Princess Elisabeth Station 2010-2011: Scientists in the field

Scientists arriving by plane at the Princess Elisabeth Station (Utsteinen, Antarctica) on November 16th 2010.

Scientists arriving by plane at the Princess Elisabeth Station (Utsteinen, Antarctica) on November 16th 2010.

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  • Scientists arriving by plane at the Princess Elisabeth Station (Utsteinen, Antarctica) on November 16th 2010.
  • Scientists training before going in the field (Marie Dierckx, Université Libre de Bruxelles).
  • Scientists making their first acquaintance with ski-doos (training before going in the field).
  • One of the 2 BELISSIMA project team's base camp on the ice shelf. Frank Pattyn (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Kenichi Matsuoka (University of Washington) measured ice thickness with radar material and monitored ice movements.
  • Frank Pattyn (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Kenichi Matsuoka (University of Washington) with their radar material (BELISSIMA project).
  • Base camp of the second BELISSIMA project team at the Antarctic coast. They studied the movement of the ice through beaconing and did drilled to bring back some ice cores.
  • BELISSIMA team keeping their ice core samples fresh in an ice cave.
  • The convoy leading the SAMBA team to the mountain site where they will stay ~3 weeks to collect meteorites.
  • Storm at the SAMBA base camp.
  • Scientists of the SAMBA team, sampling a meteorite they just found.

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Teacher Koen Meirlaen performs the experiment at the Princess Elisabeth station in Antarctica.

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