Biography:Alfred McEwen

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Alfred McEwen
EducationPh.D
Alma materArizona State University
Known forHiRISE
AwardsWhipple Award, G. K. Gilbert Award
Scientific career
FieldsPlanetary Geology
InstitutionsLunar and Planetary Laboratory
Doctoral studentsCynthia B. Phillips
Websitewww.lpl.arizona.edu/faculty/mcewen

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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Biography". University of Arizona, Lunar Planetary Laboratory. https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/faculty/mcewen. 
  2. "2015 Whipple Award Winner". LPL. https://twitter.com/UALPL/status/616626613170536448. 
  3. "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. 
  4. 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.