Listed below are projects conducted by U.S. researchers at or near McMurdo Station during the 2007-2008 austral summer and 2008 winter. Where possible, a link is also provided to the researcher's web site for additional information.
| Principal Investigator |
Project Title |
|
Ainley, David |
Geographic structure of Adelie Penguin populations:
Demography of population change
Web site: http://www.penguinscience.com
NSF award: ANT 04-40643 |
|
Albert, Mary |
Norwegian-United States IPY scientific traverse: Climate
variability and glaciology in East Antarctica
Web site: http://traverse.npolar.no
NSF award: ANT 05-38495 |
| Alley, Richard |
Collaborative research: Physical properties of the WAIS Divide deep core
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 05-39578 |
| Anadakrishnan, Sridhar |
IPY: Flow dynamics of two Amundsen Sea glaciers: Thwaites and Pine Island
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 06-32198 |
| Ananthaswamy, Anil |
To the edge of reason: Pilgrimages to the holy sites of cosmology
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 06-37460 |
|
Bieber, John |
Solar and heliospheric studies with antarctic cosmic ray
observations
Web site: http://www.bartol.udel.edu/~neutronm/
NSF award: ANT 05-37878 |
| Bindschadler, Robert |
IPY: Collaborative Research: Ocean-Ice Sheet Interaction in the Amundsen Sea: The Keystone of West Antarctic Stability
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 07-32906 |
|
Blanchette, Robert |
Studies of antarctic fungi: Adaptive stratigies for
survival and protecting Antarctica's historic
structures
Web site: http://forestpathology.coafes.umn.edu/antarctica.htm
NSF award: ANT 05-37143 |
|
Catania, Ginny |
Grounding line forensics: The history of grounding line
retreat in the Kamb Ice Stream outlet region
Web site: http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/glf/
NSF award: ANT 05-38120 |
|
Dempsey, John |
Physics and mechanics of the breakup of warm antarctic
sea ice: In-situ experiments and modeling
Web site: http://people.clarkson.edu/~john/JPD_Docs
/Award_Number_0338226.htm
NSF award: ANT 03-38226 |
| Deshler, Terry |
Measurements addressing the initial stages of ozone recovery, the nucleation of, index of refraction of, and existence of large PSC particles
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 05-38679 |
| DeVries, Arthur |
Environmental, organismal and evolutionary physiology of freeze avoidance in antarctic Notothenoid fishes
Web Site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 06-36696 |
|
Doran, Peter |
The role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages
between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold
desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER
program
Web site: http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/home.htm
NSF award: ANT 04-23595 |
|
Engebretson, Mark |
Conjugate studies of ULF waves and magnetospheric
dynamics using ground-based induction magnetometers at
four high-latitude manned sites
Web site:http://www.augsburg.edu/physics/antindex.htm
NSF award: ANT 05-38379 |
| Fabry, Victoria |
Impacts of elevated pCO2 on a dominant aragonitic pteropod (Thecosomata) and its specialist predator (Gymnosomata) in the Ross Sea
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 05-38710 |
| Farrell, John Michael |
IPY: Engaging Antarctica
Web site:
NSF award: ANT 06-32175 |
| Fitzpatrick, Joan |
National Ice Laboratory—Support for the WAIS Divide ice core drilling program
Web site: http://www.waisdivide.unh.edu/
NSF award: NSF/USGS agreement |
|
Fountain, Andrew |
The role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages
between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold
desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER
program
Web site:http://www.mcmlter.org/
NSF award: ANT 04-23595 |
| Fraser-Smith, Antony |
The operation of an ELF/VLF radiometer at Arrival Heights
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 06-37005 |
|
Garrott, Robert |
The Interactions of Environmental Variability, Life
History Traits, and Demography in an Apex Antarctic
Predator
Web site:http://pal.lternet.edu/
NSF award: ANT 06-35739 |
| Gillies, John |
Dynamics of Aeolian Processes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Web Stie: Not available
NSF award: ANT 06-36218 |
|
Gogineni, Prasad |
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)
Web site: http://www.cresis.ku.edu
NSF award: ANT 04-24589 |
|
Griffin, Ken |
NASA/McMurdo Ground Station (MGS)
Web site: http://scp.gsfc.nasa.gov/gn/index.htm
NSF award: NSF/NASA agreement |
|
Haines-Stiles, Geoff |
POLAR-PALOOZA
Web site: http://passporttoknowledge.com/polar-palooza
NSF award: ANT 06-32262 |
| Hall, Brenda |
Grounding-line retreat in the southern Ross Sea - constraints from Scott Glacier
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 06-36687 |
| Harpp, Karen |
Collaborative Research: The transition from subduction to extensional magmatism in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica
Web site:
NSF award: ANT 06-36269 |
|
Harvey, Ralph |
The Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET)
Web site: http://geology.case.edu/~ansmet/
NSF award: ANT 05-38211 |
| Harwood,
David |
ANDRILL: Investigating Antarctica's role in Cenozoic
global environmental change
Web site:http://andrill.org
NSF award: ANT 03-42484 |
|
Harwood, David |
ANDRILL
Web site: http://www.andrill.org
NSF award: ANT 03-42484 |
|
Hernandez, Gonzalo |
Austral high-latitude atmospheric dynamics
Web site: http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/
NSF award: ANT 05-38621 |
|
Horning, Markus |
Collaborative Research: Aging in Weddell Seals: Proximate
mechanisms of age-related changes in adaptations to
breath-hold hunting in an extreme environment.
