page_title: Emil Racoviță
section_title: Scientific work
hierarchical_section_title: Emil Racoviță / Belgica expedition / Scientific work
caption_attribution_description: English: Emil Racovitza as diver at Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, 1899, picture by Louis Boutan Français&#160;: Émile Racovitza en "pied-lourd" à Banyuls-sur-Mer, 1899, photo de Louis Boutan
context_page_description: Emil Gheorghe Racoviță was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, and Antarctic explorer.
  Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most noted promoters of natural sciences in Romania. Racoviță was the first Romanian to have gone on a scientific research expedition to the Antarctic. He was an influential professor, scholar and researcher, and served as President of the Romanian Academy from 1926 to 1929.
context_section_description: The team left the deck of the ship 22 times, in order to collect scientific data, to conduct investigations and experiments. Racoviță was the first researcher to collect botanical and zoological samples from areas beyond the Antarctic Circle.
  Belgica made the first daily meteorological recordings and measurements in Antarctica, every hour, for a whole year. The scientists also collected information on oceanic currents and terrestrial magnetism, with as many as 10 volumes of scientific conclusions being published at the end of the expedition, which was considered a success.
caption: Racoviță diving in 1899
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