Seminar by Coline Bouchayer, Doctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Geosciences.
"Field work and overwintering in Antarctica"
Concordia Research Station is a French-Italian research facility that was built 3,233 m (2.0 mi) above sea level at a location called Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica. It is located 1,100 km (680 mi) inland from the French research station at Dumont D'Urville and the closest station is Vostok (Russia) at 560 km (350 mi) away. The facility is also located within Australia's claim on Antarctica, the Australian Antarctic Territory.
Concordia Station is the third permanent, all-year research station on the Antarctic Plateau besides Vostok Station (Russian) and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (U.S.) at the Geographic South Pole.
It is jointly operated by scientists from France and Italy and regularly hosts ESA scientists because it represents a close analog to what could be a station on Mars (dry air, hypoxia, total isolation).
During winter, 13 people take care about running scientific experiments in glaciology, chemistry of the atmosphere, meteorology, seismology, space weather, astronomy, magnetism and human body as well as making technique maintenance for electricity and water production.
About the seminar:
This seminar is offered by the Section for Geography and Hydrology at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo. The seminar is announced as a lunch seminar so bring your lunch if you want to.
Everyone is welcome, and especially students.
The lunch seminar team.