Live from Antarctica: Discussion with Scientists and Engineers at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
Here's your chance to meet and engage with scientists and engineers that are working in Antarctica via a live Zoom event!
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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Two Successful Seasons for Horizon 2020 HYPERNETS Project at PEA
During the 2021-22 and 2022-23 austral summer research seasons, Quinten Vanhellemont from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences spent several weeks at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica installing and maintaining…
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Jan Lenaerts on field expedition plans for BENEMELT and IceCon projects
As the winner of the 2014 InBev-Baillet Latour Antarctic Fellowship, the largest research grant awarded to young polar researchers, Dr Jan Lenaerts from Utrecht University in the Netherlands will be spending…
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First-Time Visitor to Antarctica Paves Way for Geomagnetic Observatory
Having studied Earth’s magnetic field since the 1970s, Dr Jean Rasson from the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI) reflects on his first expedition to Antarctica, where he…
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Alain Hubert: Five Years of Memories, Five Plans for the future
To mark five years of hard work, scientific endeavour and adventure at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, we asked Base Leader, International Polar Foundation president and polar explorer Alain Hubert to share…
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The BeWise project’s highly successful second season
Having returned from his second trip to Antarctica to conduct research for the BeWise project funded by the InBev Baillet-Latour Fellowship, Dr. Reinhard Drews from the Glaciology Laboratory at the…
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News from the scientists in the field
Five scientists from the IceCon and Be:Wise projects, accompanied by a field guide and Princess Elisabeth Antarctic base leader Alain Hubert are currently on an expedition to the coast,…
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About the Antarctic Syndrome
Spending four months in Antarctica changes your perspective on life. It can be physically hard at times, but also physiologically challenging. Expeditions like these are both a personal and human…
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Interview with Vinciane Debaille, Meteorite Hunter
An international team of scientists working at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica recently discovered a meteorite weighing a massive 18kg embedded in the East Antarctic ice sheet, the largest such meteorite…
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Channeling the Inner MacGyver
Originally from the Netherlands, Erik Verhagen has now put in three solid seasons at Princess Elisaabeth Antarctica. He talks to us about daily life in Antarctica, what it means to…