Eugene Domack
Professor of Geology
Hamilton College
Clinton New York 13323

Gene Domack has 23 years of Antarctic experience the last 14 in the Peninsula region. Gene's interests lie in understanding the natural record of environmental variability locked in glacial marine sediments in fjords and inner coastal basins on both sides of the Peninsula. He currently is on the Distinguished Speaker List of the Ocean Drilling Program, serves on the Antarctic Research Vessel Oversight Committee, and is currently investigating the paleorecord of Antarctica's disintegrating ice shelves. Gene is a member of the Sedimentary Research Society, American Geophysical Union, International Glaciological Society, and the American Quaternary Association.

Adam W. Burnett
Associate Professor of Geography
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346

Adam Burnett's research focuses on middle tropospheric circulation variability in the midlatitudes and its impact on surface climate. Recent work includes an examination of the Southern Hemisphere winter 500-hPa circumpolar vortex and its relationship with the semiannual oscillation. Although most of his work examines circulation as captured though the instrumental meteorological record, Adam is also engaged in several studies that seek to reconstruct atmospheric circulation using paleoenvironmental proxies. This work includes efforts to understand the roles that storm tracks and air mass advection patterns play in driving the isotopic composition of modern precipitation and the use of these relationships to interpret isotopic records captured in Central New York lake sediments.

Matt Kirby
PhD candidate, Syracuse University
Department of Earth Sciences
Syracuse New York 13224

Matt Kirby has a diverse background in paleoclimate studies ranging from undergraduate work in the Antarctic Peninsula, studies in the North Atlantic (Heinrich stratigraphy at INSTAAR), and currently investigations into ultrahigh resolution (lake) records of mid-latitude Holocene climate change.

Amy Leventer
Assistant Professor of Geology
Colgate University
Hamilton New York 13346

Amy Leventer has been working in the Antarctic since 1981 and has pioneered the use of diatom floristic analysis of environmental signals in recent sediments of the Antarctic continental shelf. She has served with several ecological field programs including ROAVERS.