Photos of the Last Scientific Projects of the 2021-22 Season at PEA
In this gallery you can find some of the last photos of researchers at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica during the 2021-22 austral summer resaerch season from the GIANT, HYPERLINKS, ANTSIE and RECTO projects.
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The new GNSS & GPS are now powered with Superwind wind turbine and solar panel to power the equipment for years to come.
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Despite the difficult and strong wind conditions, Sajad Tabibi (ULux) upgraded the GNSS and GPS receiver at the former Asuka Japanese station.
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Dr Olivier Francis from the University of Luxembourg explains the functioning of the absolute gravimeter installed near PEA in the framework of the GIANT project.
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At the end of the season, the gravitometer is dismantled and carefully packed for another mission somewhere else in the world.
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Snow petrel breeding is perfectly adapted to the short austral summer available to raise a single chick each year. Here a 2-3 week old chick is waiting for one of its parents to bring its next meal from the coast.
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In most of the snow petrel colonies, predators like the south polar skua are never far away. Here we see the nest of a skua, which only consists of a loose pebbles on a soft part of the moraine at the bottom of a nunatak.
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Dr Bruno Danis from the Marine Biology laboratory of ULB collects samples of microorganisms on a nearby nunatak for the BELSPO-RECTO project.
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As a part of the RECTO project, Bruno Danis visited some of the most important Snow Petrel colony of the Western part of the Sur Ronda Mountains.
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Durham University PhD student Ellie Honan and Steph Prince from the UK Royal Society for the Protection of Birds successfully manage to capture and GPS track snow petrels breeding on Utsteinen Nunatak close to PEA.
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For the ANTSIE project, Eleanor and Steph carefully place GPS and GLS loggers on snow petrels' tail and tarsus to shed light on their feeding habits and breeding behaviour.
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The DC3 BASLER built in the late 40's remains the best adapted aircraft to transport crew and heavy cargo to different stations around Antarctica.
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On 4 February the last teams of scientists at PEA for the 2021-22 season pose in front of the DC-Basler before leaving for home.
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