Scientists head to Antarctica to study snow and icecaps

EPFL scientists will soon be heading off to Antarctica, where they will spend four months collecting reams of meteorological data at Australia's Davis research station. You can follow their progress on the school's blog: EPFL Out There. A post-doc researcher and two PhD students, all in environmental engineering, will spend the months of November 2018 to February 2019 at Australia's Davis research station on the Antarctic coast. They will set up a weather station and take samples to better understand the unique phenomena related to snowfall and to snowflake sublimation by polar winds. Throughout the experience, the scientists will post regular updates on EPFL Out There, a blog devoted entirely to EPFL research expeditions: #SnowInAntarctica . Very few hydrometeorological data have been collected on Antarctica, but this expedition will change that. It will indirectly help measure the effects of climate change in this region by examining the behavior of the snowfall that creates icecaps.