Staffed Field Camps
Seven field camps will have resident staff to provide logistic and operational assistance to McMurdo-based researchers.

Each year numerous groups conduct research throughout the Dry Valleys. Two resident staff will operate the main base camp at Lake Hoare and the other semi-permanent camps at Lake Fryxell, F-6, and Lake Bonney. The Dry Valleys are predominately occupied by the Long Term Ecological Research grantees.  Other large projects this season include Endurance (Doran B-211-M), Skidmore (B-236-M), Forman (B-046-M), Doran (B-211-M), Costa (B-232-M), and Saito (B-243-M) and Morin (G-434-M).  Several other groups will operate from small tent camps throughout the region, including project in the Garwood, Meirs, and McKelvey, Wright, and University Valleys and at Lake Joyce and Lake Vanda.

Two resident staff and a fuels operator maintain the Marble Point Field camp.  The main focus of the camp is to support refueling operations for helicopters working in the Dry Valleys and local sea ice.

Siple Dome will have two resident field camp staff.  They will provide daily weather observations for planes operating in West Antarctica.  They will also house and feed Kenn Borek Air pilots that may remain overnight at the camp.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Field Camp with eleven resident staff will support nine projects: Kendrick Taylor (I-477-M) will continue collecting a 3,400 m deep ice core in West Antarctica. The National Ice Core Laboratory (I-478-M) will provide quality assurance and oversight for ice coring 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. The AWS (automatic weather station) project team, O-283-M (Charles Stearns), will service stations from the camp. Eftyhia Zesta's team (A-357-M) will service their magnetometer. A-105 (Lessard) will install the  ARRO instrumentation, and the Long Duration Balloon project (Mitchell A-147-M) will retrieve their BESS payload, launched in 07-08.  Anna McKee will visit WAIS Divide as an artist and writer.

Prasad Gogineni - Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS, I-188-M) and Sridhar Anandakrishnan (I-205-M) will traverse from WAIS Divide to the Thwaites glacier (Seismic Up and Seismic Down) and back, conducting reflection seismic experiments to study flow dynamics and the glacier subsurface.  This is the final field season of this traverse.  One Heavy Equipment Mechanic services the two Tuckers, drill equipment, snow machines, generators, and sleds, and assists the science group with any requests.

The Byrd field camp will have an approximate population of 55 people. Eleven resident staff, and a cargo coordinator in McMurdo, support five projects: Polenet (G-079, Wilson), CReSIS (I-189, Gogineni) and Joughin (I-157). Also, UNAVCO and Bindschadler will depart for the Pine Island Glacier from Byrd. Polenet is installing a GPS array throughout West Antarctica and I-189 and I-157 will fly grid patterns to the Pine Island Glacier collecting radar data. In support of the long radar flights, a three person team will groom a skiway at several fuel cache locations.

This high elevation camp (11,700 feet with pressure altitudes commonly at 12,500 feet) will support seismic surveys of the Gamburtsev Mountain range in East Antarctica. GAMSEIS (Nyblade, G-055) will complete their passive seismic experiment, retrieving an array of seismometers. Approximate population is 30 people, including 9 staff. This is final planned season of the AGAP camp.