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2022-2023 USAP Field Season
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Principal Investigator	Event No.	Project Title
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Adams, Byron	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	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
Bertrand, Paul	G-078-M	Dry Valley seismic project
Briggs, Brandon	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	I-185-M/S	COLDEX - Airborne Geophysics Survey- East Antarctic Plateau (EAP)
Brook, Edward	I-188-M	COLDEX - Surface Geophysics Surveys (Allan Hills, Elephant Moraine, EAP Site 3)
Cassano, John	O-400-M	Observing the atmospheric boundary over the West Antarctic ice sheet
Christianson, Knut	I-175-M/S	Ice dynamics at the intersection of the West and East Antarctic Ice Sheets
Christianson, Knut	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
Clem, John	A-148-M	AESOP-lite: Anti-Electron Sub-Orbital Payload – Low Energy
Conde, Mark	A-343-M/S	Local-scale drivers and responses of thermospheric weather above Antarctica
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
Filippini, Jeffrey	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
Gooseff, Michael	C-504-M	McMurdo LTER – Glaciers: Ecosystem response to amplified landscape connectivity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Gooseff, Michael	C-506-M	McMurdo LTER – Streams/Geochemistry: Ecosystem response to amplified landscape connectivity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Hanson, Kael	A-334-M/S	IceCube Upgrade: An IceCube extension for precision neutrino physics and astrophysics
Higgins, John	I-165-M	Snapshots of early and mid-Pleistocene climate and atmospheric composition from the Allan Hills blue ice area
Hurford, Terry	C-530-M	Antarctic analog study for tidally diurnal motions on icy satellites
Lamp, Jennifer	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
Levy, Joseph	G-083-M	CAREER: Linking cold desert groundwater to thermokarst & chemical weathering in partnership with the Geoscience UAV Academy
McDonald, Birgitte	B-245-M/N	CAREER: Foraging ecology and physiology of Emperor penguins in the Ross Sea
McKnight, Diane	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
Mitrovica, Jerry	G-065-M	Constraining West Antarctic Ice Sheet elevation during the last interglacial
Morgan, Daniel	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	T-961-M	Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)
Neumann, Tom	X-594-M/S	88S traverse: GPS survey for calibration and validation of ICESat-2 altimetry data
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	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	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	A-144-M	Balloon Observations Of Microburst Scales (BOOMS)
Shero, Michelle	B-026-M	Collaborative Research: Physiological and genetic correlates of reproductive success in high- versus low-quality Weddell seals
Spangelo, Sara	X-600-M	Swarm Technologies
Stein, Ariel	O-257-M/S	U.S. Department of Commerce NOAA Global Monitoring Division (GMD)
Stephens, Britton	O-404-M	Investigating biogeochemical fluxes and linkages to climate change with multi-scale observations in the Drake Passage
Sumner, Dawn	B-047-M	Seasonal primary productivity and nitrogen cycling in photosynthetic mats, Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys
Thurber, Andrew	B-249-M	CAREER: Ecosystem impacts of microbial succession and production at Antarctic methane seeps
Tremblay, Marissa	G-059-M	Reconstructing temperatures during the mid-Pliocene Warm Period in the McMurdo Dry Valleys with cosmogenic noble gases
Tulaczyk, Slawek	C-446-M	Thwaites Interdisciplinary Margin Evolution (TIME): the role of shear margin dynamics in the future evolution of the Thwaites Drainage Basin
Venturelli, Ryan	C-443-M	Geological History Constraints on the magnitude of grounding line retreat in the Thwaites Glacier system (GHC)
Wilson, Terry	G-079-M	Collaborative Research: Investigating Ice Sheet - Solid Earth Feedbacks in West Antarctica: Implications for ice sheet evolution and stability
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