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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 U.S. National Science Foundation (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Anna Wright | PhD Student | Boulder | Colorado | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Field camp - helicopter access, Dry Valleys | hydrology, biogeochemistry, carbon, ecosystem |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Julia York | PhD Student | Austin | Texas | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | notothenioids, neuroscience, evolution, TRP channels |
| Duncan Young | Research Scientist | Austin | Texas | Antarctic Earth Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Field camp - fixed wing access, Other | radioglaciology, potential fields, aerogeophysics, old ice, data |
| Weifeng Zhang | Research Scientist | Woods Hole | Massachusetts | Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | No fieldwork (all research conducted remotely) | polynya circulation, biophysical interaction, ocean-ice shelf interaction |
| Yucheng Zhao | Research Scientist | Logan | Utah | Antarctic Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences | Physical Sciences Group | McMurdo Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | mesosphere, gravity waves, dynamics |
| Daniel Zitterbart | Associate Professor | Woods Hole | Massachusetts | Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems | Life Sciences Group | Other | ecosystem, penguins, remote sensing |