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A view down inside a snow core borehole take near PEA.

ULB sceintist Sarah Wauthy and field guide Sebastian Corret prepare a snow core taken near PEA for the PASPARTOUT project, which is looking at the atmospheric transport of various particles from the the mid-latitudes to Antarctica.

Sarah Wauthy (ULB) poses with particle sampler installed on the PEA’s south scientific shelter for Ghent University as part of the PASPARTOUT project. 

Field guide Sebastian Corret helops ULB resaercher Sarah Wauthy store snow samples taken from a trench dug near PEA for the PASPARTOUT project. The snow samples will be analysed in the glaciology lab at the ULB once they arrive back in Belgium after the season.

Sebastian Corret helps ULB reasercher Sarah Wauthy store snow samples taken from a trench dug near L0 Ice Rise at the coast for the PASPARTOUT project.

Sarah Wauthy (ULB) poses with the Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) automatic sampler installed at the Queen Maud Land coast for the PASPARTOUT project (UGent).

ULB Scientist Sarah Wauthy and field guide Sebastian Corret take a shallow snow core at L0 Ice Rise for the PASPARTOUT project.

Sarah Wauthy from the Université Libre de Bruxelles taking snow samples from a snow pit she dug in the field for the PASPARTOUT project.

All equipment for manually collecting snow samples on the expedition is prepared and will later be shipped back to Belgium for analysis.