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Team members with dinosaur hunters Judd Case and James Martin explore the rocks on James Ross Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula.
Team members with dinosaur hunters Judd Case and James Martin on James  Ross Island.

Personnel
2006-2007

The total number of people entering and leaving Antarctica and the ships over the course of the summer will be about 3,000. The U.S. Antarctic Program peak population at any given moment will be about 1,600 on land and 300 on the ships.

Approximately 70 percent of U.S. Antarctic Program science personnel and greater than 90 percent of operations personnel transit New Zealand and McMurdo.

About one-fourth of science personnel and less than 10 percent of operations personnel transit South America to Antarctic Peninsula locations.
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