Researcher wins North Sea Award 2020

_{Award presentation at VLIZ Marine Science Day - Wednesday 3 March 2021 - 9:00 a.m.} Camille Gaulier, joint-PhD from the AMGC Research Department at VUB and the University of Lille is the winner of the VLIZ North Sea Award 2020. VLIZ is the Flanders Marine Institute. The VLIZ North Sea Award is its annual prize to encourage innovative fundamental or applied research to a researcher or research group active in a country by the North Sea. The research should focus on studying the structure or functioning of the North Sea, with a special attention to the shallow coastal areas and estuaries of the Southern Bight and the English Channel. It is the third year in a row that a VUB researcher wins the VLIZ North Sea Award, with Sebastiaan Van de Velde in 2018 (AMGC - joint supervised by Prof. Yue Gao and Prof. Filip Meysman) and Evelien Brand in 2019 (HYDR). "This is a clear demonstration of the quality of the marine research, particularly in biogeochemistry, performed at the VUB,' prof Philippe Claeys, from the AMGC research group proudly says. Camille Gaulier, PhD candidate under the supervision of prof. Yue Gao, investigates new ways of monitoring metals around and at the Belgian coast.