Weather Permitting
All Antarctic activities are subjected to the law of the elements. This is even truer this season than during the previous ones. Besides the poor weather conditions we had upon…
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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Taking Ocean Depth Measurements for BELISSIMA Project
Between 2 and 8 December 2011 a small team led by Alain Hubert and Dr. Katherine Leonard completed the first survey of Southern Ocean properties near the Roi Baudoin ice shelf.
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Sea Water Measurements at the Coast
Last week, a small team led by Alain Hubert guided BELISSIMA scientist Katherine Leonard to the coast. The trip went well, and upon reaching the coast, the team quickly set…
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A Successful Trip to the Coast
At 10 o'clock on Thurday morning, a team led by Alain Hubert left Utsteinen to set up the first base camp of the BELISSIMA project at the coast, some 200km north…
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Straight Through the White-Out
Our first Mission this year was to drive the Japanese to their first base camp, 76km away from the station. What should have been a simple task turned into quite…
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Arrival of the Japanese Scientists
Today, a team of geologists from the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Tokyo arrived with two tons of material. On top of carrying on with digging out the…
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Microbiologists Identify Sør Rondanes as Bacteria Hotbed
Scientists Karolien Peeters and Anne Willems from Ghent University and Damien Ertz from the National Botanic Garden of Belgium, who were down in Antarctica in January 2007, recently published a study…
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BELATMOS: Alexander Mangold on Measuring the Atmosphere
After he returned from his stay at the Princess Elisabeth Station (PEA) in February, we got in touch with Alexander Mangold from the Royal Meteorological Institute in Belgium. We discussed…
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GIANT: An End of Season Talk with Olivier Francis
We got in touch with Olivier Francis (University of Luxembourg), who was responsible for the GIANT project this year, when he got back from Antarctica. In this article, he tells…
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Just Back: An Interview with Detlef Damaske and Andreas Laufer
The following is an interview with geophysicist Detlef Damaske and geologist Andreas Laufer from the German Federal Institute of Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR). Dr. Damaske has been working at…