A Ninth Wind Turbine for Princess Elisabeth Station
The news has just arrived: a ninth wind turbine will supply energy for the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station.
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The news has just arrived: a ninth wind turbine will supply energy for the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station.
A call for proposal has been launched for the first Antarctica InBev-Baillet Latour Fellowship (ABLEF) Award. The laureate of this award will be allocated a research fund enabling him to…
Lt. Col. René Wagemans is from the Belgain Army's Humanitarian Crisis Response Unit attached to the Planning Division of the Assistant Chief of Staff (ACOS - Ops & Training).…
Gaëlle Hubert, one of Alain's daughters, is a Sociologist doing a PhD in European Studies in the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis. Although her father has been doing…
Didier Goetghebeur is the director of a non-profit organisation (ICEDD) specialised in sustainable development and dedicated to promoting and realising projects that use energy, land and materials more sustainably. During…
Bernard Polet is a self-employed plumber. He spent four months working at Utsteinen on a variety of projects that included a wide variety of tasks, including erecting the wind turbines,…
The Antarctica Society was hosted on Tuesday 15th April by Umicore, a Founding partner of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station. The Antarctica Society offers a closed-door meeting space between members…
During the 2007-2008 construction season, Johan Berte, project manager of the station's engineering design, carried out a series of tests at the Princess Elisabeth station before leaving Utsteinen. For Mr.…
An Automatic Weather System (AWS) was set up on the Southern end of the Utsteinen ridge in 2004 in order to monitor local climate and understand the wind's behaviour at a…
A new interview with Dr. Philippe Mettens has just been published on the IPF's SciencePoles website. Dr. Mettens is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Belgian Science Policy…