2025-2026 Science Planning Summary
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2025-2026 USAP Field Season
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Adams, Byron J C-507-M LTER: MCM6: The Roles of Legacy and Ecological Connectivity in a Polar Desert Ecosystem
Albert, Mary R T-150-M National Science Foundation 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
Blom, Lukas J T-396-M/P Operation and Maintenance of a CTBT Class Infrasound Array at Windless Bight and Palmer Station
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
Cimino, Megan A C-013-N/P PAL-LTER: Ecological Response to "Press Pulse" Disturbances Along a Rapidly Changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Conde, Mark Gerard A-343-M/S Local-scale Drivers and Responses of Thermospheric Weather Above Antarctica
Crawford, Thomas M A-379-S South Pole Telescope Operations and Data Products
Diaz, Melisa Antonia C-504-M LTER: MCM6: The Roles of Legacy and Ecological Connectivity in a Polar Desert Ecosystem
Dickson, Jay NMI T-434-M The Polar Geospatial Information Center: Joint Support
Doran, Peter C-511-M LTER: MCM6: The Roles of Legacy and Ecological Connectivity in a Polar Desert Ecosystem
Elosegui, Pedro NMI D-550-M A New Instrument and Measurement Approach to Cryoseismogeodesy: Monitoring Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability Using Ice Penetrators
Franco, Hugo A-145-S NASA Long Duration Balloon (LDB) Support Program
Friedlaender, Ari Seth C-024-N/P PAL-LTER: Ecological Response to "Press-Pulse" Disturbances Along a Rapidly Changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Gooseff, Michael N C-506-M LTER: MCM6: The Roles of Legacy and Ecological Connectivity in a Polar Desert Ecosystem
Grubisic, Vanda O-264-P Collection of Atmospheric Air for the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory’s Worldwide Flask-sampling Network
Grubisic, Vanda O-257-M/S UV Measurements at McMurdo Station for the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory's 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
Halzen, Francis A-333-S Management and Operations of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, 2021-2026
Keegan, Kaitlin M I-162-M Collaborative Research: A New Approach to Firn Evolution Using the Taylor Dome Natural Laboratory
Kim, Hyomin NMI A-111-M/P/S Next Generation of Geospace Research Facilities at USAP 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/S Collaborative Research: Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Program
Loose, Brice Griffith O-363-N Collaborative Research: How to Trace Glacial Meltwater in the Ocean by Shipboard Hydrographic Analysis of Dissolved Neon and Krypton
MacAyeal, Douglas R I-169-M Collaborative Research: Ice Shelf Rumpling and Its Influence on Ice Shelf Buttressing Processes
Mars Brisbin, Margaret Anne O-409-N Collaborative Research: RAPID: Linking Sea Ice and Biogeochemistry in the Weddell Sea Marginal Ice Zone: Physical Structure, Meltwater, Chemistry and Biological Gradients
Moffat, Carlos F C-021-N PAL-LTER: Ecological Response to "Press-Pulse" Disturbances Along a Rapidly Changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Morton, Jade T A-104-M/P/S Small Multi-GNSS Data Collection Array for Ionosphere and Space Weather Monitoring
Murray, Alison B-018-N Collaborative Research: Diving Into the Ecology of an Antarctic Ascidian Microbiome-Palmerolide Association Using a Multiomic and Functional Approach
Patterson, Molly O'Rourke G-070-M Collaborative Research: Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Celsius (SWAIS 2C)
Pautet, Pierre-Dominique NMI A-119-M/S Pan-Antarctic Investigations of Mesospheric Wave Dynamics and Influences Using the ANGWIN Network
Pettit, Joseph R T-295-M EarthScope GAGE high-precision GPS and Ground-based 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
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
Schofield, Oscar C-019-N/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
Shackleton, Sarah Ann 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 of the Crust and Uppermost Mantle Beneath the South Pole, East Antarctica
Smith, Joshua NMI X-279-M Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: CCRI: New: Distributed Space and Terrestrial Networking Infrastructure for Multiconstellation Coexistence
Steinberg, Deborah C-020-N/P PAL-LTER: Ecological Response to "Press Pulse" Disturbances Along a Rapidly Changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Stephens, Britton Bruce O-404-M Collaborative Research: Southern Ocean Carbon Gas Observatory (SCARGO)
Sumner, Dawn Yvonne B-047-M Seasonal Primary Productivity and Nitrogen Cycling in Photosynthetic Mats in Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys
Takacs-Vesbach, Cristina Danielle C-505-M MCM-LTER: MCM6: The Roles of Legacy and Ecological Connectivity in a Polar Desert Ecosystem
Thurber, Andrew Reichmann B-249-M Career: Ecosystem Impacts of Microbial Succession and Production at Antarctic Methane Seeps
Tobin, Thomas Steven G-296-N Collaborative Research: Coring Seymour Island (CSI) Antarctica: Evaluating Causes and Effects of the End Cretaceous Mass Extinction
van Gestel, Natasja Carla B-086-P Antarctica as a Model System for Responses of Terrestrial Carbon Balance to Warming
Van Mooy, Benjamin C-045-N/P PAL-LTER: Ecological Response to "Press Pulse" Disturbances Along a Rapidly Changing West Antarctic Peninsula
Vazquez-Medina, Jose Pablo B-464-M Collaborative Research: Role of Endothelial Cell Activation in Hypoxia Tolerance of an Elite Diver, the Weddell Seal
Vieregg, Abigail G A-125-M Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations
Warner, Jacob B-004-M Collaborative Research: Genomic Mechanisms Controlling the Slow Development of the Antarctic Urchin Sterechinus neumayeri
Wilson, David NMI G-090-P/S Global Seismographic Network (GSN) at South Pole Station, Palmer Station, and Scott Base
Wilson, Terry G-079-E Collaborative Research: Investigating Ice Sheet-Solid Earth Feedbacks in West Antarctica: Implications for Ice Sheet Evolution and Stability
Winberry, Jeremy G-060-M Collaborative Research: Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Celsius (SWAIS 2C)
Wright, Matthew Stephen T-998-P Operation and Maintenance of a CTBT Radionuclide Monitoring Station at Palmer Station
Zappa, Christopher J O-401-E Formation, Transformation, and Northward Spread of Dense Saline Water Derived From Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica
Zeglin, Lydia Helen C-509-M LTER: MCM6: The Roles of Legacy and Ecological Connectivity in a Polar Desert Ecosystem
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