Scientists at Work

Just like Antarctica, the Princess Elisabeth Station is dedicated to science. This year, the station welcomes Irina Gorodetskaya (KULeuven), Steve Roberts (British Antarctic Survey) & Elie Verleyen (UGent) for DELAQUA, and Zorigto Namsaraev (ULg) & Josef Elster (Botany Institute of the Academy of Sciences) for BELDIVA.

Irina Gorodetskaya (KUL) on the station's roof with the only microrain radar installed in Antarctica.

© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
Zorigto Namsaraev is desinfecting the drill to avoid contaminating a cryoconite hole.

© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
Zorigto Namsaraev (University of Liège) and Josef Elster (Botany Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of Southern Bohemia).

© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
Steve Roberts (BAS) and Elie Verleyen (UGent) with the radar on an ice lake at Utsteinen.

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Steve Roberts (British Antarctic Survey) cuts a block of granite on the Brattnipene moraine.

© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
Steve Roberts and Elie Verleyn take samples to study in the lab so they can determine the age of the moraines.

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Using precision GPS to determine the exact location and altitude of a rock.

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Josef Elster, polar ecologist at Botany Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of Southern Bohemia.

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Zorigto Namsaraev collects a piece of quartz onto which microscopic fauna has settled.

© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
Setting up chambers to study how bacteria respond to a warming of their habitat.

© International Polar Foundation / René Robert

Scientists at Work

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