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Here I write about climate change and Polar Regions - but also about anything else that strikes my fancy.
I'll try to post here as often as I can. But keep in mind I'm a very busy guy, so please cut me some slack if you don't hear from me for a while!
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Critical situation at the PEA
Posted on the 31.12.2011 by Michel Brent
The Ice Class vessel Mary Arctica, which has to bring all the material (food and equipment) at the PEA station for the rest of the season, is blocked by the ice. She should have arrived on 24 December. The situation is more than serious...
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The Convoy of Happiness
Posted on the 17.12.2011 by Alain Hubert
I would like to return to the unfolding of our last scientific mission to the Princess Ragnild coast. Simply because it typifies so well the very essence of my commitment in the Antarctic : to help the people to better understand the importance of scientific researches in the polar regions.
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Two missions : two successes
Posted on the 16.12.2011 by Alain Hubert
The new BELARE season of the Belgian PEA Station in Utsteinen/Antarctica has been opened on 16 November 2011 with 11 people disembarking on the site. Since then, we have conducted two important missions. Both were completely successful.
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Seasonal Reopening of the PEA - Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
Posted on the 20.11.2011 by Michel Brent
Alain Hubert and a first team of ten have arrived at Utsteinen. Like every autumn, at this period of the year, they have re-opened the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica belgian station. Except for a gigantic amount of snow accumulated during the austral winter, everything was OK.
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The right choices, the right decisions
Posted on the 28.03.2011 by Alain Hubert
Now at the end of its second operating season, the overall assessment that we can draw from the early days of the Princess Elisabeth station is more than positive. For instance, we now know that we made the right choices for the base and the decisions taken were also the right ones.
