The Antarctic Research Group at Boston University is lead by Dr. David Marchant. Current graduate students include Sean Mackay, Jen Lamp, and Christine Harrington. Former graduate students include Dr. Jane Willenbring, Dr. Adam Lewis, Dr. Doug Kowalewski, and Dr. Kate Swanger.

Marchant's ongoing NSF funded research projects focus on:

1. Age, origin, and climatic significance of buried ice in the Dry Valleys region, southern Victoria Land

2. Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to middle Miocene global change

3. Tephrochronology applied to late Cenozoic climate change and geomorphic evolution of the central Transantarctic Mountains

4. Microclimate zones in the Dry Valley region: implications for landscape evolution and climate change on Mars

5. Deducing late Neogene Antarctic climate from fossil-rich lacustrine sediments in the Dry Valleys

Recent media coverage of Dr. Marchant and the Antarctic Working Group's research can be found here.