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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cole Kelleher | Manager - Research Staff | Saint Paul | Minnesota | Polar Cyberinfrastructure | Standing Committee - Antarctic Geographic Information | McMurdo Station, Dry Valleys, No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely), Other | GIS, Remote Sensing, Imagery, Data, Geography |
| Robert Jacobel | Full Professor | Northfield | Minnesota | Antarctic Glaciology | Physical Sciences Group | Field camp - fixed wing access | glacier dynamics, ice penetrating radar, ice sheet evolution, ice streams, ice core site selection |
| Andrew Mahon | Full Professor | Mt. Pleasant | Michigan | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | ARSV Laurence M. Gould, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | sea spiders, invertebrates, molecular ecology, phylogeography, evolution |
| Trista Vick Majors | Assistant Professor | Houghton | Michigan | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access, Dry Valleys | Microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, limnology, subglacial aquatic environments, life in ice |
| Finnian Mayhew | PhD Student | East Lansing | Michigan | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | particle physics, neutrino physics, non-standard neutrino interactions, beyond-the-Standard-Model physics |
| James Fastook | Full Professor | Orono | Maine | Antarctic Glaciology | Geosciences Group | Other | ice sheet modeling |
| Seth Campbell | Assistant Professor | Orono | Maine | Antarctic Glaciology | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access | GPR, ground-penetrating radar, paleoclimate, glaciology, permafrost |
| Brenda Hall | Full Professor | Orono | Maine | Antarctic Glaciology | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access, Dry Valleys | glacial geology, radiocarbon, exposure dating, lakes, seals |
| Paul Mayewski | Full Professor | Orono | Maine | Antarctic Glaciology | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Palmer Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access, Field camp - ship access, Cape Crozier, Dry Valleys, Mount Erebus | glaciology, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, |
| Erik Blaufuss | Research Scientist | College Park | Maryland | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | neutrino, neutrino astronomy, South Pole |
| Larry Hothem | Senior Geodesist | Bethesda | Maryland | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Field camp - helicopter access, Other | Geodesy, measurements, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), coordinate reference systems, absolute gravity |
| Weifeng Zhang | Research Scientist | Woods Hole | Massachusetts | Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | polynya circulation, biophysical interaction, ocean-ice shelf interaction |
| Ann Tarrant | Full Professor | Woods Hole | Massachusetts | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould | copepod, diapause, zooplankton, metabolism, lipid |
| Rebecca Gast | Associate Professor | Woods Hole | Massachusetts | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | ARSV Laurence M. Gould, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | phototrophy, heterotrophy, mixotrophy, microbial food web, plankton ecology |
| Melisa Diaz | Post-Doctoral Scholar | Woods Hole | Massachusetts | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - helicopter access, Dry Valleys | geochemistry, biogeochemistry, terrestrial, hydrology, Dry Valleys |
| Christian Buckingham | Research Scientist | New Bedford | Massachusetts | Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | ocean remote sensing, mesoscale and submesoscale dynamics, ocean and atmospheric turbulence |
| Yaqin Liu | Research Scientist | Woods Hole | Massachusetts | Antarctic Integrated System Science | Standing Committee - Humanities and Social Sciences | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | marine policy, MPA |
| Daniel Zitterbart | Associate Professor | Woods Hole | Massachusetts | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Other | ecosystem, penguins, remote sensing |
| Carlos Arguelles | Assistant Professor | Cambridge | Massachusetts | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | McMurdo Station | IceCube neutrino new physics |
| Alan Gaul | PhD Student | Woods Hole | Massachusetts | Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | Polar oceanography, ice shelf-ocean interaction |
| Shaina Sadai | PhD Student | Amherst | Massachusetts | Antarctic Integrated System Science | Geosciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | climate modeling, climate change, sea level rise, ice sheet modeling, climate justice |
| Allan Weatherwax | Full Professor | North Andover | Massachusetts | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Palmer Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | geospace, space sciences, radio astronomy |
| Allyson Kristan | Master's Student | Baton Rouge | Louisiana | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | penguins, seals, stable isotopes, paleoecology |
| Peter Doran | Full Professor | Baton Rouge | Louisiana | Antarctic Integrated System Science | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Dry Valleys | lakes, Long Term Ecological Research, climate, Dry Valleys, LTER |
| Michael Polito | Associate Professor | Baton Rouge | Louisiana | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, Field camp - ship access, Other | penguins, seals, foraging ecology, food webs, stable isotopes |