Web site:http://mmi.oregonstate.edu/pearl/antarctica
NSF award: ANT 04-40780 |
|
Johns, Bjorn |
UNAVCO GPS survey support
Web site: http://facility.unavco.org/polar
NSF award: EAR 03-21760 |
| Johnson, Bruce |
Altitude symptoms at the South Pole
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 05-40710 |
|
Kannen, Christopher |
Parhelion pemmican pack-ice pancake: Antarctica
compressed on canvas
Web site: http://www.chriskannen.com
NSF award: ANT 06-38404 |
| Kemerait, Robert C. |
Dry Valley seismic project
Web site: http://www.aftac.gov
NSF award: NSF/OPP-DoD MOA |
|
Kennicutt, Mahlon |
Temporal variability in natural and anthropogenic
distrubance of McMurdo Station
Web site: http://antarctica.tamu.edu
NSF award: ANT |
|
Kim, Stacy |
Development of a remotely operated vehicle for under ice
research in polar environments
Web site: http://scini.mlml.calstate.edu/
NSF award: ANT 06-19622 |
| Kurz, Mark |
Periglacial landscape evolution in Antarctic lava flows and glacial tills
Web site:
NSF award: ANT 06-36629 |
|
Kyle, Philip |
Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory II (MEVO II):
Surveillance, models, impacts and outreach
Web site: http://erebus.nmt.edu/
NSF award: ANT 05-38414 |
|
Lazzara, Matthew |
Collaborative research: Antarctic Automatic Weather
Station Program (AWS): 2007-2010
Web site: http://ice.ssec.wisc.edu/aws.html
NSF award: ANT 06-36873 |
|
Lessard, Marc |
Collaborative Research: Polar Experiment Network for
Geospace Upper atmosphere Investigations (PENGUIn) -
Advancing the vision for global studies
Web site: http://www.space-antarctica.org
NSF award: ANT 06-36874 |
|
Linder, Chris |
IPY: Live from the Poles: A multimedia educational
experience
Web site: http://polardiscovery.whoi.edu
NSF award: ANT 06-32219 |
|
Lyons, W. Berry |
The role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages
between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold
desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER
program
Web site: http://www.mcmlter.org
NSF award: ANT 04-23595 |
|
Manahan, Donal |
A graduate training program in Antarctica: Integrative
biology and adaptation of antarctic marine organisms
Web site: http://antarctica.usc.edu/
NSF award: ANT 05-04072 |
|
Marsh, Bruce |
3-D dynamics of the Ferrar Magmatic Mush Column, Dry
Valleys
Web site: http://silvermagma.eps.jhu.edu
NSF award: ANT 04-40718 |
|
Mayewski, Paul |
A Science Management Office for the United States
Component of the International Trans Antarctic Expedition
(US ITASE SMO): A collaborative program of research from
Taylor Dome to South Pole
Web site: http://www2.umaine.edu/USITASE
NSF award: ANT 04-40679 |
|
McKnight, Diane |
The role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages
between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold
desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER
program
Web site: http://www.mcmlter.org/
NSF award: ANT 04-23595 |
|
Mitchell, John |
Balloon-borne Experiment with a Superconducting
Spectrometer (BESS)
Web site: http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/
gamcosray/hecr/BESS/BESS.html
NSF award: NSF/NASA Agreeement |
|
Moran, Amy |
Collaborative Research: Effects of oxygen and temperature
on egg mass function of Southern Ocean marine
invertebrates
Web site: http://www.clemson.edu/~moran
NSF award: ANT 05-51969 |
| Nyblade, Andrew |
Collaborative Research: A broadband seismic experiment to image the lithosphere beneath the Gamburtsev Mountains, East Antarctica
Web site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/%7emstuding/AGAP/
NSF award: ANT 05-37371 |
|
Oftedal, Olav |
Capital expenditure, lactation energetics, and the
importance of foraging to Weddell seals and their
pups
Web site: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/
AquaticEcosystems/Antarctica/default.cfm
NSF award: ANT 05-38592 |
| Polli, Andtrea |
90ºS
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 06-37379 |
|
Ponganis, Paul |
The aerobic dive limit: Oxygen transport and depletion in
Emperor penguins
Web site: http://antarctic.ucsd.edu
NSF award: ANT 05-38594 |
| Powell, Anthony |
A time-lapse study of Antarctica
Web site:
NSF award: ANT 06-37614 |
|
Prentice, Michael |
Fluctuations of the West Antarctic Ice-Sheet in relation
to lake history in Taylor Valley since the Last Glacial
Maximum
Web site: http://mypage.iu.edu/~mlprenti
NSF award: ANT 05-40073 |
|
Prescott, William |
Collaborative research: Development of a power and
