The projects listed in the table below include a link to the principal investigator's web site (if available) and a link to the project's NSF award information and abstract. Links to project lists by science program are included in the left-hand navigation bar.
Principal Investigator
(Project Web site) |
Award No.
(NSF award information) |
Project Title |
| Adams, Byron |
0840979 |
Limits and Drivers of Metazoan Distributions in the TAM |
| Ainley, David |
0440643 |
Geographic structure of Adelie penguin populations: Demography of population change |
| Alley, Richard |
0539578 |
Physical properties of the WAIS Divide deep core |
| Amsler, Charles |
0838773 |
The chemical ecology of shallow-water marine macro-algae and invertebrates on the Antarctic Peninsula |
| Anderson, Dale |
NASA Award |
Lake Joyce Microbialites |
| Anderson, John |
0837925 |
History of and mechanisms leading to post-LGM retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
| Barbeau, David |
0732995 |
Testing the polar gateway glaciation hypothesis: The kinematic sedimentary, water-mass, and ice-volume record of Drake Passage opening |
| Barrett, John |
0838922 |
The role of snow patches on the spatial distribution of soil microbial communities and biogeochemical cycling in the antarctic dry valleys |
| Barwick, Steven |
0839133 |
Development of Station Technology for the ARIANNA Ultr-High Energy Neutrino Detector |
| Bay, Ryan |
0739743 |
Dust logging at Dome C for abrupt climate changes, large volcanic eruptions and bolide impacts |
| Bender, Michael |
0636731 |
Dating and paleoenvironmental studies on ancient ice in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica |
| Bentley, Charles |
0841135 |
Ice coring and drilling services (ICDS) support for WAIS Divide |
| Besson, Dave |
0826747 |
Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment (RICE) |
| Bieber, John |
073962 |
Cosmic Ray Observations at McMurdo Station |
| Bindschadler, Robert |
0732906 |
IPY: Ocean-Ice Sheet Interaction in the Amundsen Sea: The Keystone of West Antarctic Stability |
| Blankenship, Donald |
0733025 |
IPY Research: Investigating the Cryospheric Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate (ICECAP) |
| Bristow, William A. |
0853265 |
South Pole (McMurdo) SuperDARN |
| Buesseler, Kenneth |
0838866 |
WAP-flux: New tools to study the fate of phytoplankton production in the West Antarctic Peninsula |
| Butler, James |
NSF/NOAA agreement |
South Pole monitoring for climatic change |
| Butler, James |
NSF/NOAA agreement |
Collection of atmospheric air for the NOAA/GMD worldwide flask sampling network |
| Butler, Rhett |
EAR 0004370 |
Global seismograph station at South Pole and Palmer stations |
| Carlstrom, John |
0750083 |
Science Coordination Office for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (SCOARA) |
| Carlstrom, John |
0636937 |
South Pole observations to test cosmological models |
| Carpenter, Edward |
0739640 |
Biogeochemistry of cyanobacterial mats and hyporheic zone microbes in McMurdo Dry Valley glacial melt-water streams |
| Cassano, John |
0739464 |
Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice interaction in a coastal polynya |
| Chereskin, Teri |
0636493 |
Dynamics and transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Drake Passage |
| Chereskin, Teri |
0338103 |
Southern Ocean Current Observations from the U.S. Antarctic Research Vessels, 2010-14 |
| Cohn, Stephen |
0733007 |
NCAR facility support, scientific contributions and collaborative research to understand environmental change in Antarctica through participation in the international CONCRDIASI project |
| Comberiate, Mike |
NSF/NASA agreement |
NAILS, MTRS1, MTRS2, and SPTR |
| Costa, Daniel |
0838927 |
Weddell seals as autonomous sensors of the winter oceanography of the Ross Sea |
| Davis, Randall |
0739390 |
Hunting darkness: Behavioral and energetic strategies of Weddell seals in winter |
| Deshler, Terry |
0839124 |
Measurements of antarctic ozone and polar stratospheric cloud profiles in a time of decreasing atmospheric chlorine, climate change, and fluctuations in polar vortex strength |
| Domack, Eugene |
0732467 |
IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach - Marine and Quaternary Geosciences |
| Doran, Peter |
0423595 |
Role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER program |
| Doran, Peter |
NASA-ASTEP project |
NASA ASTEP: Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer (ENDURANCE) |
| Ducklow, Hugh |
0823101 |
Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (LTER): Looking back in time through marine ecosystem space, microbial ecology component |
| Emslie, Steven |
0739575 |
Stable isotope analyses of pygoscelid penguin remains from active and abandoned colonies in Antarctica |
| Engebretson, Mark |
0838917 |
Conjugate studies of ULF waves and magnetospheric dynamics using ground-based induction magnetometers at four, high-latitude manned sites |
| Engler, Elise |
0840003 |
Unpacking Antarctica |
| Evenson, Paul |
