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.
News from Antarctica
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.
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Antarctica Inbev-Baillet Latour Fellowship Award: Call for Proposals
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…
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Interviewing Lieutenant Colonel René Wagemans
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).…
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Interview with Gaëlle Hubert (cook)
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…
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An Interview with Didier Goetghebeur
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…
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An Interview with Bernard Polet
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,…
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Antarctica Society: First Meeting
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…
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Tests Carried Out at the Station BELARE 2007-2008
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.…
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Testing the Automatic Weather Station
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…
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Belgium Returns to Antarctica: an Interview with Dr. Philippe Mettens
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…