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.
As the Perseus International Airfield opens for incoming team mebers and scientists, operations at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica move full steam ahead for logistics, infrastructure, and science.
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:…
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…
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…
Belgian and international scientists from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) have returned from Antarctica with samples and data that could help them…
With their safety training complete, this past week the newly arrived scientists headed out into the field to begin their field work while the IPF team prepared for the arrival…