0838838 |
Measurement of cosmic ray response functions for an ice Cherenkov detector |
| Evenson, Paul Arthur |
0838839 |
Element Composition of High Energy Solar Particles |
| Foreman, Christine |
0838970 |
The biogeochemical evolution of dissolved organic matter in a fluvial system on the Cotton Glacier, Antarctica |
| Fountain, Andrew |
0423595 |
Role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER program |
| Fraser, Bill |
0823101 |
Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (LTER): Looking back in time through marine ecosystem space, apex predator component |
| Fritts, David |
0839084 |
Radar measurements of large- and small-scale dynamics of the MLT on the Antarctic Peninsula with an existing MF radar and a new generation meteor radar at British and Brazilian bases |
| Garrott, Robert |
0635739 |
Interactions of environmental variability, life-history traits, and demography in an apex Antarctic predator |
| Gillies, John |
0636218 |
Dynamics of aeolian processes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica |
| Gogineni, Prasad |
0424589 |
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) |
| Gogineni, Prasad |
0424589 |
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) - Ground Seismics |
| Gogineni, Prasad |
0424589 |
CReSIS - UAV Operations |
| Greenberg, Stanley |
0840007 |
Photographs of the IceCube neutrino observatory |
| Gutierrez, Carlos |
0848627 |
Frozen Planet |
| Halzen, Francis |
0639286 |
IceCube operations and maintenance |
| Hargreaves, Geoffrey |
NSF/USGS agreement |
National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) |
| Harvey, Ralph |
0839168 |
Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) |
| Hernandez, Gonzalo |
0838888 |
Austral, high-latitude atmospheric dynamics |
| Huerta, Audrey |
0739713 |
Byrd Glacier: Evidence for plateau collapse |
| Inan, Umran |
0538242 |
ELF/VLF observation in the Southern Pacific Ocean |
| Inan, Umran |
0636928 |
A VLF beacon transmitter at South Pole |
| Inan, Umran |
0538627 |
ELF/VLF observation of lightning discharge, whistler-mode waves and electron precipitation at Palmer Station |
| Johns, Bjorn |
EAR 0321760 |
UNAVCO GPS survey support |
| Joughin, Ian |
0631973 |
Constraining the mass balance deficit of the Amundsen Coast's glaciers |
| Kemerait, Robert |
NSF/DOD MOA |
Dry Valley seismic project |
| Kennicutt, Mahlon |
0354573 |
Temporal variability in natural and anthropogenic disturbance of McMurdo Station |
| Kim, Stacy |
0619622 |
Development of a remotely operated vehicle for under-ice research in polar environments |
| Kirschvink, Joseph |
0739541 |
Upper Cretaceous-Lower Paleocene strata from the James Ross Island region: Chemo-, magneto-, and biomarker tests of intercontinental correlation and extinction hypotheses |
| Kovac, John |
0742818 |
BICEP and SPUD — A search for inflation with degree-scale polarimetry from the South Pole |
| Kurbatov, Andrei |
0631973 |
Exploring a 2 Million + Year Ice Climate Archive-Allan Hills Blue Ice Area (2MBIA) |
| Kyle, Philip |
0838817 |
Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory III (MEVO III): Conduit processes and surveillance. |
| LaBelle, James |
0838745 |
Multi-instrument studies of auroral plasma radiation |
| Lazzara, Matthew |
0636873 |
Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Program (AWS), 2007-2010 |
| Lazzara, Matthew |
0838834 |
Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (2009-2012) |
| Lee, Richard |
0837559 |
Role of Dehydration and Photoperiodism in preparing an Antarctic insect for the polar night |
| Lessard, Marc |
0636874 |
Polar Experiment Network for Geospace Upper atmosphere Investigations (PENGUIn) — Advancing the vision for global studies |
| Linder, Chris |
0839980 |
Raptor of the South |
| Lyons, Berry |
0423595 |
Role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER program |
| MacPhee, Ross |
0636639 |
Vertebrate paleontology of Livingston Island, South Shetlands, Antarctica |
| Manahan, Donal |
0504072 |
A graduate training program in Antarctica: Integrative biology and adaptation of antarctic marine organisms |
| Martinson, Doug |
0732656 |
SASSI mooring array in the western Antarctic Peninsula |
| Martinson, Doug |
0823101 |
Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (LTER): Looking back in time through marine ecosystem space, physical oceanography component |
| McCarthy, Kevin |
NSF/NASA agreement |
NASA/McMurdo Ground Station (MGS) |
| McKay, Christopher |
NASA ASTEP Award |
IceBite: An auger and sampling systems for ground ice on Mars |
| McKee, Anna |
0840099 |
Ice cores, translucent truths from the antarctic ice sheet |
| McKnight, Diane |
0423595 |
Role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER program |
| Mende, Stephen |
0636899 |
Antarctic auroral imaging |
| Millan, Robyn |
NSF/NASA agreement |
Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL) |
| Mitchell, John |
NSF/NASA agreement |
Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting Spectrometer (BESS) |
