The 2023-2024 season is off to an active start as the Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition (BELARE) lead team arrived at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station!
On the evening of November 6th, the first members of the 2023-2024 BELARE team arrived at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station after a smooth departure from Cape Town, South Africa. After being inactive for eight months, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station joyfully welcomed both familiar and fresh faces!
The lead team has begun their work, clearing away the accumulated winter snow and switching the station into active mode, which includes restarting the station's water production and treatment systems and preparing vehicles for field expeditions. Powered by 100% renewable wind and solar energy, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica will be ready to welcome the first group of scientists in early December.
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The 14th edition of the Arctic Futures Symposium is rapidly approaching!
Following a series of successful editions over the past few years, we are pleased to announce the return of the Arctic Future Symposium this fall, taking place at TownHall Europe, not far from the European Parliament in Brussels.
Between November 28th and 29th, the symposium will bring together experts from different disciplines and parts of the Arctic, offering a platform for lively discussions on key topics chosen by Arctic stakeholders.
The topics for this year's Symposium will focus on:
For more details about the symposium programme, speakers, and registration, please consult the Arctic Futures Symposium website
Come join us !
Please don't hesitate to contact us at events@polarfoundation.org if you have any questions about the event.
The International Polar Foundation is excited to announce that Natacha Lippens and Michael Saverys have joined its board of directors this month.
Natacha Lippens
With a background in biology, zoology, and ecology, and experience on boards of organisations, not to mention a strong passion for science and sustainability, Natacha Lippens is a welcome addition to the foundation’s board.
Natacha obtained her bachelor’s degree with honours in zoology from the University of Edinburgh. She then obtained a Master of Science (MSc) degree in environmental technology, with a specialisation in ecological management at Imperial College London, focusing on the intersection of technology, innovation, and sustainability. She also obtained a dual degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA) from both INSEAD, one of the world's leading business schools, and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Natacha has had a multidisciplinary career working as a scientist, businesswoman, and consultant. She has worked as a marine biologist in the field of pollution prevention and control, advising on clean-up and supporting the clean-up of marine pollution incidents worldwide.
She sits on numerous boards of directors and advisory boards in Belgium and abroad. She is also actively involved in several impact investment funds and ventures.
She is passionate about sustainability and education, and believes that boards have a strategic role to play in the climate transition.
“As a biologist having lived abroad for 22 years, I am particularly happy to be joining the board of such an internationally renowned Belgian institution as the International Polar Foundation, notably working with the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, which is a symbol of endurance, vision, European innovation, and of international cooperation in scientific research,” declared Natacha. “I am very much looking forward to working with my fellow directors on the important topics of enabling polar science as well as promoting Belgian technology and the sciences.”
“We’re happy to add someone to our board with such a diverse board experience, scientific knowledge, and a passion for sustainability as Natacha,” stated Alain Hubert, Founder and President of the International Polar Foundation. “We look forward to her contributing fresh, new ideas to the foundation.”
In addition to serving on the board of directors of the International Polar Foundation, Natacha is also currently:
Michael Saverys
Michael Saverys brings not only years of experience as a businessman to the board of the foundation, but also a passion for taking action to find sustainable solutions to address the issue of climate change.
He is currently Commercial Director at CMB Group, which is specialised in international shipping. He follows his father Marc Saverys, who was a member of the Strategic Council of the Polar Secretariat.
Michael studied business administration at UBI in Brussels before starting his career in trading grains at Noble Group in 2005. In 2007 he was headhunted by Merril Lynch and worked for them as dry freight commodity trader until 2009. Following this, he joined CMB Group as Commercial Director for their dry bulk division, Bocimar.
“I’m very excited to be part of the foundation’s board of directors,” Michael explained.
“And like Alain Hubert, I’m someone who doesn’t just talk about addressing climate change; I also like doing something about it,” he continued. “I’m very excited to be part of a foundation that not only talks the talk but walks the walk.”
CMB Group is the biggest energy transition player in the shipping industry. The company is currently developing hydrogen and ammonia solutions to greatly reduce the carbon footprint of not only the shipping industry but also the mining and trucking industries.
