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University of Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium

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Guy Munhoven is a Research Associate with the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F.N.R.S.). Having earned a Certificat d'Études Scientifiques (Section Mathématiques-Physique) from the Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg (1985-1986), he graduated in mathematics at the University of Liège, Belgium (1986-1989). He continued studying at that same university (1989-1990) for a Masters degree in astrophysics and geophysics (Maîtrise en Astrophysique et Géophysique - Option Géophysique), writing a thesis on the numerical modelling of the ocean carbon cycle in order to analyse the ocean's role in the past and future evolution of atmospheric CO2. He also obtained his Ph.D. (Doctorat en Sciences) from the University of Liège in 1997, examining the influence of changing continental weathering rates on atmospheric CO2 over glacial-interglacial time scales (Thesis: Modelling Glacial-Interglacial Atmospheric CO2 Variations: The Role of Continental Weathering, 273 pp., in English, with summaries in French and English).

Guy Munhoven re-joined the Laboratory for Planetary and Atmospheric Physics as an F.N.R.S. Research Associate in December 1999. He had already previously worked there as a Research Assistant (1991-1994, 1995-1997). He spent one year (1994-1995) at the Centre de Géochimie de la Surface (C.G.S./C.N.R.S.) in Strasbourg, France, as a fellow of the C.E.C. Human Capital and Mobility programme (later T.M.R.) and nearly two years as a postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Bristol Glaciology Centre (School of Geographical Sciences) at the University of Bristol (1998-1999)

His current research work concerns various aspects of global carbon cycle changes, mostly at glacial-interglacial timescales. The key instrument for his research work is a multi-box model of the ocean carbon cycle, coupled to a model of sea-floor sediments. His main interests concern the global operation of the ocean carbon cycle over glacial-interglacial time scales, under the influence of changing interactions with the continental environment. He primarily focusses on

  1. the role of changing continental weathering fluxes on the operation of the atmosphere - ocean - upper-sediment subsystem of the global carbon cycle, with emphasis on the influence of the presence of large ice-sheets during glacial times;
  2. the impact of glacial-interglacial changes of the terrestrial organic carbon reservoir on the ocean-atmosphere subsystem of the global carbon cycle.

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Laboratoiry for Planetary and Atmospheric Physics
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University of Liège
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