IPF Team Assists Scientists

Whether deployed in the field with scientists or doing work for scientsits who aren't scheduled to go to the Princess Elsiabeth Antartica during a given season, engineers from the International Polar Foundation make sure that all scientific instruments and equipment are working at their best to collect data for scientists back home.

Data from all kinds of scientific instruments, wheter attached to the roof of PEA or set up far out in the field, are relayed to the station and sent via satellite link back home.

IPF Chief Technical Officer Johnny Gaelens services instruments set up by the Belgian Royal Meteorological Institute.

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IPF Chief Technical Officer Johnny Gaelens services an instrument set up by the Belgian Royal Meteorological Institute.

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IPF Chief Technical Officer Johnny Gaelens services an automatic weather staton for the Lausanne Technical School (EPFL) in Switzerland before it is redeployed in the field.

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IPF engineers head out into the field to service an automatic weather station for the Lausanne Technical School (EPFL).

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IPF engineers set up a solar panel and wind turbine to power automatic weather stations collecting data for the PEACE project, a partnership between the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), the University of Colorado Boulder, and the International Polar Foundation.

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IPF engineer Nicolas Herinckx installs a GPS antenna near the abandoned Japanese Askua station not far from PEA for the Geodesy In ANTarctica (GIANT) project from the University of Luxembourg, which aims to trace the horizontal and vertical deformation of the Earth's surface.

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IPF Science Liaison Officer Henri Robert prepares to launch a weather balloon to collect a vertical data profile (temperature, air pressure, humidity, etc.) that contribute to regional weather forecasting and climate modelling.

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IPF Science Liaison Officer Henri Robert looks for snow petrel nests in Utsteinen Nunatak next to PEA station. Henri is following up on work done by researchers from the University of Durham on snow petrel breeding and feeding habits under the ANTSIE project.

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IPF Science Liaison Officer Henri Robert collects data loggers from snow petrels that nest in Utsteinen Nunatak next to PEA station. Henri is following up on work done by researchers from the University of Durham on snow petrel breeding and feeding habits under the ANTSIE project.

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IPF Team Assists Scientists

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