2022-2023 Science Planning Summary
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2022-2023 USAP Field Season
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Adams, Byron J C-507-M McMurdo LTER – Soils: Ecosystem response to amplified landscape connectivity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Ainley, David B-031-M/N NSFGEO-NERC Collaborative Research: P2P: Predators to Plankton – Biophysical controls in Antarctic polynyas
Albert, Mary R T-150-M Ice Drilling Program (IDP)
Anandakrishnan, Sridhar C-442-M Ground geophysics survey of Thwaites Glacier
Ballard, Grant B-200-M Population growth at the southern extreme: Effects of early life conditions on Adélie penguin individuals and colonies
Banwell, Alison I-151-E Ice-shelf instability caused by active surface meltwater production, movement, ponding, and hydrofracture
Bart, Philip G-431-N Unpinning of the Ross Ice Shelf from Ross Bank
Bertrand, Paul A G-078-M Dry Valley seismic project
Bik, Holly Marie B-252-N Do molecular data support high endemism and divergent evolution of Antarctic marine nematodes and their host-associated microbiomes?
Bluth, Laura Denise T-988-N Protected Species Observers for Coffin (O-269-N)
Bowman, Jeff Shovlowsky B-285-L/P CAREER: Understanding Microbial Heterotrophic Processes In Coastal Antarctic Waters
Briggs, Brandon R B-011-M Genetic underpinnings of microbial interactions in chemically stratified Antarctic lakes
Bristow, William A-369-M/S Antarctic SuperDARN research, operations, and system enhancements
Brook, Edward Jeremy I-185-M/S COLDEX - Airborne Geophysics Survey- East Antarctic Plateau (EAP)
Brook, Edward Jeremy I-188-M COLDEX - Surface Geophysics Surveys (Allan Hills, Elephant Moraine, EAP Site 3)
Carlstrom, John A-379-S South Pole Telescope (SPT) operations and data products
Cassano, John O-400-M Observing the atmospheric boundary over the West Antarctic ice sheet
Chereskin, Teresa O-317-L High resolution underway air-sea observations in Drake Passage for climate science
Christianson, Knut A I-175-M/S Ice dynamics at the intersection of the West and East Antarctic Ice Sheets
Christianson, Knut A I-163-M Collaborative Research: EAGER: A Dual-Band Radar for Measuring Internal Ice Deformation: a Multipass Ice-Penetrating Radar Experiment on Thwaites Glacier and the McMurdo Ice Shelf
Chu, Xinzhao A-123-M Collaborative Research: Fe and Na LiDAR investigations of geospace-atmosphere temperature, composition, chemistry, and dynamics at McMurdo, Antarctica
Cimino, Megan A C-013-L/P Palmer, Antarctica Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER): land-shelf-ocean connectivity, and ecosystem resilience and transformation, in a sea-ice influenced pelagic ecosystem
Clem, John M A-148-M AESOP-lite: Anti-Electron Sub-Orbital Payload – Low Energy
Coffin, Richard B O-269-N Collaborative Research: Gas hydrate contribution to the Ross Sea carbon budget; Shallow sediment to water column; Present and future
Conde, Mark Gerard A-343-M/S Local-scale drivers and responses of thermospheric weather above Antarctica
Crucian, Brian E X-597-P Validation of multisystem countermeasures protocol for spaceflight during Antarctica winterover at Palmer Station
Datta-Barua, Seebany D-556-M Mapping melting glacial surfaces with GNSS reflectometry
Deshler, Terry O-241-M Measurement of stratospheric aerosol to altitudes above 35 km in Austral autumn
Doran, Peter C-511-M McMurdo LTER – Meteorology/Lakes: Ecosystem response to amplified landscape connectivity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Eppley, Sarah Margaretha B-289-E Collaborative Research: Exploring the functional role of plants during terrestrial succession
Filippini, Jeffrey Peter A-143-M Sub-orbital Polarimeter for Inflation Dust and the Epoch of Reionization (SPIDER)
Franco, Hugo A-145-M NASA Long Duration Balloon (LDB) support program
Friedlaender, Ari Seth C-024-L/P Palmer, Antarctica Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER): land-shelf-ocean connectivity, and ecosystem resilience, and transformation in a sea-ice influenced pelagic ecosystem
Gerken, Sarah Anne B-010-N Collaborative Research: ANT LIA Cumacean -Omics to Measure Mode of Adaptation to Antarctica (COMMAA)
Gooseff, Michael N C-504-M McMurdo LTER – Glaciers: Ecosystem response to amplified landscape connectivity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Gooseff, Michael N C-506-M McMurdo LTER – Streams/Geochemistry: Ecosystem response to amplified landscape connectivity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Halanych, Kenneth B-305-N Collaborative Research: Have trans-Antarctic dispersal corridors impacted Antarctic marine biodiversity?