| Morin, Paul |
0753663 |
The Antarctic Geospatial Information Center:
Collecting, Creating, Delivering and Archiving for the Community |
| Naveen, Ron |
0739430 |
Multispecies, Multiscale Investigations of Long-term Changes in Penguin and Seabird Populations on the Antarctic Peninsula |
| Neill, Christopher |
0732955 |
IPY:
Improving the Public’s Understanding of Polar Research through
Hands-On Fellowships for Science Journalists in the Arctic and Antarctic |
| Nitsche, Frank-Oliver |
0838735 |
Cross-shelf troughs as indicators of ice sheet dynamics along the West Antarctic continental margin |
| Nowacek, Douglas |
0739483 |
The ecological role of a poorly studied antarctic krill predator, the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) |
| Nyblade, Andy |
0537371 |
A broadband seismic experiment to image the lithosphere beneath the Gamburtsev Mountains, East Antarctica |
| Orsi, Alejandro |
0839005 |
Atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions in the eastern Ross Sea |
| Palo, Scott |
0538672 |
Collaborative study of the Antarctic mesosphere and lower thermosphere |
| Parker, Timothy |
0619708 |
Iris/Passcal |
| Priscu, John |
0423595 |
Role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER program |
| Saito, Mak |
0732665 |
Comparative genomic and proteomic survey of major antarctic marine phytoplankton: A foundation for polar phytoplankton genomics |
| Scambos, Theodore |
0732921 |
Abrupt environmental change in the Larsen Ice Shelf system, a multi-disciplinary approach — Cryosphere and oceans (LARISSA) |
| Schofield, Oscar |
0823101 |
Palmer Longer Term Ecological Research (LTER): Looking back in time through marine ecosystem space (phytoplankton component) |
| Seo, Eun-Suk |
NSF/NASA agreement |
Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM) |
| Severinghaus, Jeffrey |
0839031 |
A "horizontal ice core" for large-volume samples of the past atmosphere |
| Simms, Alexander |
0838781 |
Constraining the deglaciation of the Antarctic Peninsula using OSL dated beach deposits |
| Sivjee, Gulamabas |
0636706 |
Observation of upper-atmospheric energetics, dynamics, and long-term variations over South Pole Station |
| Skidmore, Mark |
0636770 |
Biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology of Taylor Glacier basal ice |
| Soreghan, Gerilyn |
0842639 |
Development of Quantitative weather indicators in proximal alluvial sediments to assess glacial activity in the rock record |
| Sprintall, Janet |
0337998 |
The Drake Passage high-density XBT/XCTD Program |
| Steffen, Konrad |
0732946 |
Stability of Larsen C Ice Shelf in a Warming Climate |
| Steinberg, Deborah |
0823101 |
Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (LTER): Looking back in time through marine ecosystem space, zooplankton component |
| Stepp, Bill |
NSF/NASA agreement |
NASA Long Duration Ballooning (LDB) |
| Sweeney, Colm |
0636975 |
Processes driving spatial and temporal variability of surface pCO2 in the Drake Passage |
| Szuberla, Curt |
NSF/CTBT MOA |
Operation and maintenance of a CTBT class infrasound array at Windless Bight |
| Taylor, Kendrick |
0440817 |
Investigation of climate, ice dynamics, and biology using a deep ice core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
| Taylor, Michael |
0542164 |
Quantifying the role of short-period gravity waves on the antarctic mesospheric dynamics using Advanced Mesospheric Temperature Mapper (AMTM) |
| Torres, Joseph |
0741348 |
Possible climate-induced change in the distribution of Pleuragramma antarcticum on the Western Antarctic Peninsula shelf |
| Trivelpiece, Wayne |
0839129 |
Penguins as monitors of the krill-centric Southern Ocean marine ecosystem |
| Tulaczyk, Slawek |
0636970 |
Elevation change anomalies in West Antarctica — Do they provide constraints on subglacial water transport beneath ice streams and their tributaries? |
| Vernet, Maria |
0732983 |
IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larsen Ice Shelf System, a Multidisciplinary Approach-Marine Ecosystems |
| Virginia, Ross |
0423595 |
Role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER program |
| Wall, Diana |
0423595 |
Role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER program |
| Warren, Stephen |
0739779 |
Ocean surfaces on Snowball Earth |
| Weatherwax, Allan T. |
0840158 |
Polar Experiment Network for Geospace Upper-atmosphere Investigations: PENGUIn |
| Weatherwax, Allan T. |
0638587 |
Study of the polar ionosphere and magnetosphere from Antarctic measurements |
| Wilson, Terry |
0632322 |
IPY POLENET-Antarctica: Investigating links between geodynamics and ice sheets |
| Wu, Norbert |
0732907 |
Poles Apart: Visual documentation of the marine ecosystems of the polar regions |
| Wyatt, Michael |
0739702 |
Orbital spectral mapping of surface compositions in the antarctic Dry Valleys: Regional distributions of secondary mineral-phases as climate indicators |
| Zesta, Eftyhia |
0636939 |
South American Meridional B-Field Array (SAMBA): An American-Chilean chain |