“I think CMB Group can learn a lot from what IPF is doing in Antarctica. But IPF in turn can learn from our activities at CMB Group,” Michael added. “I’m excited to see what we can accomplish.”
We look forward to working together with the two of them on developing different projects in the coming years !
The International Polar Foundation had a very strong presence at the 10th edition of the annual Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland last week. Representatives from IPF managed a booth and participated in a number of panel discussions during the three days of the popular annual conference.
Featured speakers at breakout sessions
IPF Managing Director Nicolas Van Hoecke and IPF Systems Engineer Aymar de Lichtervelde, along with IPF Board Member, Former EU Arctic Ambassador, and Egmont Institute Senior Fellow Marie-Anne Coninsx took part in breakout sessions at the assembly.
On Thursday, October 19th Marie-Anne Coninsx led a panel discussion entitled, “Non-Arctic States: Assets for the Region” in which representatives from several Arctic Council observer states and states with interests in the Arctic gave their views on how they can contribute to the work of the Arctic Council and improving the quality of life of Arctic residents.
Then on Friday, October 20th, Marie-Anne Coninsx and Nicolas Van Hoecke participated in a panel discussion entitled "The Like-Minded, the Willing the Capable...the Belgians." This panel discussed Belgium's significant contributions to polar research since the 19th century, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (the world’s first zero-emission polar research station), the new Belgian polar research vessel, the Belgica, and Belgium's Arctic policy currently under development.
Also on Friday, Aymar de Lichtervelde spoke about deploying and operating renewable energy and water treatment technologies at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica during a breakout session organized by US polar logistics firm Batelle and Icelandic vehicle firm Arctic Trucks.
Princess Elisabeth Antarctica featured at popular exhibition booth
During the entire conference, IPF also had a booth next to the entrance of the main auditorium at Harpa (where the Arctic Circle Assembly is held every year), exhibiting the green technologies used at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station.
The booth highlighted the station’s new water treatment system (which recycles and reuses all wastewater at the station), as well as how renewable wind and solar energy sources are used to power the station. It also featured a scale model of PEA on Utsteinen Ridge in East Antarctica and a 3D-printed replica of PEA’s new water treatment system.
The booth also featured a few Belgian icons thanks to Jan Bayart, the Belgian Ambassador to Norway and Iceland: three Smurfs in the colours of the Belgian flag!
Many assembly participants visited the booth over the three days of the conference. Everyone was impressed with the solutions used at the station to significantly cut its environmental footprint. Visitors included entrepreneurs, investors, and most importantly residents of remote Arctic communities that need to ship in fuel, food, and even water on a regular basis at great cost. Having solutions such as a circular water treatment system and a smart grid that manages renewable wind and solar energy production could be very beneficial to remote Arctic communities.
It is with great sorrow that IPF mourns the loss of Alain De Waele, Member of the Board of the International Polar Foundation, and long-time supporter of the activities of the Foundation and the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station.
Born in Antwerp in 1949, Alain De Waele began his career in the late 1970s at Interbrew (later InBev and then AB InBev) in Leuven, Belgium. During his career at the company, he worked in various commercial positions, rising up the ranks until he became Vice-President of External Relations in the 1990s.
In 1999 Alain De Waele was selected by InBev (as the company was known at the time) to become Secretary General of the InBev Baillet Latour Fund (later known simply as Les Fonds Baillet Latour). He was ideal for this position due to his friendly and outgoing nature, his extensive network of contacts, and most importantly his passion for philanthropy. In this capacity at the Baillet Latour Fund, he dedicated his life to charitable work, supporting medical research, the arts and culture, and, with the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, polar research.
Alain de Waele became interested in the work of Alain Hubert and the International Polar Foundation when he met Alain Hubert in 1999 at a conference in Deauville, France.
When the Princess Elisabeth Project was launched in 2004, Alain De Waele immediately stepped in to help. The Baillet Latour Fund financed all the scientific research equipment needed to equip the station on the advice of researchers consulted. He always felt that the Princess Elisabeth Station was an exceptional advertisement for Team Belgium, and was always ready to promote the exceptional qualities of Belgian research.
