RMI presents new report on (Belgian) climate

 On 15 October 2020, the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium has published his new report on climate. The report details the results of the most recent observations and of RMI's research on climate. The report aims to inform the scientific community, authorities and the general public on the current state of knowledge of the present and future climate in Belgium.  The report can be downloaded and is availabe in French and Dutch. 

Global strike for climate 24 April 2020

Although the COVID-19 serious crisis, the global climate challenge might not be forgotten. This Friday, there are several actions, for instance a livestream (youtube) and a webinar of climate experts Jean-Pascale van Ypersele and Sara Vicca and an online strike, organised by the Belgian klimaatcoalitie.  Information can be found on their website and their facebook page.

Short movie on CHASE

Nadine Matielli, Professeur in Gelogoy at ’ULB, presents in 'PITCH', an emission of TV and radio channel BX1, results of the Antarctic expedition, how particles samples have been taken and how they are analysed. You can watch the short movie here. 

A new season starts at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica

A new summer season with a Belgian Antarctic Research expedition (BELARE) is about to start. On 18 November, Stefania Gili and Preben Van Overmeiren left from Brussels in order to travel to the Belgian research station Princess Elisabeth in Antarctica. If weather conditions allow, they will arrive on 21 November at the station. They will stay until around 20 December 2019 in Antarctica. On our blog-subpage links to several blogs can be found where updates on the ongoing expedition will be posted.  You can also follow the general activities at Princess Elisabeth at the station website. On the Twitter account of Stefania you can also follow their activities. 

view to the Southeast from the station

Video on the CHASE Belare 2018-2019 campaign

Stefania Gili from the ULB made a video showing what she and Preben have done during their stay for CHASE at Princess Elisabeth station, explaining also how samples are collected and what will happen with them. Enjoy the video here.

Challenging trips to install further sampling sites

Stefania and Preben went last days to further sampling sites in order to recover samples installed last season, exchange them with new ones and in addition, installing another new site near the coast. Their posts on these expeditions should appear soon on their blog-posts: see Preben, Stefania. Again, we show some images already below:

 the Romnoes mountains from far

 The team

 the Utsteinen nunatak at Princess Elisabeth station

the field camp near the coast, together with the glaciologist team (see also their blog)

Installing a sample site at the plateau

Stefania and Preben went last Friday to the plateau in order to collect samples installed last season, install new collectors and go even further to install collectors at a new site. Read their story about this expedition at their blogs - the one of Preben and the one of Stefania. As an appetizer, below images from this expedition.