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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!

  • A snow melter in action the second day of the team arrival

    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.

  • Reconnaissance survey towards the Antarctic Plateau

    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.

  • Polar research in a sea of white

    Princess Elisabeth Station: All Going According to Plan

    Posted on the 09.02.2011 by Alain Hubert

    Between November and February, I usually don’t publish much news on my website. This is due to the fact that, at that time, I am on an assignment at the Princess Elisabeth Station. And that all the news concerning my activities is published in detail on the website dedicated to the station. I’m nevertheless benefiting from

  • IPF team and scientists are back to Princess Elisabeth Station Utsteinen

    Back to Princess Elisabeth Station, Utsteinen, Antarctica

    Posted on the 06.11.2010 by Michel Brent

    Last Friday (5 November), Alain Hubert left Brussels and IPF headquarters for CapeTown where he will be soon ready to fly to Utsteinen/Antarctica and open the Princess Elisabeth Station for another Belare season.

  • A. Hubert at the Collège du Biéreau

    Alain Hubert inaugurates New Building for the Collège du Biéreau

    Posted on the 22.10.2010 by Michel Brent

    The president of the International Polar Foundation and famous polar explorer Alain Hubert attended the inauguration of the new “Métis” building at the Collège du Biéreau in Louvain-la-Neuve on October 8th.

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