Hanson, Kael Dylan A-334-M/S IceCube Upgrade: An IceCube extension for precision neutrino physics and astrophysics
Higgins, John A I-165-M Snapshots of early and mid-Pleistocene climate and atmospheric composition from the Allan Hills blue ice area
Huckstadt, Luis Alfredo B-038-L NSFGEO-NERC Collaborative Research: Effects of a changing climate on the habitat utilization, foraging ecology and distribution of crabeater seals
Hummon, Julia M T-933-N University of Hawaii Data Acquisition System (UHDAS) support
Hurford, Terry A C-530-M Antarctic analog study for tidally diurnal motions on icy satellites
Khan, Alia Lauren B-466-E CAREER: Coastal Antarctic snow algae and light absorbing particles: snowmelt, climate, and ecosystem impacts
Kocot, Kevin M B-237-L/N CAREER: Revolutionizing biodiversity and systematics research on Aplacophora (Mollusca) and training the next generation of invertebrate systematists
Kocot, Kevin M B-237-L/N CAREER: Revolutionizing biodiversity and systematics research on Aplacophora (Mollusca) and training the next generation of invertebrate systematists
Kohut, Josh B-005-L Physical mechanisms driving food web focusing on Antarctic biological hotspots
Kovac, John A-149-S Imaging the beginning of time from the South Pole: the next stage of the BICEP program
Krause, Douglas John X-591-L National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Antarctic Marine Living Resource (NOAA/AMLR) Program Cape Shirreff Camp Support
LaBelle, James A-128-S First Conjugate-station studies and continued satellite-conjunction studies of LF/MF/HF auroral radio emissions at South Pole
Lamp, Jennifer L G-055-M Landscape evolution in the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Erosion rates and real-time monitoring of rock breakdown in a hyperarid, sub-zero environment
Lazzara, Matthew O-283-M Collaborative Research: Antarctic automatic weather station program
Learman, Deric R B-014-N Collaborative Research: Connecting metagenome potential to microbial function: Investigating microbial degradation of Complex Organic Matter Antarctic Benthic Sediments
Levy, Joseph G-083-M CAREER: Linking cold desert groundwater to thermokarst & chemical weathering in partnership with the Geoscience UAV Academy
McClintock, James B-027-P Assemblage-wide effects of ocean acidification and ocean warming on ecologically important macroalgal-associated crustaceans in Antarctica
McDonald, Birgitte I B-245-M/N CAREER: Foraging ecology and physiology of Emperor penguins in the Ross Sea
McKnight, Diane M C-509-M McMurdo LTER – Algal Ops: Ecosystem response to amplified landscape connectivity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Melendy, Renee T-940-M Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) activities: McMurdo Shear Zone
Melendy, Renee T-942-S Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) support: South Pole Station
Moffat, Carlos F C-021-L Palmer, Antarctica Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER): land-shelf-ocean connectivity, and ecosystem resilience and transformation, in a sea-ice influenced pelagic ecosystem
Moffat, Carlos F O-263-L CAREER: The transformation, cross-shore export, and along-shore transport of freshwater on Antarctic shelves
Moline, Mark Alan B-308-P Collaborative Research: Linking predator behavior and resource distributions: penguin-directed exploration of an ecological hotspot
Morgan, Daniel Jones G-049-M Unlocking the glacial history of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica by fingerprinting glacial tills with detrital zircon U-Pb age populations
Munro, David Russel O-214-L/N Investigating biogeochemical fluxes and linkages to climate change with multi-scale observations in the Drake Passage
Neumann, Tom Allen X-594-M/S 88S traverse: GPS survey for calibration and validation of ICESat-2 altimetry data
O'Brien, Kristin M. B-036-E/L/P Hypoxia tolerance in notothenioid fishes
