Alfred McEwen

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 students
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

  • McEwen, Alfred S. (May 2013). "Mars in motion". Planetary Science. Scientific American. 308 (5): 44–51. Bibcode:2013SciAm.308e..58M. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0513-58. PMID 23627221. Retrieved 2016-02-09.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Biography". University of Arizona, Lunar Planetary Laboratory. 30 October 2024.
  2. ^ "2015 Whipple Award Winner". LPL.
  3. ^ "2019 G. K. Gilbert Award: Presented to Alfred McEwen". GSA Awards. Geological Society of America. 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
  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.