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After enjoying a pleasant and cheerful Christmas celebration, the PEA crew is already back at work!

Over the years, a plethora of scientific equipment has been set up at and in the vicinity of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica for scientists to collect data on nearly any parameter you can imagine, including temperature, wind speed, atmospheric particles, cloud, temperature, ozone, albedo, seismic activity, Earth’s geomagnetic field, and many more.

On December 17, Thomas Stocker, a Swiss climatologist, paleoclimatologist, and lead expert in polar sciences, received the Belgica prize.

Monday 19/12/2022 - Today, exactly 5 years ago, I started working as a freelance systems technician at the Princess Elisabeth station on Antarctica. For two months the station was my new home.

On Friday, December 16th, a new group arrived at PEA, including the first scientists of the season from the BAMM, HYPERNETS, and PEACE projects.

People from all around the world came to join the annual Arctic Futures Symposium in Brussels for its 13th edition on November 29th - 30th.

After the lead team’s successful preparations to start up all of the station’s systems, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica is now in full swing and ready to welcome more scientists in the coming week.

Following a smooth departure from Cape Town, the lead team for the 2022-23 austral summer research season arrived without incident at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica on the evening of Thursday, November 24th.

The mission of the lead team is starting up all of the station’s systems, including its renewable energy production and water production systems, clearing snow that accumulated around the station during the austral winter, restarting the station's water treatment unit and setting up scientific equipment for scientists who are working remotely in their office in Belgium - with constant access to data being gathered at the station.

The 13th edition of the Arctic Futures Symposium is rapidly approaching!

​The fourth edition of the Arctic Shorts Film Evening, which took place the evening of November 8th at the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, was again a big success.