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United States
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
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 |
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Anne Grunow | Research Scientist | Columbus | Ohio | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | Repository, rock, dredge, till |
Frank Nitsche | Research Scientist | Palisades | New York | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | geophysics, geomorphology, data management, marine geology, bathymetry, seismic |
Terry Palmer | Research Scientist | Corpus Christi | Texas | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Palmer Station | benthic, contamination, anthropogenic, community composition, monitoring |
James Weygand | Research Scientist | Los Angeles | California | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Field camp - fixed wing access | inospheric currents, substorms, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, interhemispheric asymmetry, auroral imaging. |
Michelle Salzano | Research Scientist | Boulder | Colorado | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | ULF waves, substorms, search coil magnetometers, induction magnetometers, geospace |
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 |
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 |
Paolo Desiati | Research Scientist | Madison | Wisconsin | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | Astrophysics, neutrino astronomy, cosmic rays, particle propagation, heliosphere |
Benedikt Riedel | Research Scientist | Madison | Wisconsin | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | neutrino astrophysics |
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 |
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. |
Jeroen Ingels | Research Faculty | St. Teresa | Florida | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Other | benthos, biodiversity, climate change, ecosystem function |
Zhonghua Xu | Research Assistant Professor | YORKTOWN | Virginia | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Field camp - fixed wing access | geospace/space sciences/polar observations |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Joshua Sobrin | Post-Doctoral Scholar | Batavia | Illinois | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | Cosmic Microwave Background, Cosmology, Instrumentation |
Abhishek Desai | Post-Doctoral Scholar | Madison | Wisconsin | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | astrophysics, neutrino astronomy, multi-messenger astrophysics, IceCube |
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