Find information about current USAP projects using the principal investigator, event number station, and other indexes. Find more information about USAP projects by viewing individual project web sites. 2011-2012 Field Season Other Information: Home Page Station Schedules Air Operations Staffed Field Camps Event Numbering System Find information about current USAP projects using the principal investigator, event Project Web Sites number station, and other indexes. Principal Investigator Index USAP Program Indexes Astrophysics and Geospace Sciences Dr. Vladimir Papitashvili, program manager Find more information about Organisms and Ecosystems USAP projects by viewing individual project web sites. Dr. Peter Milne, program director (acting) Earth Sciences Dr. Alexandra Isern, program manager 2011-2012 Field Season Glaciology Dr. Julie Palais, program manager Other Information: Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Home Page Dr. Peter Milne, program manager Integrated System Science Station Schedules Dr. Alexandra Isern, program manager (acting) Air Operations Institution Index Staffed Field Camps USAP Station and Ship Indexes Event Numbering System Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station McMurdo Station Palmer Station RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer ARSV Laurence M. Gould Special Projects Event Number Index Technical Event Index Deploying Team Members Index Find information about current USAP projects using the Project Web Sites principal investigator, event number station, and other indexes. Principal Investigator Event No. Project Title Ainley, David B-031-M Adelie Penguin response to climate change at the individual, Find more information about colony and metapopulation levels USAP projects by viewing individual project web sites. Anandakrishnan, Sridhar C-520-M WISSARD surface geophysics Ashworth, Allan G-294-M Collaborative Research: 2011-2012 Field Season Integrating geomorphological and Other Information: paleoecological studies to reconstruct Neogene Home Page environments of the Station Schedules Transantarctic Mountains Air Operations Barrett, John B-508-M McMurdo LTER - Landscape Ecology: Increased connectivity Staffed Field Camps in a polar desert resulting from Event Numbering System climate warming: McMurdo Dry Valley LTER Program Barwick, Steven A-127-M Development of hexagonal radio array for the ARIANNA ultra-high energy neutrino detector Bentley, Charles T-350-M Ice Coring and Drilling Services (ICDS) support for WAIS Divide Bieber, John A-120-M Cosmic ray observations at McMurdo Station Bindschadler, Robert C-407-M IPY: Collaborative Research: Ocean-ice sheet interaction in the Amundsen Sea: The keystone of West Antarctic stability Bockheim, James G-239-P Impact of recent climate warming on active-layer dynamics, permafrost, and soil properties on the western Antarctic Peninsula Bowser, Samuel B-043-M Evolution and diversity of Antarctic Rhizarian Protists Bristow, William A-369-M/S McMurdo and South Pole SuperDARN: Investigation of the ionospheric dynamics and magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling in Antarctica Carlstrom, John A-370-S Science Coordination Office for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (SCOARA-II) Carlstrom, John A-379-S Cosmological Research with the 10-meter South Pole Telescope Cassar, Nicolas O-405-L Physiological and ecosystem structure forcings on carbon fluxes in the Southern Ocean mixed layer Chereskin, Teresa O-313-N Collaborative research: Dynamics and transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Drake Passage Chereskin, Teresa O-317-L/N Collaborative research: Southern Ocean current observations from the U.S. Antarctic research vessels Chu, Xinzhao A-130-M Lidar Investigation of middle and upper atmosphere temperature, composition, chemistry, and dynamics at McMurdo, Antarctica Conway, Howard I-209-M Deglaciation of the Ross Sea Embayment - constraints from Roosevelt Island Cottle, John G-064-M Exploring the significance of NA- alkaline magmatism in subduction systems, a case study from the Ross Orogen Emslie, Steven D B-034-E/M Stable isotope analyses of pygoscelid penguin remains from active and abandoned colonies in Antarctica Engebretson, Mark J A-102-M/S Studies of solar wind - Magnetosphere interactions using observations of ULF waves at an extensive ground array at high latitudes Evenson, Paul A-120-M Cosmic ray observations at McMurdo Station Evenson, Paul A-118-S Element composition of high- energy solar particles Foreman, Christine B-046-M The biogeochemical evolution of dissolved organic matter in a fluvial system on the Cotton Glacier, Antarctica Fountain, Andrew B-504-M McMurdo LTER - Glaciers: Increased connectivity in a polar desert resulting from climate warming: McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER Program Fraser, Bill B-013-L/P Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (LTER): Looking