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.
Summertime is not a vacation either for the station's first scientific expeditions, due to reach Princess Elisabeth this coming austral season 2008-09. Prof. Frank Pattyn, from the Université Libre…
There is no summertime vacation for Linkebeek progression. Work has been carried out on several fronts, proceeding with the station's water treatment unit and its permanent scientific equipment.
This fourth pedagogical dossier describes the technical aspects of the Princess Elisabeth station, including its energy-efficient design and how water will be recycled and re-used.
The water treatment unit's (WTU) two bioreactors are the first sub-units to arrive on site in Linkebeek. The hydraulic system is making good progress at the Laborelec testing facilities, situated…
This technical paper is the first of a series to offer an in-depth focus on some of the technologies used at the Princess Elisabeth station. This first edition will set…
Thursday, June 9th 2008, the International Polar Foundation (IPF) was in Switzerland to give a presentation on the Princess Elisabeth station at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. The objective…
The building of a test mock-up of the station's technical core has just been finished. The objective of this phase is to control the technical and spatial integration of its …
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).…