First Scientific Research: Glaciology at the Coast
This picture gallery introduces the scientific work carried out by the glaciologists and lead by Professor Frank Pattyn at the coast.
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The BELISSIMA project team arrives at Utsteinen
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Frank Pattyn ULB-BELLISSIMA, Nathalie Pattyn (medical doctor), and Matsuoka Kenichi from ULB-BELLISSIMA
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Alain Hubert and Jean Louis Tison are getting ready for their reconnaissance trip at the coast.
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Matsuoka Kenichi ULB- BELLISIMA , Hubbard Bryn and Samyn Denis
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The BELISSIMA camp, at the entrance of a rift (geological/glaciological formation of Crown Bay), an ideal site for drilling.
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The first camp site is situated along the coast for the BELLISIMA glaciology team. They had just carried out a 200 km traverse from Utsteinen in teh cabins, that is about an 18 hour trip.
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The BELISSIMA drilling team setting up their technical equipment.
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The BELISSIMA drilling team setting up their technical equipment.
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Jean-Louis andt Bryn are having a look at the drill.
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BELISSIMA camp welcome... it could be worse! For your information: the bad weather has concentrated on Utsteinen! You can tell by the tan.
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The BELISSIMA "radar" team was re-supplied: Kenny and Frank had comfortably set up their camp at 40 km from the coast.
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Re-supplying the BELISSIMA team
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Pattyn Frank ULB- BELLISIMA, works on the in-depth radar rendering of the ice.
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Close-up on the Nansen sledge, a Norwegian sledge tied up with lether bands.
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Kenny (Kenichi is his real name), adjusting his radar: he is both the conceiver and our Japanese-American radio-glaciologist.
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So much as 40 m of ice is kept in this freezer: from the bottom of this freezer, several centuries of natural history are looking right at you.
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The paradoxes of research in Antarctica: having to bring your freezers to such a cold place! It is used to keep the precious ice cores protected during their trip back to Brussels.
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The precious ice core: subject to major care.
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Drilling hole giving you the size of the ice core.
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Studying a first sample: measuring the ice core.76: The BELISSIMA drilling team setting up their technical equipment.
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The drill (well, actually, technically speaking it is an "ice corer"), in separate pieces.
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