Good
afternoon from Antarctica!
Today we
are officially taking our first day off. Thanks to the great weather conditions
we were able to complete almost all the essential tasks of this campaign. Most
of the sampling and the high resolution elevation models have been completed.
This is the first time such high resolution imagery has been taken consistently
for these sites! We are now off for a week and a half of least priority tasks
and packing. Being the third and last campaign of the MICROBIAN project, we have
quite some material that has to be sent back to Belgium.
Yesterday, we
went back to the Dry Valleys and while Quinten and Juri were busy mapping one
of our last sites, Valentina and Bea carried out the planned contamination
experiment. This experiment´s aim is to provide the scientific underpinning
for policy support related to the Committee on Environmental Protection of the
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), by assessing potential means
of cross-contamination of (alien) microorganisms between different ice-free
region.
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| Bea sampling Valentina´s boots |
The MICROBIAN team
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