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US Antarctic Scientists Directory
The intent of the Directory is to have a list of scientists who work in the US Antarctic Program (USAP). Currently the only list readily available is through the NSF Awards Database, and this listing is only of NSF principal investigators. There are many more scientists (e.g., students, post-docs, staff scientists, etc.), including those funded by other agencies, who are involved in USAP. The US Antarctic Scientists Directory compiled by US-SCAR will serve as a resource for new Antarctic proposers, will provide a means for people currently involved in USAP activities to find potential collaborators, will allow the general public to learn more about USAP activities and accomplishments, and provide a number of other benefits to the US Antarctic community.
To add your name to the Directory, please complete the Directory Registration Form.
If you have questions about the use and intent of the Directory, contact Deneb Karentz, US Delegate to SCAR. If at any time you need to make a correction to your listing or you would like to be deleted from the Directory, please use this form to request changes to your entry in the US Antarctic Scientists Directory.
| Name | Position | City | State | NSF Antarctic Program | SCAR Science Group Affiliation | Antarctic Research Location(s) | Research Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Byron Adams | Full Professor | Provo | Utah | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Dry Valleys | climate change, Dry Valleys, ecosystem, genomics, Long Term Ecological Research, LTER |
| Terry Palmer | Research Scientist | Corpus Christi | Texas | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Palmer Station | benthic, contamination, anthropogenic, community composition, monitoring |
| Trevor Williams | Research Scientist | College Station | Texas | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | Field camp - fixed wing access, Other | ice sheet evolution, paleoclimate, marine geology, provenance, Southern Ocean |
| Andrew Klein | Full Professor | College Station | Texas | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, Dry Valleys | Environmental Monitoring, Cryosphere |
| Duncan Young | Research Scientist | Austin | Texas | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Other | radioglaciology, potential fields, aerogeophysics, old ice, data |
| Julia York | PhD Student | Austin | Texas | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | notothenioids, neuroscience, evolution, TRP channels |
| Julia Wellner | Associate Professor | Houston | Texas | Antarctic Integrated System Science | Geosciences Group | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | Thwaites Glacier, Amundsen Sea, ice-sheet retreat, sedimentology, marine geology |
| Natasja van Gestel | Assistant Professor | Lubbock | Texas | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station | climate change, mosses, nutrients, carbon, warming |
| Hongjie Xie | Full Professor | San Antonio | Texas | Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - ship access, Other | sea ice thickness, freeboard, polynya, remote sensing, surface melting |
| Daniel Morgan | Principal Senior Lecturer, Associate Dean | Nashville | Tennessee | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access, Dry Valleys | glacial geology, cosmogenic nuclides, landscape evolution, provenance |
| Matthias Plum | Assistant Professor | Rapid City | South Dakota | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | astrophysics, cosmic rays |
| Kelton McMahon | Assistant Professor | Narragansett | Rhode Island | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Geosciences Group | Palmer Station, Field camp - ship access, Cape Crozier, Other | biogeochemistry, climate change, geochemistry, penguins, seals |
| Sridhar Anandakrishnan | Full Professor | University Park | Pennsylvania | Antarctic Glaciology | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Field camp - fixed wing access | glaciology, geophysics, seismology, glacier dynamics |
| Ian Murray | Research Scientist | Carlisle | Pennsylvania | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Standing Committee - Humanities and Social Sciences | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | International Relations with Antarctica; Latin American relationships with Antarctica; Antarctic Treaty System |
| Michael Campana | PhD Student | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | astrophysics, particle physics, neutrinos, high energy physics |
| Naoko Kurahashi Neilson | Associate Professor | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | Neutrino Astronomy |
| Kayla Leonard DeHolton | Post-Doctoral Scholar | University Park | Pennsylvania | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | neutrino, neutrino physics, IceCube, South Pole |
| Michele Devlin | Full Professor | Carlisle | Pennsylvania | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Standing Committee - Humanities and Social Sciences | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely), Other | climate migration; food security; Antarctic social sciences; Antarctic Treaty System; environmental security |
| Jose de Arimateia da Cruz | Research Professor | Carlisle | Pennsylvania | Polar Cyberinfrastructure | Standing Committee - Humanities and Social Sciences | McMurdo Station, Palmer Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, Field camp - ship access, Cape Crozier, Dry Valleys, Mount Erebus | climate change, environmental politics, climate change and transnational organized crime, climate change and migration, climate change and food security. |
| Benjamin Ogden | Assistant Professor | Carlisle | Pennsylvania | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Standing Committee - Antarctic Geographic Information | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | Antarctica and space; training for space operations; NASA and Antarctica; Antarctica curriculum; strategic security of the Southern Polar Region |
| Atsuhiro Muto | Associate Professor | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | Antarctic Glaciology | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access | glaciology, geophysics |
| Aaron Galloway | Associate Professor | Charleston | Oregon | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, Other | trophic ecology, fatty acids, trophic biomarkers, SCUBA |
| Scott Borg | Retired NSF - serves as director of Antarctic Sciences and various other NSF leadership positions. | Seaside | Oregon | Served as director of all Antarctic Sciences for 15 years and in other NSF leadership roles. | Standing Committee - Antarctic Geographic Information | Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access | Granitoid, granite petrogenesis, Strontium and Neodymium isotopes, tectonics, |
| Thomas Desvignes | Post-Doctoral Scholar | Eugene | Oregon | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould | fish, genomics, X-cell, adaptation and evolution, climate change |
| Michelle Pratt | Program Manager | Corvallis | Oregon | Polar STEAM works with researchers across a wide spectrum of research disciplines | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Palmer Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access, Field camp - ship access, Cape Crozier, Dry Valleys, Mount Erebus, No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely), Other | broader impacts, education, artist, writer, communication |