Interested in what's happening down at Princess Elisabeth? News from the field are posted here regularily to keep you updated about what's going on.
This last week the BELARE team has been busy preparing the three-kilometre long runway at Perseus International Airfield, going on field expeditions, and working on station upgrades.
This week at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station (PEA), the team continued making important adjustments to the station while pushing forward with several scientific support missions across the region.
After settling in at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (PEA), the team has fully reactivated all the station’s systems. Now that everyone has settled in, the real work begins:…
BELARE 2025-26 gets underway as the first crew members arrive at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica and work to get the station up and running.
Prof. Eric Rignot from UC Irvine discusses his work following a successful field campaign on the King Baudouin Ice Shelf in East Antarctica during the 2024-25 BELgian Antarctic Research Expedition …
Graduate student Ratnakar Gadi from UC Irvine’s Department of Earth System Science made history by successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation in an extraordinary setting—Belgium&rsquo…
Wildfires in California, floods in Spain and the Ardennes, Hurricane Hélène leaving a trail of destruction across the United States… The climate record of 2024 is…
BELARE 2024-25 is drawing to a close. Preparations are being made to put the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica into winter mode and pack away scientific equipment.
This week the four remaining scientific teams for this season - EXPOSOILS, PASPARTOUT, NISAR, and EPFL-CRYOS - wrapped up their work and started preparing for their flight home, which is…
The cargo ship has been unloaded and the logistics team led by Alain Hubert has been caught in a storm on the way back to PEA. Meanwhile, the scientists continue…