U.S. Antarctic Program projects, 2009-2010

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U.S. Antarctic Program projects, 2009-2010

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 antarcticumon 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