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Frank Pattyn
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Frank Pattyn is a glaciologist, professor at
the ULB, director of the Laboratoire de
Glaciologie, and visiting professor at the
University of Ghent (UGent). He is responsable
for teaching geomorphology and climatology
courses in the Bachelor of Geography at the ULB.
On a scientific level, he took part in several
expeditions to Antarctica and to glaciers of the
Arctic, in order to study the interaction of
glaciers and ice sheets with subglacial water and
the ocean through the development of
next-generation ice sheet models. He is president
of the Belgian National Committee on Antarctic
Research, member of the steering comittee and
work package leader of ice2sea (an FP7 framework
project), and member of the steering comittee of
the NEEM project (Deep ice core drilling in
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