Project Lifecycle Overview
The lifecycle of a science project within the United States Antarctic Program is not trivial. Due to limited resource availablity on continent, it is critical that projects be planned to such a degree to ensure the most productive and useful science results from research.
The planning process it outlined in detail from the POLAR ICE home page, located at http://www.usap.gov/usapgov/scienceSupport/polarice/index.cfm?m=3.