After a pre-route stage from Dumont D'Urville to Concordia, the team was able to stay 4 days on the Concordia base. This allowed them to embark the Italian colleagues and their scientific equipment, but also to make the last checks of the loads, the equipment and the configuration of the ...

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The EAIIST team is in the middle of a pre-routing to Concordia. This first stage covers more than 1100 km. On the first day, there are a few cracks to go around, but then it's flat calm. The rise on the plateau is very gradual, and the temperature decreases with ...

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We’ve made it to Cap Prudhomme, after leaving Hobart and spending one night at Mario Zucchelli station. We are already staying in the traverse caravan while everything is being prepared. The weather was good the first two days, and then a little windy and snowy earlier today, but nothing to ...

The 3rd and last EAIIST workshop before the start of the traverse was held on October 14 at the IGE, Grenoble. It brought together the field teams, scientific and technical but also the people involved in communication, from France or on the traverse.

Joël Savarino, CNRS Research Director and EAIIST Project Coordinator gave a public lecture at the BNP Paribas Foundation as part of the Climate Initiative conference cycle. It  took place on Thursday 4 October at 12:15 pm in the Glicenstein auditorium of BNP Paribas (14 rue Bergère Paris 9ème).

A meeting of partners was held on 22 and 23 October 2018 at the IGE. All the stages of the programme were reviewed, including the provisional timetable, the scientific activities planned, the organisation of the convoy and its operation, the sites to be studied and the personnel to be ...

The boxes are shipped to Brest, to the French Polar Institute IPEV, which takes care of them until their final destination. To compensate for any unpleasant unloading surprises due to sea ice or bad weather, the equipment is shipped 15 months in advance and will be stored in Dumont d'Urville ...

The EAIIST project obtains the YOPP label. YOPP for Year Of Polar Prediction is a global program under the aegis of the World Meteorological Organization whose objective is to concentrate and centralize all weather data on the polar regions and make them accessible and open.