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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julie Schram | Assistant Professor | Juneau | Alaska | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould | Antarctic peninsula, benthic ecology, invertebrates, climate change, food webs |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Christian Sidor | Full Professor | Seattle | Washington | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | Field camp - fixed wing access, Field camp - helicopter access | Triassic, paleontology, fossil |
| Lauren Simkins | Assistant Professor | Charlottesville | Virginia | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Geosciences Group | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | sedimentology, geomorphology, marine geology, subglacial hydrology |
| Emilie Sinkler | PhD Student | Fairbanks | Alaska | Antarctic Glaciology | Geosciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - fixed wing access | glaciology, ice deformation, ice cores, borehole logging |
| 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 |
| Eric Sokol | Research Scientist | Boulder | Colorado | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Dry Valleys | ecology, biodiversity, modeling, metacommunity, FAIR data |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ignacio Taboada | Full Professor | Atlanta | Georgia | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Expert Group - Astronomy and Astrophysics | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | Neutrinos, astrophysics |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Nick Teets | Associate Professor | Lexington | Kentucky | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould | terrestrial ecosystems, environmental stress, insects, genomics, entomology |
| Maya Thomas | PhD Student | Gloucester Point | Virginia | Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, ARSV Laurence M. Gould | zooplankton, krill, salps, biological pump, WAP |
| Kirsty Tinto | Lamont Associate Research Professor | Palisades | New York | Antarctic Integrated System Science | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Other | Ice-shelf, geology, aerogeophysics, gravity |
| Natasja van Gestel | Assistant Professor | Lubbock | Texas | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station | climate change, mosses, nutrients, carbon, warming |
| Maria Vernet | Research Scientist | La Jolla | California | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Palmer Station, RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | polar phytoplankton, ecology, physiology, primary production, ice-ocean interactions |
| 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 |
| 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, |
| 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 |
| Julia Wellner | Associate Professor | Houston | Texas | Antarctic Integrated System Science | Geosciences Group | RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer | Thwaites Glacier, Amundsen Sea, ice-sheet retreat, sedimentology, marine geology |
| 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. |
| 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 |