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- Study nitrogen fluxes in aquatic systems (small rivers, lakes, estuaries, coastal marine systems) with a focus on the processes of nitrification, ammonification, and uptake of dissolved inorganic nitrogen; and establishing N-budgets at whole ecosystem scale. Studied systems: Zenne River, Aa River, Scheldt Estuary, Seine Estuary, Tanganyika Lake, North Sea, North Atlantic Ocean.
- Chief scientist for several marine sampling cruises on board RV BELGICA
- Teaching Environmental Chemistry
- Analysis of nutrients (nitrate, nitrite, ammonium, silicate, phosphate) in water with automated methods
- Wastewater management in urban river ecosystems
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Projects
- 17 Finished
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BRGIMP19: BRIDGE 2019: SUBLIMUS – Becoming modern green urban alchemists: Gold and silver mining from Brussels urban sewage
Elskens, M., Claeys, P. & Brion, N.
1/03/19 → 30/06/22
Project: Applied
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BRGEOZ262B: OSIRIS - Tracing Metropolitan Brussels water routes
Claeys, P., Elskens, M. & Brion, N.
1/10/16 → 30/09/18
Project: Fundamental
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BRGEOZ262: OSIRIS - Tracing Metropolitan Brussels water routes
Claeys, P., Elskens, M., Brion, N. & Verbanck, M.
1/10/14 → 30/09/16
Project: Applied
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VLIR296: South Initiative (SI) : Tracing the status and impacts of terrestrial contamination in the coastal environments of Tanzania.
Brion, N., Elskens, M. & Baeyens, W.
1/09/14 → 31/08/16
Project: Fundamental
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Deciphering the carbon and nitrogen cycling in selected tropical coastal fish: revelations from stable isotope fluctuations and feeding patterns
Mhande, Z., Mihale, M. J., Hellar-Kihampa, H., Brion, N. & Baeyens, W., 4 Feb 2025, In: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 197, 3, p. 1-16 16 p., 237.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Freshwater Discharge and Salinity Drive Taxonomic and Functional Turnover of Microbial Communities in a Turbid Macrotidal Estuary
Amadei Martínez, L., Sabbe, K., D'hondt, S., Dasseville, R., Daveloose, I., Verstraete, T., Chaerle, P., Brion, N., Maris, T., Meire, P. & Vyverman, W., Aug 2025, In: Environmental Microbiology Reports. 17, 4, p. 1-14 14 p., e70135.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Phytoplankton enhances the flocculation of suspended particulate matter in a turbid estuary
Amadei Martínez, L., Sabbe, K., Fettweis, M., Desmit, X., Israel, Y., Bakker, W., Dasseville, R., D'hondt, S., Daveloose, I., Verstraete, T., Chaerle, P., Brion, N., Maris, T. & Vyverman, W., Nov 2025, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 70, 11, p. 3431-3446 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Phytoplankton bloom distribution and succession driven by sea-ice melt in the Kong H kon VII Hav
Lenss, M., Moreau, S., Hattermann, T., Wiktor, J., Rózanska, M., Claeys, P., Brion, N., Chierici, M., Fransson, A. & Campbell, K., 2 Aug 2024, In: Elementa. 12, 1, 20 p., 12.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Robust calix[4]arene-polyethyleneimine coated iron oxide nanoparticles for enhanced recovery of gold and platinum chloride complexes
Moya, C., Brion, N., Troian-Gautier, L., Jabin, I. & Bruylants, G., 2024, In: Environmental Science: Nano. 12, 1, p. 777-790 14 p., 10.1039/D4EN00408F.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus)
Activities
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Past and present carbon dynamics in the Scheldt estuary as traced by changes in the isotopic composition of dissolved inorganic and particulate organic carbon
Sybrien Lievens (Speaker), Tom Maris (Contributor), Yue Gao (Contributor) & Natacha Brion (Contributor)
6 Mar 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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Sampling campaign of Plastic City project in the Canal upstream and downstream Brussels
Yuwei Jia (Participant) & Natacha Brion (Participant)
21 Feb 2023 → 22 Feb 2023Activity: Other › Research and Teaching at External Organisation
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Sampling campaign of Plastic City project in the Zenne River and the wastewater treatment plant
Yuwei Jia (Participant) & Natacha Brion (Participant)
7 Feb 2023 → 8 Feb 2023Activity: Other › Research and Teaching at External Organisation
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Développement d'outils pour le suivi de la matière organique dans le bassin Artois Picardie (Event)
Natacha Brion (Chair)
31 Jan 2023Activity: Membership › Member of PhD committee
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Workshop on analyses of microplastics with FTIR
Natacha Brion (Chair)
14 Dec 2022 → 16 Dec 2022Activity: Other › Research and Teaching at External Organisation
Press/Media
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La Dernière Heure, VRT-NEWS, RTBF, Les Échos, Bruzz, Daily Science etc. highlighted our SUBLIMUS project
Natacha Brion, Philippe Claeys & Marc Elskens
24/10/19 → 16/08/21
15 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Free Brussels Journal METRO covers our SUBLIMUS project
Philippe Claeys, Marc Elskens & Natacha Brion
20/09/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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High levels of oestrogen found in the Zenne
Tara Vandermarken, Natacha Brion, Kersten Van Langenhove & Marc Elskens
16/10/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Thesis
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Etude de la nitrification dans l'estuaire de la Seine
Author: Brion, N. & Billen, G., 1993Supervisor: Billen, G. (External person) (Promotor)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis