2023-2024 Science Planning Summary
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2023-2024 USAP Field Season
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Albert, Mary T-150-M Ice Drilling Program (IDP)
Anandakrishnan, Sridhar C-442-M Ground geophysics survey of Thwaites Glacier
Balco, Gregory I-158-M Collaborative research: Site survey for subglacial bedrock exposure dating at the margin of the Wilkes Basin in northern Victoria Land
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
Blom, Lukas T-396-M/P Operation and maintenance of a CTBT class infrasound array at Windless Bight
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)
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
Franco, Hugo A-145-M NASA Long Duration Balloon (LDB) support program
Gerrard, Andrew A-111-M/P/S The next generation of Geospace research facilities at South Pole, McMurdo, and Palmer Stations
Gerrard, Andrew A-111-M/P/S The next generation of Geospace research facilities at South Pole, McMurdo, and Palmer Stations
Gooseff, Michael C-505-M MCM-LTER: MCM6 - The roles of legacy and ecological connectivity in a polar desert ecosystem
Grubisic, Vanda O-257-M/S Ultra-Violet (UV) measurements at McMurdo Station for the NOAA/Global Monitoring Division (GMD) Antarctic UV network
Joughin, Ian X-498-M NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR)
Junge, Karen B-321-M Sea-ice snow microbial communities’ impact on Antarctic bromocarbon budgets and processes
Karle, Albrecht A-334-M/S Collaborative Research: IceCube Upgrade: An IceCube extension for precision neutrino physics and astrophysics
Karner, James G-058-M Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET)
Lazzara, Matthew O-283-M Collaborative Research: Antarctic automatic weather station program
Melendy, Renee T-940-M Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) activities: McMurdo Shear Zone
Melendy, Renee T-941-M Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) support: Leverett Glacier
Melendy, Renee T-946-M/S Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Engineering Support for Antarctic Facilities
Melendy, Renee T-948-M Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Heavy Weight Deflectometers (HWD) Testing
Neff, Peter I-345-M US-Korean collaboration to build a Ross-Amundsen Ice Core Array (RAICA) along the West Antarctic coastline
Neumann, Tom X-594-M/S 88S traverse: GPS survey for calibration and validation of ICESat-2 altimetry data
Patterson, Molly G-070-M Collaborative Research: Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Celsius (SWAIS 2C)
Pundsack, Jonathan T-434-M The Polar Geospatial Information Center: joint support
Rauch, Brian A-142-M SuperTIGER-2 (The Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder 2)
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
Shackleton, Sarah I-187-M STC: Center for OLDest Ice EXploration (COLDEX): Surface Geophysics Surveys, East Antarctic Plateau
Shen, Weisen G-298-M/S A comprehensive seismic investigation to the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the South Pole, East Antarctica
Spangelo, Sara X-600-M Swarm Technologies
Stillman, David G-067-M Formation of Thermal-Contraction Polygons on Mars: Effects of Variable Subsurface Ice Content from Geophysical Surveys of Antarctic Dry Valley Analogs
Sumner, Dawn B-047-M Seasonal primary productivity and nitrogen cycling in photosynthetic mats, Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys
Taylor, Michael A-119-M/S Pan-Antarctic investigations of mesospheric wave dynamics and influences using the ANGWIN Network
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
Walker, Christopher A-136-M The GUSTO (Galactic / Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory)
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