Plantary Sciences Department -- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

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Dr. Alfred S. McEwen

With LPL since: 1996

Current Projects:
*Mapping Titan's surface
*Geology of Mars
*Impact cratering on planets and satellites
*Volcanology of Io

Current LPL PhD students:
* Colin Dundas

* Kelly Kolb

* Moses Milazzo

Past LPL PhDs:
* Ross Beyer

* Jennifer Grier

* Peter Lanagan

* Cynthia Phillips

* Jani Radebaugh

Current LPL MS Students:

* Brandon Preblich

* Stephanie Fussner

HiRISE/PIRL group:

*Kathi Baker

*Brad Castalia

*Andrew Davidson

*Doug Dawson

*Ingrid Daubar

*Eric Eliason

*Terry Forrester

*Rod Heyd

*Linda Hickcox

*Pete Hubbard (Astronomy Dept.)

*Robert King

*Rich Leis

*Douglas Meredith (Geography Dept.)

*Guy McArthur

*Loretta McKibben

*Tahirih Motazedian

*Chris Okubo

*Jason Perry

*Joe Plassmann

*Chris Schaller

*Daniel Studer

*Elizabeth Turtle (Asst. Research Scientist)

Classes taught:
* PTYS 195 Ideas and Philosophy of Carl Sagan

* PTYS 206 Golden Age of Planetary Exploration

* PTYS 442 Mars

* PTYS 555 Remote Sensing of Planetary Surfaces

Selected Memberships/Committee Positions:
* Member GSA, AAS/DPS, AGU, IAVCEI

Spacecraft involvement:
*Voyager 2, guest investigator at Neptune encounter
*Galileo SSI science team
*Clementine science team
*Cassini ISS science team
*Mars Global Surveyor MOC Science team
*Mars Odyssey, THEMIS science team
*Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, HiRISE
*Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LROC

Recent references:

*Keszthelyi, L., and A. McEwen, Comparison of flood lavas on Earth and Mars, Chapter 7 of Environments on Earth: Clues to the Geology of Mars, M. Chapman, Ed., in press, 2005.

*McEwen, A.S., Keszthelyi, L., Lopes, R.M.C., Schenk, P., and Spencer, J.R., The lithosphere and surface of Io, Chapter 14 of Jupiter, Edited by Bagenol, F., et al., 2004.

*Porco, C.C., et al., Imaging of Titan from the Cassini spacecraft. Nature 434, 159-168, 2005.

*McEwen, A.S., Preblich, B.S., Turtle, E.P., Artemieva, N.A., Golombek, M.P., Hurst, M., Kirk, R.L., Burr, D.M., Christensen, P.R., The rayed crater Zunil and interpretations of small impact craters on Mars. Icarus 176, 351-381, 2005.

*Bergstrom, J.W., Delamere, A.W., McEwen, A.S., MRO High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE): Instrument calibration and operating constraints. IAC-04-Q.3.b.02, 7 pp., 2004.


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