Last year, Sciencepoles reported a sleep study being carried out on the BELARE 2007-2008 expedition team members, in Antarctica for the Princess Elisabeth Antarctic station's first building phase. Dr.…
Two outside labs and an automatic weather station are planned around the station. They shall be built during the BELARE 2008-09 expedition, which will tackle the physical integration of the…
The harsh and rigorous climate in Antarctica can only be met by a few species year-round. Many people think that penguins and seals are the most common organisms in Antarctica,…
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…
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…
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…