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…
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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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…
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Glaciology explained
Glaciologists from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium talk about their research for the IceCon project, both in the field in Antarctica and in their laboratory back…
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A successful season for Jan Lenaerts
Jan Lenaerts, the 2014 Inbev-Baillet Latour laureate is really happy with the work he was able to accomplish during the 2014-2015 BELARE expedition and with the support he got from the…
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Could AWI scientists have discovered a new meteorite impact site in Antarctica?
Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Germany, discovered a possible meteorite impact site during an aerial geological survey mission…
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Drilling and radar measurements at the coast
We followed the IceCon crew during their expedition in November and December. ULB glaciologists Jean Louis Tison and Frank Pattyn took the time to explain their research, what glaciology can…