2024-2025 Science Planning Summary
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2024-2025 USAP Field Season
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Albert, Mary T-150-M Ice Drilling Program (IDP)
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 Valleys Seismic Project
Blom, Lukas 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
Cassano, John O-400-M Observing the Atmospheric Boundary Over the 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
Clem, John A-148-M/S 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
Dickson, Jay T-434-M The Polar Geospatial Information Center: Joint Support
Elosegui, Pedro D-550-M A New Instrument and Measurement Approach to Cryoseismogeodesy: Monitoring Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability Using Ice Penetrators
Emslie, Steven B-034-M Using multiple stable isotopes to investigate middle to late Holocene ecological responses by Adélie penguins in the Ross Sea
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 UV Measurements at McMurdo Station for the NOAA/Global Monitoring Lab's Division (GMD) Antarctic UV Network
Higgins, John I-187-M STC: Center for OLDest Ice EXploration (COLDEX): Surface Geophysics Surveys, East Antarctic Plateau
Kenyon, Samantha X-279-M Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: CCRI: New: Distributed Space and Terrestrial Networking Infrastructure for Multiconstellation Coexistence
Kim, Hyomin A-111-M/P/S Next Generation of Geospace Research Facilities at USAP Stations
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
Mattioli, Glen T-312-M EarthScope SAGE: Erebus Backbone Network Project
McDonald, Birgitte 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-946-M/S Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Engineering Support for Antarctic Facilities
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
Patterson, Molly 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
Pettit, Joseph T-295-M EarthScope GAGE high-precision GPS and ground-based light detection and ranging (LiDAR) support
Pettit, Joseph T-299-M EarthScope SAGE Seismic 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
Salesky, Scott O-315-M Collaborative Research: Snow transport in katabatic winds and implications for the Antarctic surface mass balance: observations, theory, and numerical modeling
Shen, Weisen G-298-M/S A Comprehensive Seismic Investigation of the Crust and Uppermost Mantle Beneath the South Pole, East Antarctica
Sumner, Dawn B-047-M Seasonal Primary Productivity and Nitrogen Cycling in Photosynthetic Mats in 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
Thurber, Andrew B-249-M Career: Ecosystem Impacts of Microbial Succession and Production at Antarctic Methane Seeps
Warner, Jacob B-004-M Collaborative Research: Genomic Mechanisms Controlling the Slow Development of the Antarctic Urchin Sterechinus neumayeri
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 I-186-M/S STC: Center for OLDest Ice EXploration (COLDEX): Surface Geophysics Surveys, East Antarctic Plateau
Zimmerer, Matthew G-065-M Constraining West Antarctic Ice Sheet elevation during the last interglacial
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