All Systems up and Running!
Upon arriving at Utsteinen, the priorities were clear for the team: start the bulldozers, prepare the generator, and set the station ready for electrical start-up. First opened at 1pm (CET),…
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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Preparing the Relaunch of the Station’s Systems
During the winter, Princess Elisabeth Antarctica's core systems are either idle or functioning at very low intensity. At the beginning of a new season, all systems have to be thoroughly…
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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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A Whole Lot of Snow
Flying into Antarctica from Cape Town (South Africa), the first members of the 2011-2012 BELARE Expedition (Belgian Antarctic Research) set foot in Utsteinen on November 16th after a stop at…
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Loading Operations at Wervik
Extreme expeditions require exceptional logistics, and this is especially true for Antarctica. Preparing the 2011-2012 season, a special operations team packed and loaded the freight cargo to be shipped to…
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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…
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Honshu Earthquake Measured by Seismic Station at PEA
The seismic station that was installed by the Royal Observatory of Belgium at the Princess Elisabeth Station in Antarctica has recorded the earthquake that hit the eastern shores of Honshu…