The (non)polar heroes...
(or how living during 15 months on Kerguelen islands)


- You can work on your scientific program (see also "in the sea"),

      

    

- picture 1, 2, 3 : go down, take of and receipt of the plancton sample of the "bongo" net (mesozooplancton < to 1 cm, copepoda...)
- picture 4, 5, 6 : go down and take of of the "omori" net (macrozooplancton > to 1 cm, amphipoda, euphausiacea...)
- photo 7 : evacuation by siphon of the to much water to treat the plancton samples
- picture 8 : preparing the CTDprobe (conductivity/salinity, temperature and density/deep data)
- pictures 9, 10, 11 : preparing the "Niskin" bottles to take some seawater samples
- picture 12 : seawater filtration system

- you can work on other scientifc programs ;

  

- picture 1, 2, 3 : no missunderstanding ! I just catch this wandering albatross chick to put a ID ring on it (G. Doligez, Kerguelen 1995)
- picture 4 : preparing to count and weight petrel chicks on Mayes island (P. Bocher, Kerguelen 1995)
- picture 5 : divers before fishing some sea-worms and sea-urchins for science 


- you can make journey on the archipelago,

     


   
- photo 1 : walking in all weather (G. Marty, Kerguelen 1995)
- photo 2 : sometime (rarely), taking short break to contemplate the landscape (H. Carentz, Kerguelen 1995)
- photo 3 : taking some photos
- photo 4 : having interesting meeting
- photo 5 : when you stop at a shanty, you take care of your poor foots (P. Bocher, Kerguelen 1995)
- photo 6 : you can go to history location
- photos 7, 8, 9 et 10 : group photos in Port Christmas, Mont Campbell, Port Douzième and cap Ratmanoff (photo 8 P. Lesbros, Kerguelen 1995)

- You can stay on the base, where living is fun,

  

- photos 1 et 2 : biologists making their National Service (conscription), behind the base et in an edge
- photo 3 : the 45th mission in Kerguelen