If all goes according to plan, the field party will consist of:
- Ralph Harvey, Principal Investigator and team leader
- John Schutt, Field safety officer and mountaineer
- Cari Corrigan, Case Western Reserve University
- Maggie Taylor, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Duck (known as Dave Mittlefehldt to his mother), NASA Johnson Space Center
- Matthew Genge, Natural History Museum, London
- Linda Martel, University of Hawaii
- Nancy Chabot, Case Western Reserve University
- Juanita Ryan, from NSF's Teacher's Experience Antarctica program
- Jamie Pierce, Summit Expeditions (mountaineer)