FROID - Antarctic Research Project - BELARE 2024-2025 season
The BELSPO funded FROID research project with support from the International Polar Foundation and its staff spent 5+ weeks by the Nils Larsen blue ice field in Queen Maud Land, East…
Videos
Through these small videos, we hope to give you a taste of what it is like to work and live at the Princess Elisabeth Station. We tried to cover a broad range of topics and uploaded parts of our archives to do so. We hope you'll like it.
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Research in Antarctica - ULTIMO - Meteorite Hunters
The BELSPO-funded ULTIMO project with support from the International Polar Foundation and their team spent over a month in close proximity to the Belgica mountain range in East Antarctica searching…
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Climbing Antenna at PEA for EPFL-CRYOS project
In January 2025 part of the IPF team climbed the antenna at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica to install instruments for the EPFL-CRYOS project.
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First Weather Balloon filled with Hydrogen Produced at PEA Launched
On December 24th, the first weather balloon filled with hydrogen was launched from the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station. This milestone marks the firs time hydrogen produced at the station…
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Interview with Etienne Legrain (ULB/VUB) about the FROID project
Etienne Legrain from the VUB was interviewed before heading out to the Nansen Blue Ice Fields to to do fieldwork for the FROID project in December 2024 and January 2025. The project…
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Interview with Dr. Maaike Izeboud (VUB) about the FROID project
Dr. Maaike Izeboud from the VUB was interviewed before heading out to the Nansen Blue Ice Fields to to do fieldwork for the FROID project in December 2024 and January 2025. The…
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Sibylle Boxho from ULB Discusses Sampling Work for the PASPARTOUT Project
In January 2024, researcher Sibylle Boxho from the Unviersite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) travelled to Antarctica for the PASPARTOUT project, which is seeking to understand the links between atmospheric circulation patterns,…
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Last Sunset of Austral Autumn 2021 at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
May 14th, 2021: The sun sets for the last time during the austral autumn of 2021 at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, the world's first zero-emission polar research station.
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Video of MASS2ANT Field Work in Antarctica
Nander Wever (currently at the University of Colorado at Boulder) took video of researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) involved in the MASS2ANT project on their…
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Studying Antarctic ice mass balance and solar activity at the Royal Observatory of Belgium
Nicolas Bergeot from the Royal Observatory of Belgium talks about the interesting research on ice mass balance and Earth’s geomagnetic field he and his colleagues are carrying out…