Principal Investigators

Sridhar Anandakrishnan is an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Alabama. Much of his previous research has been aimed at understanding the stabiliy of the West Antarctic ice sheet using seismic techniques. In January, Anandakrishnan will rejoin the geosciences faculty at Penn State, where he was formerly a research associate in the Earth System Science Center.

Andy Nyblade is an assistant professor of geosciences at Penn State whose investigations of crust and mantle structures have led him to conduct broadband seismographic experiments in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Kenya.

Doug Wiens is a professor of earth and planetary science at Washington University in St. Louis. He has previously led seismographic deployment expeditions in Chilean Patagonia, the Shetland Islands, Fiji, and off the tip of the Antarctic peninsula.

Our Correspondent

John Pollack, a freelance writer, was a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and before that for Congressman David Bonior. He has been a reporter for the Hartford Courant, and spent three years in Spain as a freelance foreign correspondent. jdpollack@aol.com

Research and technical staff

Bruce Long, electrical engineer, Penn State
Tim Parker; PASSCAL Instrument Center, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Patrick Shore, technical staff, Wash. U.
Rigobert Tibi, postdoctoral researcher, Wash. U.
Don Voigt, technical staff, Penn State

Graduate students

Maggie Benoit, Penn State
Jesse Fisher, Wash. U.
Juliette Florentin, Penn State
Yongtao Luo, Alabama

Others on the team

Jennifer Curtis, an elementary-school teacher science teacher in Fall River, Massachusetts, participating in the Teachers Experiencing Antarctica program.
Joseph (Ted) Voigt, an undergraduate student in liberal arts at Penn State, and son of Antarctic veteran Don Voigt.