back in time through marine ecosystem space, apex predator component Garrott, Robert B-009-M The demographic consequences of environmental variability and individual heterogeneity in life- history tactics of a long-lived Antarctic marine predator Gogineni, Prasad I-189-M Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) - Basler airborne radar survey Gogineni, Prasad I-185-M Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) - Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) operations Halzen, Francis A-333-S IceCube operations and maintenance Harvey, Ralph G-058-M Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) Hernandez, Gonzalo A-110-M/S Austral high-latitude atmospheric dynamics Hofmann, Gretchen B-134-M Ocean acidification: Integrated approaches to understanding effects on antarctic sea urchins, Sterechinus neumayeri Inan, Umran A-336-P ELF/VLF observation of whistler- mode waves, lightning discharge, and gamma-ray events from Palmer Station Johns, Bjorn T-295-M UNAVCO GPS survey support Karle, Albrecht A-107-S Collaborative Research: MRI-R2 instrument development of the Askaryan Radio Array, a large- scale radio Cherenkov neutrino detector at the South Pole Kemerait, Robert G-078-M Dry Valley seismic project Kennicutt, Mahlon B-518-M Temporal variability in natural and anthropogenic disturbance of McMurdo Station Kovac, John A-039-S Collaborative Research: BICEP2 and SPUD - A search for inflation with degree-scale polarimetry from the South Pole Kulesa, Craig A-364-S High Elevation Antarctic Terahertz (HEAT) telescopes for Dome A and Ridge A Kyle, Phillip G-081-M Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory III (MEVO III): Conduit processes and surveillance LaBelle, James A-128-S Outstanding Questions on Auroral Radiation Fine Structure Lazzara, Matt O-283-M/S Antarctic Automatic Weather Station (AWS) program Lee, Richard B-256-P Role of dehydration and photoperiodism in preparing an Antarctic insect for the polar night Lyons, W. Berry B-509-M McMurdo LTER - Geochemistry: Increased connectivity in a polar desert resulting from climate warming: McMurdo Dry Valley LTER Program Martinson, Doug B-021-L Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (LTER): Looking back in time through marine ecosystem space, physical oceanography component Mayewski, Paul I-173-M Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) project McKnight, Diane B-506-M McMurdo LTER - Streams: Increased connectivity in a polar desert resulting from climate warming: McMurdo Dry Valley LTER Program Moore, Robert C A-109- Collaborative Research: Antarctic M/P/S ELF/VLF observations of lightning and lightning-induced electron precipitation Morin, Paul T-434-M/P The Polar Geospatial Information Center: Joint support Naveen, Ron B-044-E Collaborative Research: Multispecies, multi-scale investigations of long-term changes in penguin and seabird populations on the Antarctic Peninsula Parker, Timothy T-299-M IRIS/PASSCAL seismic support Place, Sean B-199-M Ocean acidification–category 1: Identifying adaptive responses of polar fishes in a vulnerable ecosystem Priscu, John B-505-M McMurdo LTER - Lakes: Increased connectivity in a polar desert resulting from climate warming: McMurdo Dry Valley LTER Program Pryke, Clement A-149-S Collaborative Research: BICEP2 and SPUD - A search for inflation with degree-scale polarimetry from the South Pole Putkonen, Jaakko G-501-M Systematic analysis of the stability and ages of soil surfaces in Transantarctic Mountains Rack, Frank C-524-M WISSARD borehole drill contractor Severinghaus, Jeffrey I-476-M Collaborative Research: Replicate coring at WAIS Divide to obtain additional samples at events of high scientific interest Sprintall, Janet O-260-L The Drake Passage high-density XBT/XCTD program Steffen, Konrad I-077-E IPY: Stability of Larsen C Ice Shelf in a warming climate Steinberg, Deborah B-020-L/P Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (LTER): Looking back in time through marine ecosystem space, zooplankton component Stepp, Bill A-145-M NASA Long Duration Balloon (LDB) support program Sweeney, Colm O-214-L Collaborative research: Biogeochemical controls of the oxygen and carbon system in the Drake Passage Szuberla, Curt T-396-M Operation and maintenance of a CTBT class infrasound array at Windless Bight Taylor, Kendrick I-477-M WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office (SCO) Taylor, Michael A-119-M/S Investigating wave-driven mesospheric dynamics over South Pole using an advanced mesospheric temperature mapper Taylor, Michael A-119-M/S Development of an ANtarctic Gravity Wave Imager Network (ANGWIN) for collaborative mesospheric research Thoman, Bruce T-927-M NASA/McMurdo Ground Station (MG1) Wall, Diana B-507-M McMurdo LTER - Soils: Increased connectivity in a polar desert resulting from climate warming: McMurdo Dry Valley LTER Program Weatherwax, Allan T A-112-M