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Pictured here are a number of IPF engineers and scientists from various institutions that all partook in 'Live from Antarctica' a webinar organized with the University of Colorado at Boulder and some other schools that allowed scientists to talk about the research they are carrying out, as well as allowed the engineers an opportunity to share the renewable aspects (energy production and water treatment) that the station itself is notorious for. 

The Princess Elisabeth Antarctic polar research station is run completely on renewable energy sources. Nearly 70% of total energy needs is supplied by our wind turbines. However, thankfully the wind isn't always blowing which allows time to service and carry out necessary maintenance to ensure that these windmills continue to reliably deliver a fossil free source of energy. 

2 proud IPF system engineers happily posing in front of the newly completed water treatment system. 

During the 2023-24 BELARE season, Dr Valentina Savaglia from the University from the University of Sevilla samples microbes from open top chambers for the BELSPO-sponsored ExPoSoils project, which seeks to understand how microbial communities might be affected by climate change.

Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition scientis Kai Lu was generous enough to grant an interview about their work aboard the Snow Eagle aircraft which fly's with high precision instruments along the grounding line around Antarctica, as part of the greater RINGS project. 

This image of the setting sun was taken around midnight by Perseus, some 60 km from the Princess Elisabeth station. 

PEA team accompanied with film team from Eric Goens enjoying dinner and discussions at the Perseus Airstrip. 

Visible here is a big halo surrounding the sun while setting over Sør Rondane mountains in Antarctica. A halo is a ring of light that forms around the sun or moon as the light refracts off ice crystals that are present in a thin veil of cirrus clouds suspended in the atmosphere. 

One of our science technicians, Simon Steffen is shown here performing the annual service of one the automatic weather stations (AWS) that make up the PEACE (Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Climate Experiment) Network. One of 6 AWS that are spread out of a nearly 300km transect, from the coast to the Antarctic plateua.