Each year numerous groups conduct research throughout the Dry Valleys. Two resident staff will operate the main base camp at Lake Hoare and other groups will operate from small tent camps throughout the region.

Siple Dome with three resident staff will support three science projects: Ginny Catania (I-159-M), Slawek Tulaczyk (I-345-M), and Brenda Hall (I-196-M) will use Siple Dome as a staging area and travel to independent, tent camps. Dr. Catania's group will conduct radar and Global Positioning System (GPS) experiments at three remote locations. Dr. Tulaczyk will obtain GPS time series and geophysical data, while Dr. Hall will sample moraines along the Scott Glacier.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Field Camp with 11 resident staff will support 12 projects:

• Kendrick Taylor (I-477-M) will begin to collect a 3,400 meter-deep ice core in West Antarctica. This is the first year the project will collect core using the Deep Ice Sheet Core (DISC) drill.
• The National Ice Core Laboratory (I-478-M) will provide quality assurance and oversight for the DISC operations.
• Richard Alley (I-168-M) will provide records of visible stratigraphy, depth evolution of ice grain size and orientation, bubble sizes, size distributions and characteristics of the Deep Ice Sheet Core.
• Charles Bentley-Ice Core Drilling Services (T-350-M) will complete the setup and operate the DISC Drill System at WAIS Divide.
• Prasad Gogineni-Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (I-189-M) and Sridhar Anandakrishnan (I-205-M) will survey along and across flow in three regions of interest of Thwaites Glacier.
• Robert Bindschadler (C-407-M) will measure the interaction of ocean water with the underside of the floating ice shelf at the end of the Pine Island Glacier.
• The Automatic Weather Station (AWS) project team, O-283-M (Charles Stearns), will service stations from the camp.
• Eftyhia Zesta's team (A-357-M) will inspect their magnetometer.
• Wendy Kaye Warnick-PolarTREC (Y-606-M) will add one teacher to Prasad Gogineni's (I-189-M) project.
• Geoffrey Haines-Stiles-POLAR-PALOOZA (Y-328-M) is an International Polar Year (IPY) education and outreach project supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
• John Michael Farrell (Y-601-M) is a science education project that will provide the general public with greater understanding and knowledge of scientific research being conducted in Antarctica.