Traverse for the CHASE and CLIMB projects
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…
Picture Galleries
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 debuts in Brussels until now.
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Armin Sigmund Condutcs Fieldwork for the EPFL-CRYOS “From Clouds to Ground” Project
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…
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First Weeks of 2020-2021 Season
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…
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Encountering Wildlife at the Coast of Antarctica
During scientific research expeditions and traverses to pick up supplies brought by cargo ship to the coast of East Antarctica, the possibility of encountering Antarctic wildlife is pretty high. Here…
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Scenes from IPF’s Skype Classes from the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
During the 2019-2020 austral summer research season in Antarctica, the International Polar Foundation has organised a number of Skype classes with school children from around Europe. Since the Princess…
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Snapshots of Scientific Research at the Princess Elisabeth Antartica
The scientific teams from the BioFe, MICROBIAN, and BELAM projects, as well as researchers from the Japanese National Institute for Polar Research (NIPR) are conducting research during the 2019-2020 season.…
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Building Solar Power Units for Scientists
BELARE engineers Guus Luppens and Johan De Muylder have been hard at work building mobile solar-powered devices to provide scientists working in the field with renewable energy to power their…
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United for Climate-Human Chain’s Antarctic Extension
On the morning of Saturday 7 December, scientists from all over the world along with the operational team at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica from the International Polar Foundation formed a human…
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Scientists Begin Their Work during the 2019-2020 Season
Scientists from the CHASE, MASS2ANT and POPE projects arrived on the first ever intercontinental flight to Perseus Airstrip on 22 November, and have been working on their respsective research…
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GEOMAG observatory gets instruments and Toyota Hiluxes see more action
Here are some photos of the GEOMAG observatory as the first instruments are set up in the shelter built to house them more than half a kilometre away from the…