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The FLUX Team (ERC Project)

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We are a research team at VUB's AMGC lab, focused on reconstructing Earth's intake of extraterrestrial material across geological time. Work funded by the ERC.

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Jan 12

Hello, we are the FLUX team, a research group at @amgc-vub.bsky.social focused on studying Earth's extraterrestrial intake across the Phanerozoic! We are especially focused on cosmic dust variations and how these can be used to further our understanding of the Solar System and Earth's past climate ☄️

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Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab @brusselsbioarch.bsky.social · 20d

Celebrating the start of the academic year with our @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social friends 🥼😎🎓🔥☀️

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · 23d

Lastly, the FLUX PhD and Post-docs wrapped up their week at the #EPSC with a few group photos! 📸 ☄️😀
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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · 23d

And also congratulations to our #post-doctorate members (Lisa, Samuele, and @trygveprestgard.bsky.social) for presenting their ongoing work on fossil micrometeorites! ☄️
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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · 23d

A big congratulations to our PhD students who presented their posters at #EPSC last week! They (Clara, Deepak, @fienjo.bsky.social and Julius) shared their latest work on characterizing new micrometeorite collections from Greenland, the Atacama, and Antarctica! ☄️
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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · 23d

The team is back from a very nice time in #Helsinki at this year's #EPSC! Below is a picture of us all, plus Vinciane Debaille of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, as well as Cem Berk Senel and Ozgur Karatekin of @orb-ksb.bsky.social!
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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Aug 28

During these past weeks, the team has been busy analyzing many newly-found modern and fossil #micrometeorites! Featured in today's post is Clara and Samuele picking out new samples, as well as Maxwell and Trygve measuring their samples with the #Raman spectrometer! ☄️
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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Jul 31

It's time for more Raman spectra of micrometeorites! Looking forward to analyzing the large amount of data that we will be collecting over the next several days ☄️ #Spectroscopy
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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Jul 22

Just after #Goldschmidt2025, our project's Principal Investigator, Steven Goderis, represented the FLUX team at #MetSoc2025 in Perth! ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Jul 15

Had an incredible time at #Goldschmidt2025! We are delighted, and grateful, to have been able to present our ongoing research on micrometeorites. Here’s a group photo with all the participants! 😊☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Jul 15

In addition to the poster presentations, Fien, Lisa, Samuele and @trygveprestgard.bsky.social presented their talks on modern and fossil micrometeorites, as well as tektites! We are all grateful to have had the opportunity to present at #goldschmidt2025! ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Jul 15

The team was happy to be presenting at #goldschmidt2025 in #Prague! On Tuesday last week, Clara, Deepak, Jannes and Julius presented posters on their analysis of various new micrometeorite collections, plus some interesting new cosmochemical data! ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Jul 3

We are grateful to Lisa for having represented the FLUX team at this year’s #AsteroidDay in Luxembourg! 🌍☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Apr 25

We are happy to end this week with a "family photo" of most FLUX (and related) team members! Despite the Sun being absent, our smiles remained present! A big thanks to Jean-Guillaume Feignon for the photo 😄☄️

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Apr 22

These past two weeks have included quite a bit of work with the SEM! Today various members, including Julius and Lisa (below), have been imaging polished sections of their cosmic spherule finds! ☄️😀

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Apr 11

Of course, "Sam" being "Samuele" 😄

The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Apr 11

It's nearing the end of another productive week! Today's post features @fienjo.bsky.social and Samuele hunting for cosmic spherules, as well as @trygveprestgard.bsky.social measuring micrometeorites using the Raman spectrometer! Included is also an image showing *some* finds made by Sam this week!

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Apr 2

We are happy to end the day with this relatively large (>400 µm) S-type cosmic spherule find, most likely of the "Barred olivine (Bo)" subtype! This sample was found in Antarctic sediments. ☄️😀

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Apr 2

On Tuesday we collected abundant new Raman spectra of over a dozen cosmic spherules! We look forward to analyzing the data in detail ☄️😀

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Mar 27

A couple pictures from yesterday showing @zelclara.bsky.social, Julius and @trygveprestgard.bsky.social going through their micrometeorite finds here @amgc-vub.bsky.social ☄️☄️

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Clara Zelinsky @zelclara.bsky.social · Mar 20

A successful day of sampling comes to an end!
Today we took (a lot of) samples from the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary layer and the Hangenberg Shales - let’s see what we will find!

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Mar 24

This week starts with Lisa conducting SEM/EDX analysis of several tens of cosmic spherule candidates! Today's samples were only recently identified by our various FLUX team members here @amgc-vub.bsky.social. ☄️😁

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Mar 18

The micrometeorites keep rolling in here @amgc-vub.bsky.social! Here are six (among several tens) of cosmic spherule candidates recently spotted by Samuele in Antarctic sediments! ☄️✨

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Mar 13

Today, among other activities, @fienjo.bsky.social and Julius are diligently searching through sand for tiny cosmic spherules @amgc-vub.bsky.social ! Below are only a couple of the spherules that they have uncovered. Great job! ☄️👍

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Mar 11

The micrometeorite hunting here @amgc-vub.bsky.social continues! Today our team came across this "large" 0.5-mm cosmic spherule candidate! For comparison, we have also included a selection of "ordinary" micrometeorites, typical of what we find on a weekly basis ☄️✨

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The FLUX Team (ERC Project) @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social · Jan 29

It's a busy week at @amgc-vub.bsky.social's FLUX team! Among the ongoing activities, Deepak and @trygveprestgard.bsky.social are hunting and verifying potential micrometeorite finds from two different deserts! ☄️✨

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