communication system for remote autonomous GPS and
seismic stations in Antarctica
Web site: http://facility.unavco.org/project_support/polar/polar.html
NSF award: ANT 06-19908 |
|
Priscu, John |
Microbial diversity and function in the permanently
ice-covered lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys
Web site: http://www.mcm-dvlakesmo.montana.edu
NSF award: MCB 02-37335 |
|
Priscu, John |
The role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages
between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold
desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER
program
Web site: http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~lkbonney/
NSF award: ANT 04-23595 |
|
Priscu, John |
Collaborative Research: IPY-plankton dynamics in the
McMurdo Dry Valley Lakes during the transition to polar
night
Web site: http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~lkbonney/
NSF award: ANT 06-31494 |
| Rankin, Moira |
IPY: Pole to Pole
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 06-32194 |
| Saltzman, Matthew |
The Permian-Triassic transition in Antarctica: Rate, timing, and pattern of climate change in high latitude Gondwana
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 06-36824 |
|
Seo, Eun-Suk |
Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM)
Web site: http://cosmicray.umd.edu/cream/cream.html
NSF award: NSF/NASA Agreement |
| Skidmore, Mark |
Biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology of Taylor Glacier basal ice
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 06-36770 |
|
Sletten, Ronald |
Ground ice dynamics in hyperarid soils of the McMurdo Dry
Valleys, Antarctica
Web site: http://depts.washington.edu/icylands/
NSF award: ANT 06-36998 |
|
Stearns, Charles |
Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC)
Web site: http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu
NSF award: ANT 05-37827 |
| Stepp, Bill |
NASA Long Duration Ballooning (LDB)
Web site: http://www.csbf.nasa.gov
NSF award: NSF/NASA Agreement |
|
Szuberla, Curt |
Operation and Maintenance of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) class infrasound
array in Windless Bight
Web site: http://www.gi.alaska.edu/infrasound/
NSF award: ANT NSF/CTBT MOA |
|
Taylor, Kendrick |
Investigation of climate, ice dynamics, and biology,
using a deep ice core from the West Antarctic Ice
Sheet
Web site: http://www.waisdivide.unh.edu
NSF award: ANT 04-40817 |
|
Thompson, Linda |
Wallops Flight Facility component of the CREAM balloon
payload
Web site: http://cosmicray.umd.edu/cream/cream.html
NSF award: NSF/NASA Agreement |
| Tulaczyk, Slawek |
Collaborative research: Elevation change anomalies in West Antarctica - Do they provide constraints on subglacial water transport beneath ice streams and their tributaries?
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 06-36970 |
|
Virginia, Ross |
The role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages
between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold
desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER
program
Web site: http://mcmlter.org
NSF award: ANT 04-23595 |
|
Wall, Diana |
The role of resource legacy on contemporary linkages
between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in a cold
desert ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valley LTER
program
Web site: http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/projects/soil/MCM/index.html
NSF award: ANT 04-23595 |
| Warnick, Wendy |
IPY: PolarTREC - Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating
Web site: http://www.polartrec.com/
NSF award: ANT
06-32401 |
|
Weatherwax, Allan T |
Studies of the polar ionosphere and magnetosphere from
measurements in Antarctica
Web site: http://www.siena.edu/physics/polar/
NSF award: ANT 06-38587 |
|
Wefel, John |
Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC)
Web site: http://atic.phys.lsu.edu/aticweb/
NSF award: NSF/NASA Agreement |
| Wilch, Thomas |
Late Cenozoic volcanism and glaciation at Minna Bluff: Implications for antarctic cryosphere history
Web site: Not available
NSF award: ANT 05-38342 |
|
Wilson, Terry |
Collaborative Research: IPY: POLENET-Antarctica:
Investigating Links between Geodynamics and Ice
Sheets
Web site: http://www.polenet.org
NSF award: ANT 06-32322 |
|
Zesta, Eftyhia |
South American Meridional B-Field Array (SAMBA): An
American-Chilean chain
Web site: http://samba.atmos.ucla.edu
NSF award: ANT 06-36939 |
