Photos From Training Weekend in Chamonix 2021
During the weekend of September 24th to 26th, the BELARE team went to Chamonix, France to undergo some field training and get ot know their colleagues taking part in the…
Every season, we publish pictures from Antarctica and we now have quite an archive available. You can follow the life of the Princess Elisabeth Station from its origins in Brussels until the present.
During the weekend of September 24th to 26th, the BELARE team went to Chamonix, France to undergo some field training and get ot know their colleagues taking part in the…
In May and early June 2021, iceberg D28, which calved off from the Amery Ice Shelf in September 2019, collided with the Dog's Head formation on the King Baudouin Ice…
The BELARE team has bene very busy preparing the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica for overwintering while they pack up for the trip home. The station's solar panels have been covered…
Before his departure in mid-January, Preben Van Omeirmen from Ghent University went on a field expedition to the Antarctic Plateau and the coast to retrieve sampling devices and samples for…
As the team has been putting the finishing touches on the station’s new annexes, this past week they also got a lift thanks to a new system they…
Since the new year, the BELARE team has been putting the finishing touches on the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica's new annexes. Now that the new annexes have been hooked…
During the 2020-2021 season, Armin Sigmund, a PhD student from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) CRYOS Lab, contucted fieldwork for the From Clouds to Ground: Snow…
Christmas and New Year's celebrations were more subdued than in previous years with fewer people at the station this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it didn'…
Ever since their arrival in late November, the BELARE team has been hard at work on a number of maintenance projects around the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station. This gallery gives…
The 2020-2021 BELARE season is off to a good start, despite the added logistical challenge this year of dealing with the COVID-19 situation. The team - consisting of Expedition Leader…