Alain De Waele had the initiative to set up the Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship, along the lines of other awards made by the Baillet Latour Funds, with the first award being made in 2008. The Baillet Latour Antarctic Fellowship was a bi-annual Fellowship of 150,000 Euros managed by the International Polar Foundation to support the research of early career polar scientists interested in conducting scientific research at, or in the vicinity of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. During the 12 years the Fellowship was in place, the award was able to assist several promising young researchers from Belgium and other countries in the fields of glaciology, microbiology, and Earth sciences.
In 2009, he was present at the inauguration of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, and he remained very implicated in future plans, agreeing to find ways of financing the research and development initiatives that the Foundation wanted to put in place to support the development of new technologies at the PEA Station and further afield.
In 2012, Alain De Waele helped to organise the Gala event celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the creation of the IPF, and he remained always present and supportive in the next ten years. He remained Vice-President of External Relations at InBev until 2007, after which he became Secretary-General of the Baillet Latour Fund full-time as the Funds activities expanded. The Funds work became more well-known thanks to his extensive outreach efforts and active engagement with stakeholders.
Due to declining health, he was unfortunately forced to step down from his position as Secretary General of the Baillet Latour Fund in 2019. He remained a Member of the Board (Administrator) of the Fund under the Presidency of Thomas Leysen.
The International Polar Foundation extends its sincere condolences to his family and his many friends.
The International Polar Foundation is deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of our organisation’s co-founders, Hugo Decleir, an internationally respected glaciologist and Professor Emeritus at the Vrij Universitiet Brussel (VUB).
Professor Decleir had a distinguished career in glaciology, and participated in several expeditions to Antarctica with the Belgian, Dutch, South African and Japanese Antarctic Expeditions. He was also active in Greenland.
He published prolifically, focusing on topics ranging from the mass balance of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, mountain glaciers, paleoclimatology, the contribution of melting glaciers to sea level rise, remote sensing to monitor environmental change, and the cryosphere’s role in the Earth’s climate system.
Passionate about raising awareness and educating the public about the effects of climate change on the polar regions, he would often document his research expeditions in photo and film.
He also had a keen interest in the history of Belgian polar exploration and polar research. He co-authored a number of books, including The Belgica Expedition Centennial: Perspectives on Antarctic Science and History on the centennial of the first scientific research expedition to Antarctica aboard the Belgica in 1897-99, and Roald Amundsen’s Belgica Diary, which related the famous Norwegian explorer’s perspective on the Belgian expedition of 1897-1898, where he served as an officer of the vessel’s crew.
His passion for raising awareness about the importance of polar research compelled him to found the International Polar Foundation in 2002, with Alain Hubert and Professor André Berger.
It was on a trip to the North Pole with Alain Hubert, Professor André Berger and Nighat Amin in 2003 that Hugo first brought up the question of re-building a station in Antarctica for the Belgian research community. He felt that it was time to return to the Antarctic as the Belgian researchers were very competent but relied heavily on the hospitality of other nations. By building a new station, Belgian research would be greatly encouraged and could offer to other nations the possibility to access areas that were very little researched.
This inspired the construction of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, the world’s first zero emissions polar research station. Hugo proudly took part in the inauguration of the station in February 2009 and was much moved to see the realization of his wish.
He also served on the jury of the Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship, which provided a 150,000 Euro prize to young polar scientists conducting research in the vicinity of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. He was always a source of inspiration and encouragement to the younger generation of scientists and he will be fondly remembered by many.
Our sincere condolences go to his family, his friends and his colleagues in the polar research community.
The Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (Classe des Sciences) has announced that it has selected Alain Hubert, Founder and President of the International Polar Foundation to receive one of the two Belgica Medals the body plans to award for the prize. The Belgica Medal is awarded every 5 years. This will be the twelfth time that it will be awarded since it was set up.
Alain Hubert will receive the prestigious medal alongside Dr Jérôme Chappellaz French glaciologist teaching at the EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), at a ceremony to be held at the Royal Academy in Brussels, in March 2024.
The Belgica Medal is awarded to Alain Hubert in recognition of his exceptional contribution to research in the polar regions, in particular his record-breaking polar expeditions, the establishment of important scientific research programmes and the construction of the world’s first Zero Emissions polar research station, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica.
