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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ronni Grapenthin | Associate Professor | Fairbanks | Alaska | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Mount Erebus | Geodesy, GPS, GNSS, magma dynamics, crustal deformation, volcano geodesy, modeling |
| Emilie Sinkler | PhD Student | Fairbanks | Alaska | Antarctic Glaciology | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access | glaciology, ice deformation, ice cores, borehole logging |
| Dogacan Ozturk | Assistant Professor | Fairbanks | Alaska | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Geosciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | ground magnetic disturbances, geomagnetically induced currents, aurora |
| Kristin O Brien | Full Professor | Fairbanks | Alaska | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould | Antarctic fish, metabolism, temperature, hypoxia |
| 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 |
| John Postlethwait | Full Professor | Eugene | Oregon | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould | miRNA, sex chromosomes, X-cell disease, genomics, erythropoiesis |
| 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 |
| Joe Souney | Research Project Manager | Durham | New Hampshire | Antarctic Glaciology | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Other | ice cores, ice drilling, glaciology |
| William Muntean | Senior Associate (non-resident) | Dulles | Virginia | governance, geopolitics, tourism, history | Standing Committee - Humanities and Social Sciences | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | governance, geopolitics, tourism, history |
| 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 |
| Erin Pettit | Associate Professor | Corvallis | Oregon | Antarctic Glaciology | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - ship access, Dry Valleys, Other | glaciology, glacier dynamics, ice-ocean interactions, ice microstructure |
| Terry Palmer | Research Scientist | Corpus Christi | Texas | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Palmer Station | benthic, contamination, anthropogenic, community composition, monitoring |
| W Lyons | Full Professor | Columbus | Ohio | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Dry Valleys | geochemistry, biogeochemistry, streams and lakes, interdisciplinary |
| Jamey Stutz | Research Scientist | Columbus | Ohio | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access, Field camp - ship access | Glacial geology, cosmogenic nuclides, glacier reconstruction, repository |
| Kaeli Hughes | Assistant Professor | Columbus | Ohio | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | neutrino, radio, ultra-high-energy, ice, cosmic rays |
| Anne Grunow | Research Scientist | Columbus | Ohio | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | Repository, rock, dredge, till |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Colin Bischoff | Associate Professor | Cincinnati | Ohio | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | cosmology, astrophysics, cosmic microwave background, polarization |
| Cosmin Deaconu | Research Scientist | Chicago | Illinois | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | neutrinos, radio |
| Bradford Benson | Associate Professor | Chicago | Illinois | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | astrophysics, cosmology, telescopes, detectors, CMB |
| Karia Dibert | PhD Student | Chicago | Illinois | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | South Pole Telescope, Cosmic Microwave Background, Instrumentation, Detectors |
| Douglas MacAyeal | Full Professor | Chicago | Illinois | Antarctic Glaciology | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access | ice-shelf stability |
| Lauren Simkins | Assistant Professor | Charlottesville | Virginia | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | sedimentology, geomorphology, marine geology, subglacial hydrology |