The USAP Portal: Science and Support in Antarctica - 2025-2026 Science Planning Summary

2025-2026 USAP Field Season
Project Indexes

Principal Investigator	Event No.	Project Title
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Ballard, Grant	B-200-M	Population Growth at the Southern Extreme: Effects of Early Life Conditions on Adélie Penguin Individuals and Colonies
Heine, John	B-003-M	Collaborative Research: Biogeography, Population Genetics, and Ecology of Two Common Species of Fleshy Red Algae in McMurdo Sound
Murray, Alison	B-018-N	Collaborative Research: Diving Into the Ecology of an Antarctic Ascidian Microbiome-Palmerolide Association Using a Multiomic and Functional Approach
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
Sumner, Dawn	B-047-M	Seasonal Primary Productivity and Nitrogen Cycling in Photosynthetic Mats in Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys
Thurber, Andrew	B-249-M	Career: Ecosystem Impacts of Microbial Succession and Production at Antarctic Methane Seeps
van Gestel, Natasja	B-086-P	Antarctica as a model system for responses of terrestrial carbon balance to warming
Vazquez-Medina, Jose	B-464-M	Collaborative Research: Role of Endothelial Cell Activation in Hypoxia Tolerance of an Elite Diver, the Weddell Seal
Warner, Jacob	B-004-M	Collaborative Research: Genomic Mechanisms Controlling the Slow Development of the Antarctic Urchin Sterechinus neumayeri
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