The construction of the station has breathed new life into Belgian polar research, and the Station regularly attracts large number of scientists from around the World, who work in collaboration with the Belgian research community.
Dr Chappellaz is awarded the medal for his analysis of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, which have made it possible for scientists to reconstruct atmospheric methane concentrations over the last 800,000 years.
On being asked to comment, Mr Hubert said “It has been an honour and a privilege to have been able to contribute to the tradition of Belgian polar exploration and international polar research begun by Adrien de Gerlache, and to have helped Belgian polar researchers to benefit from a platform that fully exhibits their very considerable scientific prowess.”
The medal award which was established in 1904 by royal Statute, has since 1963, been awarded every five years in recognition of the work of polar scientists active on the Antarctic Continent.
The Belgica Medal was initially created to commemorate the first overwintering expedition to Antarctica aboard The Belgica research vessel, led by Belgian Navy Lieutenant Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery in 1897-99. This was also the first international research expedition to Antarctica. The first recipients were members of the expedition crew and the diverse team of scientists who contributed to the quantity of scientific information collected during that voyage and during the year spent in the ice.
In the years since, the Belgica Medal has been awarded to a variety of researchers from Belgium and other countries. Notable winners include the Belgian Antarctic research expedition of 1957-58 (which began construction of Belgium’s King Baudouin research station), Edgard Picciotto (Geologist from the Université libre de Bruxelles who took part in several Belgian and American Antarctic research expeditions in the 1950s and 60s), Claude Lorius (Glaciologist and former President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research), David John Drewry (former Director of the British Antarctic Survey), Dominique Raynaud (Glaciologist at the Centre national de recherche scientifique in France and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner), and Thomas Stocker (climatologist at the University of Bern).
The call for submissions for the second annual Laurence Trân Arctic Futures Award have been opened in anticipation of the 14th annual Arctic Futures Symposium, which will take place on Tuesday, November 28th and Wednesday, November 29th at Town Hall Europe in Brussels' EU Quarter.
Managed by IPF and funded by theTrân Family Foundation, Consisting of 7500 Euros awarded every November at the annual Arctic Futures Symposium in Brussels, the Laurence Trân Arctic Futures Award aims to help a young entrepreneur or startup to move their fledgeling business to the next level.
The winner will be invited to attend the Arctic Futures Symposium in person to present their project and take part in a panel discussion.
After its successful first iteration at the last Arctic Futures Symposium in November 2022, which saw innovative Swedish startup Containing Greens SE win for its re-use of heat from data centres to grow local produce and therefore cutting the local carbon footprint of food production, the the International Polar Foundation and the Trân Family Foundation have opened a call for applications to young entrepreneurs living in the Arctic for the 2nd edition of the award.
A page on the Arctic Futures Symposium website has been set up to give applicants all the information they need to apply for the award. Anyone living in the Arctic regions described on the application page are eligible to apply. Applicants must be 35 years old or younger and must be registered as living in one of the Arctic regions identified on the page.
A jury of experts from across the Arctic from organisations specialised in fostering young entrepreneurs will select the winning candidate based on criteria outlined on the application page, including the project’s environmental sustainability, how it helps its local Arctic community and social sustainability, how innovate the project is, how mature and scalable the business idea is, and to what extent the award will have a positive effect on the startup and the local Arctic community.
In addition to a press release going out, IPF's Arctic stakeholder partners, who play an active role in organising and supporting the Arctic Futures Symposium, are spreading information about the prize to their networks in Arctic communities in their home countries.
We look forward to learning about your innovative ideas! from Arctic residents.
A peak in the Sør Rondane Mountains now bears the name of Professor Tony Van Autenboer, a geologist and leader of many Belgian geological research expeditions between 1958 and 1970.
Born in 1932, Professor Van Autenboer was instrumental in convincing Belgian authorities to take part in the International Geophysical Year (IGY) 1957-58, which saw several nations from across the world take part in a concentrated effort to study the Polar Regions. His efforts also led to Belgium becoming one of the original 12 signatories of the Antarctic Treaty, which designated the continent as a place for peaceful scientific research.
