Scientists

Chief Scientist

John Priscu

Professor, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University

• Aquatic Biogeochemist/Ecosystem Ecologist

Executive Committee

Brad Rosenheim

Associate Professor, College of Marine Sciences, University of South Florida

Brent Christner

Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida

• Microbial ecology and environmental microbiology

Helen Amanda Fricker

Professor IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography UCSD

• Glaciologist, GPS and satellite radar/laser altimetry for estimates of lake activity

James McManis

Manager, Engineering & Science Research Support Facility, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

• Engineering & Manufacturing Management, design of deep and shallow ice drilling equipment, manufacturing, machining & fabrication

Principal Investigators

John Dore

Associate Research Professor, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Science, Montana State University

• Geobiology and biogeochemistry

Amy Leventer

Professor, Department of Geology, Colgate University

• Diatom biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments

Berry Lyons

Professor, School Director, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ohio State University

• Geochemistry

Mark Skidmore

Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University

• Biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology

David Harwood

Professor and Stout Chair in Stratigraphy, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences; Director, Antarctic Science Management Office, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

• Diatom biostratigraphy and sedimentology; management – Hot Water Drilling Team

Eugene Domack

Link to Obituary

Professor of Geological Oceanography, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida

Project Staff

Cindy Dean

Project Manager

Dennis Duling

Lead Driller, Senior Researcher, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

Bob Zook

ROV Operator, Chief Engineer, SCINI Team, Antarctic Science Management Office, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

Justin Burnett

Driller & ROV Operator, Mechanical Engineer, Applied Physics Lab., University of Washington, contracted through University of Nebraska – Lincoln

Mark Bowling

ROV Operator, Mechanical Engineer, SCINI Team, Antarctic Science Management Office, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

John Winans

ROV Operator, Control System Engineer, Research Associate, Center for Research Computing and Data, Northern Illinois University, contracted through University of Nebraska – Lincoln

Dar Gibson

Senior Driller, Antarctic Science Management Office, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

Jonas Kalin

Senior Driller, contracted through University of Nebraska – Lincoln

Anatoly Mironov

Driller, Electronics Shop Manager, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

• Development, design, manufacturing, upgrade, maintenance, repair and technical support of various electronic equipment

Edwin Krula

Driller, Welding Technician, Antarctic Science Management Office, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

James Roth

Driller, University of Delaware, contracted through University of Nebraska – Lincoln

David McPike

SCINI Primary Software Engineer, contracted through University of Nebraska – Lincoln

Post Doc

Wei Li

Post Doctoral Scientist, Department Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University

• Microbial ecology and geomicrobiology

Graduate Students

August Steigmeyer

PhD Candidate, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University

Ryan Venturelli

PhD student, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida

Christina Davis

PhD candidate, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida

Cathy Trainor

MFA Candidate, Education and Outreach Intern, School of Film and Photography, Montana State University

Timothy Campbell

M.S. Candidate, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University

Chloe Gustafson

PhD Candidate, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University

• Hydrologic imaging using electromagnetic methods

Collaborators

Matthew Siegfried

Researcher, Assistant Professor, Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines

Carlo Barbante

Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Director of the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes, University Ca’Foscari Venice

Martyn Tranter

Professor, Director, Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK

• Biogeochemical processes in the cryosphere

Ok-Sun Kim

PhD in Microbial Ecology, Senior Research Scientist Division of Polar Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute

Trista Vick-Majors

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University

• Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology

Alex Michaud

Postdoctoral scientist, Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark

• Cryosphere geomicrobiology

Joel Barker

Assistant Professor, School of Earth Sciences, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University

• Biogeochemistry, black carbon

Molly Patterson

Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies, Binghamton University, SUNY

• Sedimentology, stratigraphy and paleoclimatology

Alan Gagnon

Research Specialist-Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

• National Ocean Sciences AMS sample preparation lab manager

Christopher Gardner

Research Scientist, School of Earth Sciences, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University

• Geochemistry

Jon Hawkings

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Fellow, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory/Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State University, USA & Interface Geochemistry, GFZ-Postdam, Germany

• Geochemistry