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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oscar Schofield | Full Professor | Princeton | New Jersey | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | phytoplankton, gliders, climate change |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| David Holland | Full Professor | New York | New York | Antarctic Integrated System Science | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - ship access | ice-ocean interactions |
| Becky Ball | Full Professor | Glendale | Arizona | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, Field camp - helicopter access, Field camp - ship access, Dry Valleys, Other | soil ecology, biogeochemistry, soil biodiversity, plant-soil interactions, environmental change |
| 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 |
| Amy Moran | Full Professor | Honolulu | Hawaii | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station | Polar gigantism, ecophysiology, benthic ecology, larvae, embryos, Antarctica |
| Albrecht Karle | Full Professor | Madison | Wisconsin | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | astrophysics, neutrino astronomy, cosmic rays, multi-messenger astrophysics |
| Douglas MacAyeal | Full Professor | Chicago | Illinois | Antarctic Glaciology | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access | ice-shelf stability |
| Alison Murray | Full Professor | Reno | Nevada | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | microbial ecology, genomics, adaptation, oceanography, hypersaline brine, evolution |
| 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 |
| Lynne Talley | Full Professor | La Jolla | California | Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | ocean circulation, air-sea buoyancy and carbon exchange, impacts of circulation on sea ice and ice shelves |
| Ignacio Taboada | Full Professor | Atlanta | Georgia | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | Neutrinos, astrophysics |
| 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 |
| C Robert Clauer | Full Professor | Newport News | Virginia | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Geosciences Group | Field camp - fixed wing access | Space Physics, magnetospheric physics, space weather |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, |
| Jim Madsen | Executive Director | Madison | Wisconsin | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | neutrinos, cosmic rays, neutron monitors, education and outreach, solar physics |
| Louise Huffman | Director of Education and Outreach for the US Ice Drilling Program | Rotonda West | Florida | Antarctic and Arctic Earth Sciences/Polar Programs | Geosciences Group | Other | climate change education, science communication, ice science research, polar education resources, ice core drilling |
| 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 |
| 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 |