Biography:Alfred McEwen
Alfred McEwen | |
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| Education | Ph.D |
| Alma mater | Arizona State University |
| Known for | HiRISE |
| Awards | Whipple Award, G. K. Gilbert Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Planetary Geology |
| Institutions | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory |
| Doctoral students | Cynthia B. Phillips |
| Website | www |
Alfred McEwen is a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona. McEwen is a member of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory where he directs the director of the Planetary Image Research Laboratory. He is a member of the imaging science team on the Cassini–Huygens mission to Saturn, co-investigator on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbit Camera team, and principal investigator of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.[1]
He earned a Ph.D. in Planetary Geology in 1988 from Arizona State University.[1]
McEwen participated in the Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, and Galileo science teams.[1]
In 2015, McEwen received the Whipple Award for his work on HiRISE.[2] In 2019, he received the G. K. Gilbert Award.[3]
Bibliography
- McEwen, Alfred S. (May 2013). "Mars in motion". Scientific American 308 (5): 44–51. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0513-58. PMID 23627221. Bibcode: 2013SciAm.308e..58M. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/long-arduous-quest-find-flowing-water-on-mars-over/. Retrieved 2016-02-09.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Biography". University of Arizona, Lunar Planetary Laboratory. https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/faculty/mcewen.
- ↑ "2015 Whipple Award Winner". LPL. https://twitter.com/UALPL/status/616626613170536448.
- ↑ "2019 G. K. Gilbert Award: Presented to Alfred McEwen". Geological Society of America. 2019. https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/About/awards/GSA/Awards/2019/gilbert.aspx.
- ↑ Scientific American often changes the title of a print article when it is published online. This article is titled "The Long and Arduous Quest to Find Flowing Water on Mars May Be Over" online.
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