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Quinten Vanhellemont from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences is pictured here in front of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station. He has been coming to Antarctica and working on various projects, most recently as part of the EXPOSOILS research team as well as installing and maintaining hyperspectral cameras for a University of Maryland lead project. 

This Automatic Weather Station (AWS) is called PE-BLU because it was originally installed in 2013 at the blue ice region some 60 km from the Princess Elisabeth Research Station. This location is now where the Perseus International Airfield is located. This station has been reliably collecting data on various weather parameters for the past 11 years, and still going strong!

A scientist installing his SKYCAM instrument on top of the south science shelter at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. 

Sibylle Boxho a Phd student from the University of Brussels is seen here working in the annex of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. She is examining all the various rocks that she found on a nunatak in close proximity to the station. 

The Clouds to Ground project is run by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Researchers from the EPFL have installed several remote sensing station in the vicinity of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Research Station.

PhD student Armin Sigmund heads out into the field to check on a remote sensing station for the From Clouds to Ground: Snow Deposition in Extreme Environment project of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL).

PhD student Armin Sigmund performs maintenance on a remote sensing station for the From Clouds to Ground: Snow Deposition in Extreme Environment project of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL).

Armin Sigmund sets up a wind turbine to help power a remote sensing station that collects data for the From Clouds to Ground project with help from IPF scientific support staff.

PhD student Armin Sigmund, who works at the CRYOS Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), prepares for his field expedition to check on a remote sensing station for the From Clouds to Ground: Snow Deposition in Extreme Environment project.