribution of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phoecoena) in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2022
Inproceedings Reference Étude anthropologique d’une tombe collective du Néolithique final : la Grotte de la Porte Aïve à Hotton (prov. Luxembourg, BE)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2018
Article Reference Etude anthropologique de la grotte I des Avins (comm. De Clavier, Prov. de Liège, BE).
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2017
Article Reference Etude anthropologique et taphonomique de la sépulture néolithique de Martouzin-Neuville (comm.de Beauraing, BE)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2017
Mastersthesis Reference Etude d'impact des changements hydrodynamiques induits par une ferme d'aquaculture de moules offshore
About 30 years ago, researchers of RBINS developed COHERENS (coupled hydrodynamical-ecological model for regional and shelf seas), a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model designed for a wide range of applications in coastal and shelf seas, estuaries, lakes and reservoirs. The main goal of this internship is to quantify the hydrographic changes (especially marine currents) induced by an offshore mussel aquaculture farm similar to the industrial project "Wesdiep Sea Farm", using the COHERENS model. The mussel aquaculture technique used in this project is known to disturb currents and turbulence in the water column. The goal of this internship is to implement the parameterisation of the impacts of the mussel droppers in the COHERENS hydrodynamic model as well as the addition of a new source term for turbulent kinetic energy production. Then, a sensitivity study will be carried out using the implementation made in a test case of a simplified mussel aquaculture farm. Note that in parallel to this report, a more complete report was produced for RBINS within the framework of this internship and the student has already been offered a contract of employment.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2022 OA