2024-2025 Science Planning Summary
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2024-2025 USAP Field Season
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Albert, Mary R T-150-M Ice Drilling Program (IDP)
Arrigo, Kevin O-288-N Collaborative Research: Understanding the massive phytoplankton blooms over the Australian-Antarctic Ridge
Ballard, Grant B-200-M Population growth at the southern extreme: Effects of early life conditions on Adélie penguin individuals and colonies
Bertrand, Paul A G-078-M Dry Valley seismic project
Blom, Lukas J T-396-M 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
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
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-P PAL-LTER: Ecological response to "Press-Pulse" disturbances along a rapidly changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Clem, John M A-148-M/S 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
Dickson, Jay NMI T-434-M The Polar Geospatial Information Center: joint support
Elosegui, Pedro NMI D-550-M A new instrument and measurement approach to cryo-seismogeodesy: Monitoring Antarctic ice shelf stability using ice penetrators
Emslie, Steven D B-034-M Using multiple stable isotopes to investigate middle to late Holocene ecological responses by Adélie penguins in the Ross Sea
Franco, Hugo A-145-M NASA Long Duration Balloon (LDB) support program
Friedlaender, Ari Seth C-024-P PAL-LTER: Ecological Response to "Press-Pulse" Disturbances Along a Rapidly Changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Gerken, Sarah Anne B-010-N Collaborative Research: ANT LIA Cumacean -Omics to Measure Mode of Adaptation to Antarctica (COMMAA)
Gooseff, Michael N C-505-M MCM-LTER: MCM6 - The roles of legacy and ecological connectivity in a polar desert ecosystem
Graham, Rebecca Robinson B-042-N Collaborative Research: The roles of seasonality, silicification, and alteration in nitrogen and silicon isotope paleo-proxy variability
Grubisic, Vanda O-264-P Collection of atmospheric air for the NOAA/Global Monitoring Division (GMD) worldwide flask-sampling network
Grubisic, Vanda O-257-M/S Ultra-Violet (UV) measurements at McMurdo Station for the NOAA/Global Monitoring Division (GMD) Antarctic UV network
Hailey, Charles James A-132-M GAPS (General AntiParticle Spectrometer) Experiment: A Search for Dark Matter Using Low Energy Antiprotons and Antideuterons
Halzen, Francis A-333-S Management and operations of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory 2021-2026
Higgins, John A I-187-M STC: Center for OLDest Ice EXploration (COLDEX): Surface Geophysics Surveys, East Antarctic Plateau
Hummon, Julia M T-933-N University of Hawaii Data Acquisition System (UHDAS) support
Karle, Albrecht A-334-M/S Collaborative Research: IceCube Upgrade: An IceCube extension for precision neutrino physics and astrophysics
Kenyon, Samantha Parry X-279-M Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: CCRI: New: Distributed Space and Terrestrial Networking Infrastructure for Multi-Constellation Coexistence
Khan, Alia Lauren B-466-E CAREER: Coastal Antarctic snow algae and light absorbing particles: snowmelt, climate, and ecosystem impacts
Kim, Hyomin NMI A-111-M/P/S The next generation of Geospace research facilities at South Pole, McMurdo, and Palmer Stations
Kim, Hyomin NMI A-108-E Collaborative Research: Investigation of deep polar cap dynamics using an autonomous instrument network
Kingslake, Jonathan I-347-E NSFGEO-NERC: Investigating the direct influence of meltwater on Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics
LaBelle, James A-128-S First Conjugate-station studies and continued satellite-conjunction studies of LF/MF/HF auroral radio emissions at South Pole
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
Lubin, Dan O-325-P Collaborative Research: Antarctic Low Cloud Interaction with Natural Aerosol (ALCINA)
Mattioli, Glen NMI T-312-M EarthScope SAGE: Erebus Backbone Network Project
McDonald, Birgitte I B-245-M CAREER: Foraging ecology and physiology of Emperor penguins in the Ross Sea
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-942-S Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) support: South Pole Station
Melendy, Renee T-946-M/S Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Engineering Support for Antarctic Facilities
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-N Investigating biogeochemical fluxes and linkages to climate change with multi-scale observations in the Drake Passage
Patterson, Molly O'Rourke G-070-M Collaborative Research: Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Celsius (SWAIS 2C)
Pautet, Pierre-Dominique A-119-M/S Pan-Antarctic investigations of mesospheric wave dynamics and influences using the ANGWIN Network
Petrenko, Vasilii Victorovich I-159-E Using new ice cores from Dome C to test the assumption of a constant galactic cosmic ray flux and improve understanding of the Holocene methane budget
Pettit, Joseph R T-295-M EarthScope GAGE high-precision GPS and ground-based light detection and ranging (LiDAR) support
Pettit, Joseph R T-299-M EarthScope SAGE seismic support
Pryke, Clement A-149-S Imaging the beginning of time from the South Pole: Completing the BICEP array survey
Risien, Julie Marie W-491-N Polar STEAM Artists, Writers, and Educators
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
Salesky, Scott Thomas O-315-M Collaborative Research: Snow transport in katabatic winds and implications for the Antarctic surface mass balance: observations, theory, and numerical modeling
Schofield, Oscar C-019-P PAL-LTER: Ecological response to "Press-Pulse" disturbances along a rapidly changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Seunarine, Surujhdeo A-118-S Collaborative Research: The Simpson Neutron Monitor Network
Shen, Weisen G-298-M/S A comprehensive seismic investigation to the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the South Pole, East Antarctica
Steinberg, Deborah C-020-P PAL-LTER: Ecological response to "Press-Pulse" disturbances along a rapidly changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Sumner, Dawn Yvonne B-047-M Seasonal primary productivity and nitrogen cycling in photosynthetic mats, Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys
Swanger, Kate G-064-M Collaborative Research: Holocene and late Pleistocene stream deposition in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica as a proxy for glacial meltwater and paleoclimate
Thurber, Andrew B-249-M CAREER: Ecosystem impacts of microbial succession and production at Antarctic methane seeps
Tominaga, Masako NMI G-082-N Collaborative Research: Heat source and flux distributions in the Western Ross Sea seafloor
van Gestel, Natasja B-086-P Antarctica as a model system for responses of terrestrial carbon balance to warming
Van Mooy, Benjamin C-045-P PAL-LTER: Ecological response to "Press-Pulse" disturbances along a rapidly changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Warner, Jacob B-004-M Collaborative Research: Genomic mechanisms controlling the slow development of the Antarctic urchin Sterechinus neumayeri
Williams, David G T-998-P Operation and maintenance of a CTBT radionuclide monitoring station at Palmer Station
Wilson, David NMI G-090-P/S Global seismograph station (GSN) at South Pole Station, Palmer Station and Scott Base
Wilson, Terry G-079-M Collaborative Research: Investigating Ice Sheet - Solid Earth Feedbacks in West Antarctica: Implications for ice sheet evolution and stability
Winebrenner, Dale nmi I-186-M/S STC: Center for OLDest Ice EXploration (COLDEX): Surface Geophysics Surveys, East Antarctic Plateau
Zappa, Christopher O-401-E Formation, transformation, and northward spreading of dense saline water derived from Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica
Zhan, Zhongwen A-137-S Pilot fiber seismic networks at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
Zimmerer, Matthew Joseph G-065-M Constraining West Antarctic Ice Sheet elevation during the last interglacial
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