Don Voigt
Don is a Senior Research Assistant at Penn State University. He has spent 15 years in Antarctica and six in Greenland conducting research and helping graduate students with their research on the physical properties of ice. This season, he is the Science Representative at WAIS Divide Ice Core Project for the start of the drilling efforts.
Don Voigt
Gifford Wong
My name is Gifford Wong and I am currently a PhD student at Dartmouth College studying the Greenland Ice Sheet with Dr Robert Hawley and Dr Erich Osterberg. Most of my eight seasons working with the US Antarctic Program have been with Helicopter Operations, and I'm now enjoying my second season with the WAIS Ice Core Project.
Gifford Wong
John Fegyveresi
My name is John Fegyveresi and I'm a graduate student in the Ice and Climate group at Penn State University. This is my third season at WAIS Divide where I'll again be studying the physical properties of the ice cores being drilled as well as the near-surface snow. My current research project involves understanding how seasonality and timing of accumulation can affect layering at high accumulation sites like WAIS Divide. My ultimate goal is to understand how different surface features are preserved at depth in the firn and if those features might be biasing various climate proxies.
John Fegyveresi
Tommy Cox
Tommy Cox recently graduated from the University of Nevada-Reno in Chemistry and worked at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, NV helping analyze polar ice cores. He also recently completed a short term as a student teacher at Heritage High School in Vancouver, WA. This is his second season as a core handler and his second time to the ice.
Tommy Cox
Aron Buffen
I am a Ph.D. student at Brown University working to understand past climate change in the Tropics using ice cores from the Andes of Peru. This is my first season working on the WAIS Divide project and I'm excited to see how ice cores are drilled Antarctica.
Aron Buffen
Dominic Winski
My name is Dom Winski and I'm a grad student at the University of Maine. I am currently studying energy balance and melt layer formation on alpine glaciers in Denali National Park.
Dominic Winski
Vasileios Gkinis
Vasileios is a PhD student at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. He originally comes from Greece where he studied physics. His interest in experimental physics carried him to the Netherlands where he mainly focused his study on laser spectroscopy and its use for measurements of water isotope ratios. He is mainly interested in the paleoclimatic information stored in the deep ice cores and has been working on performing high resolution online ice core measurements with melting devices and laser spectrometers. This is his first time in Antarctica while in the 3 years he participated in the North Eemian Deep Ice Core program in Greenland.
Vasileios Gkinis