Not long after, Professor Van Autenboer led a number of geological research teams conducting research in the Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica, where Belgium’s first research station, the King Baudoin, was built in 1958 during the IGY. With a geophysical observatory set up at the King Baudoin station, Professor Van Autenboer and his team were able to conduct important geophysical research in a part of Antarctica that had not been previously studied over several seasons from the late 1950s until 1970.
In 2004, Alain Hubert and the International Polar Foundation asked Professor Van Autenboer to assist them in preparing the survey expedition to find a location to build the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (PEA). He sat with the expedition team beforehand, going over maps and photos to select promising sites based on his intimate knowledge of the area.
“He helped us to choose the site of the PEA, and gave us precious insight into what we should expect from each location that we surveyed in 2004, ” recalled Nighat Amin, who took part in the 2004 survey mission and is in charge of logistics management and environmental impact reporting for Belgian Antarctic Research Expeditions (BELARE) today.
As the world’s first and only zero-emission polar research station, PEA has become a significant point of pride for Belgium.
“Tony was someone who represented a link between the past and future,” explained Ms. Amin. “Following his death in September 2022, we felt it was only natural to name a peak in the Sør Rondane Mountains after him - a peak on which we’ve installed a communications relay station. It represents the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next in honour of all that he did for us in advising and supporting our activities.”
The radio relay that sits atop Van Autenboer Peak allows automatic weather stations in the vicinity of the peak to send data directly to the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. From the station, the weather station data is sent to Europe and is available to all who are interested in using it.
For more than ten years, meteorite scientists from Belgian universities have been using the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station as a base from which to search for meteorites, which can give clues to the origins of our solar system.
During the most recent 2022-23 austral summer research season, a team of researchers led by Vinciane Debaille from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) found several meteorites, including a very rare meteorite weighing 7.6 kg!
In this interview, Dr Debaille discusses what she and her fellow researchers from Switzerland, Japan and the US were able to accomplish during their most recent trip to Antarctica.
Is the focus of the Belgian Antarctic Meteorites and Micrometeorites (BAMM) project to look for meteorites in very specific areas?
Yes. Although our focus is on Antarctica, we’re really only interested in its blue ice fields, which is where meteorites can most easily be found as they will be concentrated by ice movement. A very famous one is located south of the Princess Elisabeth station: the Nansen Blue Ice Field. We’ve now been there three times and we’ve found more than 600 meteorites there, so it was very productive.
The only problem was to find new places. For that, we've been using a map that Veronica Tollenaar created last year. Veronica is a PhD student in glaciology at the ULB. Her work focuses on machine learning to identify possible areas where blue ice fields might concentrate meteorites. According to this map, there exist a few zones surrounding the Belgian station.
The idea of this most recent mission was to collect meteorites, but more specifically to identify new areas where there is a high probability to find them. We looked at three main areas during our most recent trip. Two of them had no meteorites, but one did. Overall, it's been a good tool to use.
Is this the first season in Antarctica for the BAMM project?
It’s a bit complicated to say, because BAMM is the name of the current research project. But under the BELARE campaigns over the years, we've had many projects that have looked for meteorites in Antarctica in collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. These campaigns, which have been going on for 12 years now, have included several different projects (e.g. SAMBA, BAMM, DESIRED, and now ULTIMO). That's why I prefer to refer to these expeditions as BELARE meteorite expeditions.
At the beginning of the most recent season’s campaign, you didn’t find many meteorites. When did your trips start to become successful?
We found four meteorites in the vicinity of the Niels Larsen Blue Ice Field. Then when we went back to the station, we looked in two other preselected places, and found nothing. Finally, on the last day of our campaign, we went back to the Niels Larsen Blue Ice Field by another route, and this is where we found the big 7.6 kg meteorite. It happened on the last day, at the last hour, just like in a fairytale!
Will the big meteorite stay in Belgium to be analysed?
Yes. It will be analysed at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Since we brought it back frozen, we plan to unfreeze it in a vacuum so that we prevent liquid water from penetrating into the meteorite. By using a vacuum, we basically eliminate any trace of ice and snow, as the ice sublimes directly into water vapour in a vacuum.
Does the large meteorite you found come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter?
Yes. Almost all meteorites we find on Earth come from the asteroid belt, with the remaining few coming from Mars and the Moon, usually as a result of an impact on the surface of the planet or moon, which then ejects debris into space.