Palo, Scott A-284-M Lower thermospheric science using new meteor radar at McMurdo Station
Pettit, Erin C-445-M Thwaites-Amundsen Regional Survey and Network (TARSAN): integrating atmosphere-ice-ocean processes affecting the sub-ice-shelf environment
Priscu, John C-505-M McMurdo LTER – Limnology: Ecosystem response to amplified landscape connectivity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Pundsack, Jonathan William T-434-M The Polar Geospatial Information Center: joint support
Rotella, Jay B-009-M Collaborative Research: The drivers and role of immigration in the dynamics of the largest population of Weddell seals in Antarctica under changing conditions
Sample, John Glen A-144-M Balloon Observations Of Microburst Scales (BOOMS)
Sarmiento, Jorge l O-271-N Southern Ocean Carbon and climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM)
Schofield, Oscar C-019-L/P Palmer, Antarctica Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER): land-shelf-ocean connectivity, and ecosystem resilience and transformation, in a sea-ice influenced pelagic ecosystem
Seunarine, Surujhdeo A-118-S Collaborative Research: The Simpson Neutron Monitor Network
Spangelo, Sara Christine X-600-M Swarm Technologies
Sprintall, Janet O-260-L High-resolution underway air-sea observations in Drake Passage for climate science
Stein, Ariel NMI O-257-M/S U.S. Department of Commerce NOAA Global Monitoring Division (GMD)
Stein, Ariel NMI O-264-P Collection of atmospheric air for the NOAA/Global Monitoring Division (GMD) worldwide flask-sampling network
Steinberg, Deborah C-020-L/P Palmer, Antarctica Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER): land-shelf-ocean connectivity, and ecosystem resilience and transformation, in a sea-ice influenced pelagic ecosystem
Stephens, Britton B O-404-M Investigating biogeochemical fluxes and linkages to climate change with multi-scale observations in the Drake Passage
Sumner, Dawn Yvonne B-047-M Seasonal primary productivity and nitrogen cycling in photosynthetic mats, Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys
Teets, Nicholas Mario B-046-L/P Mechanisms of adaptation to terrestrial Antarctica through comparative physiology and genomics of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic insects
Thurber, Andrew B-249-M CAREER: Ecosystem impacts of microbial succession and production at Antarctic methane seeps
Tremblay, Marissa M G-059-M Reconstructing temperatures during the mid-Pliocene Warm Period in the McMurdo Dry Valleys with cosmogenic noble gases
Tulaczyk, Slawek M C-446-M Thwaites Interdisciplinary Margin Evolution (TIME): the role of shear margin dynamics in the future evolution of the Thwaites Drainage Basin
van Gestel, Natasja B-086-P Antarctica as a model system for responses of terrestrial carbon balance to warming
Van Mooy, Benjamin C-045-L/P Palmer, Antarctica Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER): land-shelf-ocean connectivity, and ecosystem resilience and transformation, in a sea-ice influenced pelagic ecosystem
Venturelli, Ryan Anne C-443-M Geological History Constraints on the magnitude of grounding line retreat in the Thwaites Glacier system (GHC)
Watters, George B-006-L US Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program (AMLR)
Weissburg, Marc Joel B-198-L/N/P Collaborative Research: Individual based approaches to understanding krill distributions and aggregations
Williams, David G T-998-P Operation and maintenance of a CTBT radionuclide monitoring station at Palmer Station
Wilson, Terry G-079-M Collaborative Research: Investigating Ice Sheet - Solid Earth Feedbacks in West Antarctica: Implications for ice sheet evolution and stability
Zhan, Zhongwen A-137-S Pilot fiber seismic networks at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
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