Also this
season, we have a research expedition to Princess Elisabeth station. This time,
there are two colleagues from our CHASE project – Stefania of Université Libre
de Bruxelles and Preben of Ghent University – who will be at the research station from
mid-November to just before Christmas. They will not only be responsible for
the tasks of the CHASE project, but will also help with tasks for the AEROCLOUD project and with the radio soundings. From the first station team which arrived
begin of November, we heard that the station did not lose power over winter.
However, the satellite connection was lost mid-May. So, we are very curious
about the state of our instruments and if they indeed collected all the time
data. This would be great.
Therefore,
when Stefania and Preben arrive during next days at Princess Elisabeth station,
they will have a lot to do to verify the status of all experiments and to
prepare the experiments of this season. Besides the maintenance of the
Aerocloud instruments and the radio soundings, they will have to re-install the
sampling setup near the station for the active (with pumps) collection of
ambient particles for later chemical analysis on inorganic and organic components.
In addition to the active sampling which will be done only during austral
summer, there are samplers for the passive collection of ambient particles and
of volatile organic compounds (VOC). These passive sampling has been set up
last season by Christophe, Nadine and Alexander at five sites – in a transect from
near the plateau to the coast. The filters at these sites collected now nearly
a whole year ambient particles and VOCs. Stefania and Preben will visit these sites,
collect the samples and place new filters for a next year.
In this blog we will keep you updated on the
work, life, experiences and experiments of our CHASE team at Utsteinen
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