| NAME: | Bruneel Stijn
Vanden Bulcke Maite |
| NATIONALITY: | BELGIUM |
| HOME INSTITUTION : | University of Ghent |
| STAFF POSITION/ STUDENT YEAR OF STUDY AT HOME INSTITUTION : | Research
Student Thesis |
Mobility of Stijn Bruneel and Maite Vanden Bulcke to Galapagos.
Mobility Activities
Mobility of Stijn Bruneel and Maite Vanden Bulcke to Galapagos.
As a follow up of the previous mobility to Ecuador of professor Peter Goethals and Stijn Bruneel in April 2018, the main objective of this mobility was to strengthen collaborations and collect data for different dissertation topics. These topics were agreed upon earlier after consultation with local partner institutions.
Master student Maite Vanden Bulcke and her supervisor, Ph.D. student Stijn Bruneel, joined a team of students and professors from ESPOL and Ghent University in the Galapagos, Ecuador for one month to gather samples and collect data. For her thesis Maite is interested in the current state of fish communities in the Galapagos. She has been using a non-destructive video monitoring method and has taken physical-chemical measurements in the coastal ecosystems.
The Galapagos archipelago is facing multiple threats originating from tourism and climate change. Understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of the fish communities, will give us an insight in their susceptibility to intensifying anthropogenic pressures.
The intercultural team of students, as diverse as the islands themselves, worked together on different water related topics. The mobility was not only a success because of the amount of samples gathered and data collected, but also because of the new intercultural skills and better understanding of how fragile ecosystems need to be managed to prevent pressures such as climate change to wreak havoc.
Task
Practical placements in companies, industries and institutions
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Date
July 22, 2018
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HOST INSTITUTION :
ESPOL
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COUNTRY :
ECUADOR
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CITY :
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
