Interview with Michaƫl Durdu, Industrial Engineer
Michaël Durdu is an industrial engineer and is almost 25 years old. He has been working for Cofely Services - a subdivision of GDF Suez specialized in maintenance and…
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Michaël Durdu is an industrial engineer and is almost 25 years old. He has been working for Cofely Services - a subdivision of GDF Suez specialized in maintenance and…
Jacques Touchette is a Canadian from Québec. He is 58 years young and has years of experience in several trades, including as a joiner and working on the construction…
Ilir, also known as Adriatik Berisha, has Albanese origins. A joiner at Cherbai (carpentry) for the past five years, and father of two, he tells us of his experience during…
The seismic station, installed by the ROB at the Princess Elisabeth Station, has been fully operational since February 23rd, 2010.
Frank Pattyn, Kenichi Matsuota and Johan Berte published a study of glaciological and meteorological conditions in the vicinity of the Princess Elisabeth Station. The study examined the wind conditions, temperatures,…
The autonomous functioning of the station depends on the seamless operation of all the active systems. The programming to achieve this is gradually being polished up as new anomalies or…
The new team arrived with Denis Lombardi (seismologist from the Royal Observatory of Belgium), the team from SES Astra (Marcel Kneipp and Robert Smith), Bernt Franzen from Vertex (the satellite…
There's a lot to get ready for the next flight. The satellite platform has to be anchored in the granite and assembled. The dish has to be built up before…
After nearly 44 years of silence on the Belgian side of the radio, activity has started again from the Princess Elisabeth Station at Utsteinen. Karel Moerman has been able to establish…
Another week has passed and the storm has come and gone; however it came at a time that prevented the BELARE members we were meant to welcome from landing.