Scientists and Second Team Arrive
On Saturday, December 17th, a second team, including scientists form the BAMM, HYPERNETS and PEACE projects arrived at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica.
After going through the requisite safety training, the scientsits got to work on their respective projects.
-
The second team on the feeder flight to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
© International Polar Foundation / BAMM project
-
The feeder flight arrives on Saturday, December 17th with the scientists and additional crew to work on various maintanence and improvement projects at PEA.
© International Polar Foundation
-
The team from the BAMM project Ryoda Maeda (Vrije Universiteit Brusel), (Vinciane Debaille (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Maria Valdes (Université Libre de Bruxelles), and Maria Schönbächler (ETH Zürich) pose in front of the DC-3 soon after they disembark.
© International Polar Foundation
-
Station Doctor Jeanne Picart gives a mandatory first aid training session for all new arrivals.
© International Polar Foundation
-
During a mandatory first aid training station Doctor Jeanne Picart demonstrates what to do when someone falls and injures themselves while in the field.
© International Polar Foundation
-
The BAMM team leaves on an orientation training before they head out into the field fro 10 days.
© International Polar Foundation
-
Quinten Vanhellemont from the Belgian Royal Institute of Natural Sciences adjusts the skycam on the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. He's in Antartica to work in equipment for the Horizon 2020-funded HYPERNETS project.
© International Polar Foundation
-
Simon Steffen from the WSL in Zürich checks the radio relay for the automatic weather stations in the PEACe project on Tony Autenboer Peak in the Sør Rondane Mountains.
© International Polar Foundation