Conferences, Committees, and Workshops
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A crowd gathers at Scott's Discovery Hut near McMurdo Station.
A crowd gathers at Scott's Discovery Hut near
McMurdo Station.

USAP Annual Planning Meeting
The annual USAP planning meeting, featuring goals, special topics, point papers, and budget and logistical discussion. (Restricted to APC participants).

U.S. National Science Foundation United States Antarctic Program Science Workshop – Communications (2011)
A multi-discipline science workshop sponsored by the NSF Office of Polar Programs to explore the future communications requirements anticipated by the Antarctic science community over the coming decade.

User Committees
Feedback from the science user committees that represent user communities at the USAP stations and onboard the vessel.

International Polar Diving Workshop Proceedings
The NSF, Smithsonian Institution, NERC Facility for Scientific Diving, and Diving Unlimited International co-sponsored this workshop, which constitutes an International Polar Year (IPY) contribution from the international polar scientific diving community.

McMurdo Ground Station Science Workshop—2004
Information, options, and recommendations for deciding how to collect and provide transmitted data from the polar orbiting satellites used by the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP).

Proceedings from NSF USAP Communications Workshop—1999
The goal of this workshop was to define South Pole Station communications requirements and to develop the short and long-term strategies to support those requirements based on available and planned systems.

Workshops Relevant to NSF Support of Polar Research
Reports on the hundreds of NSF-sponsored workshops that influence program goals, investigators' proposals, and funding decisions related to polar research.