FROID - Antarctic Research Project - BELARE 2024-2025 season
The BELSPO funded FROID research project with support from the International Polar Foundation and its staff spent 5+ weeks by the Nils Larsen blue ice field in Queen Maud Land, East…
Through these small videos, we hope to give you a taste of what it is like to work and live at the Princess Elisabeth Station. We tried to cover a broad range of topics and uploaded parts of our archives to do so. We hope you'll like it.
The BELSPO funded FROID research project with support from the International Polar Foundation and its staff spent 5+ weeks by the Nils Larsen blue ice field in Queen Maud Land, East…
The BELSPO-funded ULTIMO project with support from the International Polar Foundation and their team spent over a month in close proximity to the Belgica mountain range in East Antarctica searching…
In January 2025 part of the IPF team climbed the antenna at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica to install instruments for the EPFL-CRYOS project.
During the height of summer at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, temperatures can sometimes climb above freezing, which is warm enough to melt ice in the nearby Utsteinen Nunatak windscoop!
On December 24th, the first weather balloon filled with hydrogen was launched from the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station. This milestone marks the firs time hydrogen produced at the station…
In late December, members of the BELARE team headed to the coast to prepare the site where members of the NISAR and PASPARTOUT projects will install instruments.
Here we see IPF engineer Mathilde Renard and IPF Founder and BELARE Team Leader Alain Hubert inaugurating the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica's new hydrogen production facility, which will be used…
Planes including the Alfred Wegener Institute's Polar 6 aircraft at the PEA Airfield getting ready to take off to conduct aerial surveys of the the ice margin at the coast…
Etienne Legrain from the VUB was interviewed before heading out to the Nansen Blue Ice Fields to to do fieldwork for the FROID project in December 2024 and January 2025. The project…
Dr. Maaike Izeboud from the VUB was interviewed before heading out to the Nansen Blue Ice Fields to to do fieldwork for the FROID project in December 2024 and January 2025. The…