Belgian Polar Platform - Polar Science

Project presentation

Antarctica phase VI (2006-2010)

Climate change
	HOLANT	Holocene climate variability and ecosystem change in coastal East and Maritime Antarctica	SD/CA/01A
	ASPI	Antarctic Subglacial Processes and Interactions: Role of Transition Zones in Ice Sheet Stability	SD/CA/02A
	BELCANTO 3	Integrated Study of Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry and Climate Interactions in the Anthropocene	SD/CA/03A
Biodiversity
	AMBIO	Antarctic Microbial Biodiversity: The importance of geographical and ecological factors	SD/BA/01
	BIANZO II	Biodiversity of three representative groups of the Antarctic Zoobenthos - Coping with Change	SD/BA/02

Antarctica phase V (2000-2005)

Climate and atmosphere
	LAQUAN	Late Quaternary climate history of coastal Antarctic environments: a multi-proxy approach	EV/01
	AMICS	Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics and climatic change: modelling and ice composition study	EV/08
	BELCANTO 2	Assessing the sensitivity of the Southern Ocean’s biological pump to climate change	EV/07
Aquatic biodiversity
	BIANZO	Biodiversity of 3 representative groups of Antarctic Zoobenthos	EV/24
	PELAGANT	Status, control and role of the pelagic diversity of the Austral Ocean	EV/30
Cluster
	BE-POLES: the Belgian Polar Research cluster

Antarctica phase IV (1997-2000)

Marine biota and Global Change:
	Meiobenthic biodiversity and fluxes within the Antarctic biogeochemical environment	A4/B01
	Ecofunctional biodiversity of benthic crustacean taxocoenoses in the Southern Ocean	A4/B02
	An integrated approach to assess carbon dynamics in the Southern Ocean
	I: New and export production II: Study and modelisation of the planktonic system III: Barite geochemistry IV: Air/sea exchanges V: 1D Modelling of the sea-ice and water column	A4/B11 A4/B12 A4/B13 A4/B14 A4/B15
	Response of the Southern Ocean global ecosystem to physical and trophic constraints
	I: Ecosystem functioning and modelling II: Physical modelling III: Role of the picophytoplankton	A4/B21 A4/B22 A4/B23
Dynamics of the Southern Ocean:
	Study of convective movements in the Southern Ocean	A4/H01
Palaeoenvironmental records:
	Mass balance of the Antarctic ice cap (a contribution to EPICA)	A4/E01
	EPICA basal ice - eastern Antarctica	A4/H02
	Dynamics of the Antarctic ice cap and climate changes (a contribution to EPICA)	A4/H03
	Antarctic shelf-slope dynamics: an innovative geophysical approach	A4/G01

Antarctica phase III (1993-1997)

Marine ecology and biogeochemistry
	Spatial and seasonal variability of the transport of biogenic compounds in the Southern Ocean
	Role of the meiobenthos in Antarctic ecosystems
	Control of the Antarctic pelagic ecosystem by higher trophic levels in relation to variations in environmental conditions
	Ecological modelling of the planktonic microbial food web
Protection of Marine Ecosystems
	Oil spill modelling for the Antarctic seas (OSMAS)
	Preparedness to oil spill pollution: a case study (in cooperation with BAS)
Ocean-cryosphere-atmosphere interactions
	Isotopic and chemical composition of Antarctic shelf ice: implications for global changes
	Formation of the Terra Nova Bay polynya and climatic implications
	Dynamics of the Antarctic ice cap and climatic changes
Sedementary palaeoenvironment
	Belgian contribution to the "Antarctic offshore acoustic stratigraphy project"

Belspo - BCCM

Stimulation Action of the use and collaboration with the Coordinated Belgian Collections of Microorganisms, BCCM (2005-2008)

Belspo - Bilaterial agreements

Glacier fluctuations and climatic change in South Siberia (1997-2000)

Belspo - SPSD II

MILMO

Modelling the evolution of climate and sea level over the third millenium; coupling the Antarctic and Greenland ice-sheet models with a global AOGCM of intermediate complexity (MILMO) (2000-2005)

Non-Belspo

ARENA	Design and construction of two small size telescopes in Antarctica (2006-2008)
CARBOOCEAN	Marine carbon sources and sinks assessment (2005-2009)
EUR-OCEANS	EUR-OCEANS Network of Excellence; WP on Biogeochemistry with focus on the Southern Ocean system (2005-2008)
Si-WEBS	Natural and anthropogenic modifications of the Si cycle along the land-ocean continuum: Worldwide Ecological, biogeochemical and Socio-economical consequences (2002-2006)
-	Basal Ice at Lake Vostok (2000-ongoing)
INTERICE	Inter disciplinary Ice tank Experiment (1998-ongoing)
BIFTeG	Basal Ice Facies of Temperate Glaciers (1997-ongoing)
ISMIce	Ice Shelf Marine Ice (1992-ongoing)
-	Ecological impacts of petroleum hydrocarbons on the Antarctic microbial loop. Evaluation of the efficiency of psychrophilic microorganisms in bioremediation treatment (2005-2009)
LIMNOPOLAR	Study of non-marine aquatic ecosystems in the polar zones (2004-2005)
CAPs	Study of the cold acclimation proteins (CAPs) produced by an Antarctic psychrophilic bacterium (Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis) induced by growth at low temperatures. (2004-2007)
-	Biophysical aspects of protein adaptation to extreme temperatures: activity-stability relationships in psychrophilic and thermophilic enzymes (2004-2007)
-	Cold-adapted xylanases and cross-linking enzymes in the food and feed industries (2003-2007)
SIBClim	Sea Ice Biogeochemistry in a CLimate change perspective
-	Selection of a psychrophilic bacterial starter for bioremediation of contaminated soils and waste-waters in winter (2003-2005)
HAUSGARTEN	The temporal variation in the meiobenthos along a bathymetrical gradient (‘Hausgarten’, Arctica): impact of climate oscillations (2002-2006)
-	Genome sequence of the psychrophilic Antarctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis (2002-2005)
CASES	Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES) on the thieme of microbial communities (2002-2006)
AMANDA	IceCube neutrinos telescopes (2000-2005)
EUR-OCEANS	EUR-OCEANS Network of Excellence; WP on Biogeochemistry with focus on the Southern Ocean system (2000-2005)
VERTIGO	Export of organic carbon from the oceanic surface mixed layer and mineralisation in the twilight zone (2000-2005)
IRONAGES	Iron Resources and oceanic nutrients-Advancement of Global Environment Simulations (2000-2003)
CARUSO	Carbon dioxide uptake by the Southern Ocean (CARUSO) (1998-2001)
EISMINT	European Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison (1992-1999)