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2022-2023 USAP Field Season
Project Indexes

Principal Investigator	Event No.	Project Title
Principal Investigator Index
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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
Anderson, Kent	T-312-M	IRIS/PASSCAL: Erebus Backbone Network Project
Anderson, Kent	T-299-M/S	IRIS/PASSCAL seismic support
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?
Halzen, Francis	A-333-S	Management and operation of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory 2021-2026
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	CRREL activities at South Pole Station
Mitrovica, Jerry X	G-065-M	Constraining West Antarctic Ice Sheet elevation during the last interglacial
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
Munley Jr., William Gregory	T-961-M	Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)
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
Pettit, Joseph R	T-295-M	UNAVCO high-precision GPS and ground-based light detection and ranging (LiDAR) support
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
Shero, Michelle Rebecca	B-026-M	Collaborative Research: Physiological and genetic correlates of reproductive success in high- versus low-quality Weddell seals
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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