site.btaBulgarian Scientists from 32nd Antarctic Expedition Take Field Samples on Deception Island

On January 13, a team of Bulgarian scientists, including Prof. Eliza Uzunova (ichthyologist and hydrobiologist), Assoc. Prof. Lyubomir Kenderov (hydrobiologist), Prof. Ralitsa Sabeva (geologist), and Assoc. Prof. Raina Hristova (marine geologist), managed to collect samples of volcanic ash and pumice on Deception Island. Field samples of snow and ice were also collected, which will be examined in Bulgaria for the presence of microplastics.

Unloading of equipment for the Spanish base on the island continued until the evening, after which the Bulgarian ship returned to Livingston island, where the Bulgarian base is located.

The third group of participants in the 32nd National Antarctic Expedition left Sofia on January 7, the next group of participants in the expedition will depart on January 26 and will include Prof. Christo Pimpirev and five other people.

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During the 32nd Bulgarian expedition to Antarctica, which started on November 8, 2023, the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) is publishing interviews with Antarctic researchers. The Bulgaria-Antarctica BTA's Log again provides coverage of the voyage of the Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii to Antarctica and back and its stay there, as it did during the 31st expedition between December 27, 2022 and May 2, 2023. Back then, only BTA had a correspondent, Daily News Editor Konstantin Karagyozov, who covered the 127-day expedition with text, video and photos during the entire voyage (including across the Atlantic in both directions) and throughout the stay in Antarctica. In June 2023, BTA published in Bulgarian and in English an issue of its LIK magazine "To Antarctica and Back under the Bulgarian Flag" dedicated to the historic expedition. 

All of BTA's information on the Bulgarian scientific research in Antarctica and the support provided by the Bulgarian naval research vessel, as well as on the other activities at the Bulgarian Antarctic Base, will be available to all media outlets in Bulgarian and in English on BTA's website in the Bulgaria - Antarctica: BTA's Log section.

BTA has a National Press Club on board the ship and is planning to open a National Press Club at the Bulgarian Antarctic Base on Livingston Island.