How old are most meteorites that you find?
They would be around 4.5 billion years - almost as old as the solar system. That's why we use them to understand the formation of the solar system.
Is there any way to determine the exact age of a meteorite?
Yes, we do so by measuring isotopes. This is what I do in my lab. We then use natural radioactivity to date to sample.
Aside from the very large meteorite, did you collect other meteorites this past season?
Yes, we collected five in total. It may not seem like a lot, but it is still much more productive than any other places in the world. The point was also to identify places where we can come back and search more.
One of the meteorites we collected is very beautiful. You can see its flowing lines. When a meteorite is plummeting towards Earth, it melts, and sometimes this melt creates flowing lines that are preserved. The big one is also very beautiful and rare as well.
What kind of logistical support did you get when you were in the field?
From PEA, we had two different kinds of logistical support. Firstly, since we went to zones that had never been explored, we needed help with the route. Alain Hubert helped us by opening the routes and finding safe places. Because of the potential of coming across crevasses, heading out to unverified areas could be very dangerous. Secondly, PEA helped us by providing camping equipment, snowmobiles, and then, of course, the station itself.
Will your team go back to Antarctica next year?
Probably not next year because it's really demanding and difficult to be away every year for that long. But who knows? Maybe in two years.
Will the BAMM project continue?
The BAMM project is now over and its successor, the DESIRED project, will continue the story. That’s why it’s easier to call it “BELARE meteorite expedition”.
The latest edition of the annual Arctic Futures Symposium organised by the International Polar Foundation and its many Arctic stakeholder partners will take place in early December. Register to secure your spot!
IPF is sad to learn of the passing of glaciologist Professor Roland Souchez, who made important contributions to the fields of glaciology and climate science during his decades-long career.
To celebrate the opening of the exhibit “To the Antarctic: Belgica’s Polar Pioneers”, Antwerp resident and LEGO enthusiast Daniel Vermeir built an amazing scale model of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, the world’s first and to date only zero-emission polar research station.
To celebrate the opening of the exhibit “To the Antarctic: Belgica’s Polar Pioneers”, Antwerp resident and LEGO enthusiast Daniel Vermeir built an amazing scale model of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, the world’s first and to date only zero-emission polar research station.
The International Polar Foundation has been part of creating a fascinating new exhibition on Belgium's contributions to Antarctic exploration and research, opening at the MAS Museum in Antwerp starting from Friday, June 21st.
After much anticipation, on Thursday, June 20th, the exhibition “To the Antarctic: Belgica’s Polar Pioneers” at Antwerp’s MAS Museum officially opened its doors.
On Tuesday, June 11th, IPF Founder and President Alain Hubert was invited to participate in the “Debate with Ambassadors” panel at European Sustainable Energy Week 2024 (EUSEW24).
At a ceremony held the afternoon of Monday, June 10th at The Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium, Alain Hubert, Founder and President of the International Polar Foundation, received the prestigious Belgica Prize alongside French glaciologist Professor Jérôme Chappellaz.
At a ceremony held the afternoon of Monday, June 10th at The Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium, Alain Hubert, Founder and President of the International Polar Foundation, received the prestigious Belgica Prize alongside French glaciologist Professor Jérôme Chappellaz.
Alain Hubert, Founder and President of the International Polar Foundation, is set to receive the Belgica Prize at a ceremony to be held at the Royal Academy for Sciences and the Arts of Belgium the afternoon of Monday, June 10th, alongside French glaciologist Dr Jérôme Chappellaz.
Alain Hubert, Founder and President of the International Polar Foundation, is set to receive the Belgica Prize at a ceremony to be held at the Royal Academy for Sciences and the Arts of Belgium the afternoon of Monday, June 10th, alongside French glaciologist Dr Jérôme Chappellaz.
For the 3rd year in a row, entrepreneurs 35 or under based in the Arctic are invited to submit an application for the annual Laurence Trân Arctic Futures Award.
The International Polar Foundation and its many Arctic stakeholder partners are happy to announce that the 15th annual Arctic Futures Symposium will take place on December 2nd-3rd at the Residence Palace in Brussels.
