2026-2027 Science Planning Summary
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2026-2027 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 Beyond the Black-and-White: Uncovering Hidden Keys to Success in Adelie Penguins
Banwell, Alison I-169-M Collaborative Research: Ice Shelf Rumpling and Its Influence on Ice Shelf Buttressing Processes
Bendick, Rebecca NMI T-295-M EarthScope GAGE High-precision GPS and Ground-based Lidar Support
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
Buckley, James Henry A-126-M Payload Antarctic Demonstrator for the Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope (ADAPT)
Cassano, John O-400-M Observing the Atmospheric Boundary Over the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Chu, Xinzhao NMI 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
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
Dugan, Hilary Anne Bawden C-511-M LTER: MCM6: The Roles of Legacy and Ecological Connectivity in a Polar Desert Ecosystem
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
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
Halzen, Francis A-333-M/S Management and Operations of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, 2021-2026
Joughin, Ian X-498-M NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR)
Karner, James G-058-M Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET)
Keegan, Kaitlin M I-162-M Collaborative Research: A New Approach to Firn Evolution Using the Taylor Dome Natural Laboratory
Kenyon, Samantha Parry X-279-M Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: CCRI: New: Distributed Space and Terrestrial Networking Infrastructure for Multiconstellation Coexistence
Khan, Alia Lauren B-466-P CAREER: Coastal Antarctic Snow Algae and Light Absorbing Particles: Snowmelt, Climate, and Ecosystem Impacts
Kim, Hyomin NMI A-111-M/P/S Next Generation of Geospace Research Facilities at USAP Stations
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
Lubin, Dan O-325-P Collaborative Research: Antarctic Low Cloud Interaction With Natural Aerosol (ALCINA)
Maksym, Edward NMI O-406-M Collaborative Research: RAPID: Drivers and Implications of Recent Rapid Sea Ice Decline in the Ross Sea
Mikucki, Jill G-051-M Collaborative Research: RAPID: Antarctic Groundwater-Ecosystem Connectivity Across Ice-Ocean-Land Critical Zones
Morgan-Kiss, Rachael C-508-M LTER: MCM6 - The Roles of Legacy and Ecological Connectivity in a Polar Desert Ecosystem
Morton, Jade T A-104-M/P/S Small Multi-GNSS Data Collection Array for Ionosphere and Space Weather Monitoring
Nagler, Peter Campbell A-130-M Exoplanet Climate Infrared Telescope (EXCITE)
O'Connell, Kari Elizabeth Bisbee W-491-M Polar STEAM Artists, Writers, and Educators
Pautet, Pierre-Dominique NMI A-119-M/S Pan-Antarctic Investigations of Mesospheric Wave Dynamics and Influences Using the ANGWIN Network
Ponganis, Paul John B-197-M From Air Sacs to Tissues: Oxygen Transfer and Utilization in Diving Emperor Penguins
Pryke, Clement A-149-S Imaging the Beginning of Time From the South Pole: Completing the BICEP Array Survey
Rivera-Hernandez, Frances NMI G-080-M Paleolake Deposits in Miers Valley, Antarctica: An Analog Depositional Record for Martian Lakes Through Late Noachian to Early Hesperian Climatic Transitions
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
Salvatore, Mark Robert G-066-M Collaborative Research: RAPID: Catalyzing a Joint US-NZ Spectral Repository of Antarctic Photoautotrophs in the Face of Ongoing Environmental Shifts
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
Stephens, Britton Bruce O-404-M Collaborative Research: Southern Ocean Carbon Gas Observatory (SCARGO)
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
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
van Gestel, Natasja Carla B-086-P Antarctica as a Model System for Responses of Terrestrial Carbon Balance to Warming
Wilson, David NMI G-090-P/S Global Seismographic Network (GSN) at South Pole Station, Palmer Station, and Scott Base
Wright, Matthew Stephen T-998-P Operation and Maintenance of a CTBT Radionuclide Monitoring Station at Palmer Station
Young, Duncan A I-185-M COLDEX Phase 2 - Airborne Geophysics Survey - Victoria Land Blue Ice Areas
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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