Snapshots of Scientific Research at the Princess Elisabeth Antartica
The scientific teams from the BioFe, MICROBIAN, and BELAM projects, as well as researchers from the Japanese National Institute for Polar Research (NIPR) are conducting research during the 2019-2020 season. Everyone is hard at work taking samples and collecting data. Our photographer took a few shots of the scientists in action to share with our followers.
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Here comes the Basler, carrying scientists who will work at the station during the second half of the 2019-2020 season!
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The entire station crew pose with the new group of scientists upon their arrival at the station.
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Kate Winter setting up a seismograph on a blue ice field near the station for the BioFe project, for which she won the 2018-2020 Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship.
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Kate Winter and her husband Ross Winter installing a seismograph for the BioFe project.
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Quentin Vanhellemont digging out snow that was artificially put over a study site last year for the MICROBIAN project.
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MICROBIAN scientists setting up fences to simulate snow accumulation as one of several possible climate change scenarios. Their goal is to see how possible climate change might affect microbial life.
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MICROBIAN scientists installing open top chambers on a ridge to artificially simulate warmer temperature scenarios. They hope to see how this artificial rise in temperatures might affect microbial life on the ridge in a warming world.
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Now it's time to collect samples of microbes on a moraine for the MICROIBIAN project.
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The team from the Japanese National Institute for Polar Research (NIPR) installing a special camera on top of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica to observe auroras.
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Benoît Verdin from the IPF station crew releases a weather balloon to take profiles of the atmosphere for the ACME project. Data such as temperature and humidity taken from a device attached to the weather balloon will contribute to data sets being put together for the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP).
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