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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Ariel Waldman | Formal Collaborator | San Francisco | California | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - helicopter access, Dry Valleys | microbiology, Dry Valleys, LTER, astrobiology, invertebrates, |
| Deneb Karentz | Full Professor | San Francisco | California | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | phytoplankton, ultraviolet radiation |
| Joanna Kelley | Associate Professor | Santa Cruz | California | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely), Other | adaptation, molecular biology, genomics, population genetics, fish |
| Megan Cimino | Research Scientist | Santa Cruz | California | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | penguins, LTER, climate change, seabirds |
| 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, |
| Hannah Dawson | Post-Doctoral Scholar | Seattle | Washington | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | Astrobiology, microbiology, metabolism, sea ice, mass spectrometry |
| David Reusch | Adjunct | Seattle | Washington | Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | polar meteorology, polar climate, climate modeling, numerical weather prediction, satellite remote sensing |
| Christian Sidor | Full Professor | Seattle | Washington | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access | Triassic, paleontology, fossil |
| Eric Steig | Full Professor | Seattle | Washington | Antarctic Glaciology | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access, Field camp - ship access | Ice cores, paleoclimate, ice dynamics, geochemistry, climate |
| William Fraser | President and Lead Investigator | Sheridan | Montana | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, Field camp - ship access | Evolution, Ecology, Marine Top Predaros, Foraging Ecology, Seabirds |
| Philip Kyle | Professor Emeritus of Geochemistry | Socorro | New Mexico | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access, Cape Crozier, Mount Erebus | volcanology, hazards, geochemistry, petrology, tephra |
| Nelia Dunbar | Program Director | Socorro | New Mexico | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access, Cape Crozier, Dry Valleys, Mount Erebus, Other | volcanoes, explosive eruptions, tephra, ice cores, geochemistry |
| Weisen Shen | Assistant Professor | Stony Brook | New York | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Field camp - fixed wing access | Seismic structure; Continental Crust; Geothermal Heat Flux. |
| Zheyang Chen | PhD Student | Stony Brook | New York | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | neutrino physics |
| Jeroen Ingels | Research Faculty | St. Teresa | Florida | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Other | benthos, biodiversity, climate change, ecosystem function |
| Paul Fitzgerald | Full Professor | Syracuse | New York | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access, Dry Valleys, Other | geology, tectonics, thermochronology |
| Samantha Hansen | Full Professor | Tuscaloosa | Alabama | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access | tectonics, Earth structure, tomography, geodynamics |
| Lily de Araujo | Undergraduate | Tuscaloosa | Alabama | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | neutrino, neutrino physics, astrophysics, particle astrophysics |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Igor Appel | Research Scientist | Washington | District of Columbia | Antarctic Glaciology | Physical Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | remote sensing, modeling, snow, sea ice |
| Marc Shepanek | Program Executive Analogs and Extreme Environments | Washington | District of Columbia | Life Sciences | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Palmer Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Dry Valleys, Mount Erebus | analog, space, medicine, psychology, isolation |
| Ken Halanych | Program Director | Wilmington | North Carolina | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | genomics, invertebrates, marine, phylogenetics, population |
| Steven Emslie | Full Professor | WILMINGTON | North Carolina | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Other | ornithology, paleoecology, foraging ecology, stable isotopes, mercury analyses |