Peeters K., Ertz D., Willems A. (2011) Culturable bacterial diversity at the Princess Elisabeth Station (Utsteinen, Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica) harbours many new taxa. Sy… Read More

Dear all,Dail has arrived on the 3rd February at the Chilean station Escudero.  The weather has not been very nice this season, and there is an unusually important snow cover. This coul… Read More

On the 29th January 2013, Dr Dail Laughinghouse (University of Liège) has started a long journey that would bring him to Punta Arenas (Chile, Patagonia) and then, to Antarctica. This… Read More

Hello,Lourenco Bandeira has come back from Escudero station with some pictures given by Dail. Indeed, the Internet connection is not very good, and it is difficult to send pictures for this… Read More

Hi Annick,I want to show the main representants of the terrestrial vegetation in this region, mosses, lichens and algae.Fresh green moss under the sand, Utsteinen.  Blackish frutic… Read More

Hello all,Today (19th of January), I climbed up the Mt. Vikinghegda (2751m). It was so windy, cold and dry. It looked just like a desert. But I was very surprised by the resilience of livi… Read More

Hi Annick,One day, I've get a chance to visit Mt. Yukidori-toride, meaning"Castle of snow petrels" in Japanese. Large number of snow petrels(pure white sea birds) are nested in the shade of… Read More

Dear all,In addition to the exploration of the biodiversity of mosses and lichens, Satoshi Imura has also the important task of maintaining the Open Top Chambers that were installed in 2010… Read More

Hello all,Our colleague Satoshi is enthusiastic about the terrestrial diversity around the station Princess Elisabeth! Cheers, Annick  Hi Annick,Utsteinen area should have the most… Read More

Hello all,In December 2012, the BELDIVA partners have asked to a Japanese colleague to participate to the campaign in the Princess Elisabeth station. Satoshi IMURA is a Biologist working at… Read More

Dear all,On arrival at the station, all scientists have received a training to learn to drive skidoos, but also to learn how to rescue people who have fallen in a crevasse, or if the person… Read More

Ici, dans le cadre du projet AHA, un clip montre Elie en train de changer les senseurs de température et humidité dans les OTC du projet BELDIVA.Cheers, Annick Read More

Ici, dans le cadre du projet AHA, un clip montre Elie en train de changer les senseurs de température et humidité dans les OTC du projet BELDIVA.Cheers, Annick Read More

Bonjour,Un enseignant de l'enseignement secondaire flamand est présent à la Station Princess Elisabeth dans le cadre de l'activité AHA-project. Dans des clips vid&eacute&hell…Read More

Today we flew to Novo and spend their one day waiting for the IL76 flight. Although I spent here several days (once 7 days in a row), I still find a strange place to get stuck waiting fo… Read More

I am very disappointed! We finally weren’t able to core the lakes due to the unusually amount of snow cover of this year!Different camera teams are filming Alain Hubert while he is c… Read More

Yesterday, (Friday) we experienced our first storm here at Utsteinen (see short movie).   I was happy to spend the day in the comfortable dining room of the Princess Elisabeth St… Read More

On the 8th and the 9th we went to the blue ice field in front of the moraine near Utsteinen Nunatak (blue area on the left side of the picture taken by Koen Meirlan). The aim was to recove… Read More

The Ilyushin at Cape Town, waiting for us!On Monday the 30th of January around 23.30 o’clock, we left Cape Town and headed to Novolazarevskaya (Novo for the friends); the Russian stati… Read More

Dear all,For the French-speaking among you, I am coordinating a series of lessons for a wide audience concerning multiple aspects of the Antarctic research. L'Antarctique dans tous ses &eacu&hell…Read More

Dear all,For the French-speaking among you, I am coordinating a series of lessons for a wide audience concerning multiple aspects of the Antarctic research. L'Antarctique dans tous ses &eacu&hell…Read More

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Dear readers,The end of my stay in the Princess Elisabeth station is coming close. Our flight to Novo is scheduled on Monday in the evening. There is a storm at present.Here, I send you a pa… Read More

As I have told you, on the 7th January, Gigi and myself have discovered a lake in a valley, that was not yet explored. The Yuboku valley was exposed to the North, and well protected against… Read More

The weather is not bad today, the wind speed is up to 10 m/s, but the biological crusts are covered with snow and there is not enough sunlight to melt them. Thus, I cannot work on the ridge… Read More

For those interested by the topics of Astrobiology, the audio files of the courses given by J. Reisse, Y. Nazé, E. Javaux and A. Wilmotte during Collège Belgique are available:… Read More

On the website of the Princess Elisabeth Station, you can listen 'live' to Zorigto, who explains his research, daily activities and long-term project:http://www.antarcticstation.org/photos_v… Read More