Current Grants

• HiRISE: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: NASA/JPL
• LROC: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: NASA/GSFC
• Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS): ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter: ESA
• Europa Imaging System (EIS): Europa Clipper: NASA/APL

Current Spacecraft Involvement

• Principal Investigator of the Io Volcano Observer (IVO) Phase A study in 2020
• Co-Investigator on Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) on ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (launch 2016)
• Principal Investigator of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
• Co-Investigator, LROC team on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission to the Moon
• Deputy-PI of the Europa Imaging System (EIS) on the Europa Clipper Mission (launch 2022 or later)

Former Spacecraft Involvement

• Participating scientist on Mars Odyssey THEMIS
• Participating scientist on Mars Global Surveyor MOC
• Interdisciplinary Scientist on the Galileo mission to Jupiter
• Science team member on the Clementine mission to the Moon
• Guest Investigator for the Voyager Neptune encounter
• Principal Investigator of the High-resolution Stereo Color Imager (HiSCI) on the ESA/NASA ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO)
• Member of the imaging science team of the Cassini mission to Saturn, 1990-2018

Current Graduate Students

Former Students

• Cecilia Leung, 2020 (Ph.D. PTYS)
• Ethan Schaefer, 2018 (Ph.D. PTYS)
• Corwin Atwood-Stone, 2018 (Ph.D. PTYS)
• Donna Viola, 2017 (Ph.D. PTYS)
• Ingrid Daubar, 2014 (Ph.D. PTYS)
• Maria Banks, 2009 (Ph.D. Geosciences)
• Colin Dundas, 2009 (Ph.D. PTYS)
• Andrea Jones, 2009 (M.S. Geosciences)
• Kelly Kolb, 2008 (M.S. PTYS), 2009 (Ph.D. PTYS)
• Stephanie Fussner, 2006 (M.S. PTYS)
• Moses Milazzo, 2005 (Ph.D. PTYS)
• Brandon Preblich, 2005 (M.S. PTYS)
• Jani Radebaugh, 2005 (Ph.D. PTYS)
• Ross Beyer, 2004 (Ph.D. PTYS)
• Peter Lanagan, 2004 (Ph.D. PTYS)
• Cynthia Phillips, 2000 (Ph.D. PTYS)
• Jennifer Grier, 1999 (Ph.D. PTYS)

Former Postdocs

• Veronica Bray
• Matthew Chojnacki
• Colin Dundas
• Jennifer Fernando
• Lazslo Keszthelyi
• Elizabeth Turtle
• Marion Masse
• Chris Okubo
• Livio Tornabene

Current Research/Staff Scientists

• Veronica Bray

Former Research/Staff Scientists

• Matt Chojnacki

Based on Google Scholar and NASA ADS: NASA ADS Author search: Alfred S. McEwen

Recent refereed publications: Years 2019 through 2021

Valantinas, A., Becerra, P., Pommerol, A., Tornabene, L. L., Affolter, L., Cremonese, G., Hauber, E., McEwen, A. S., Munaretto, G., Pajola, M., Bowen, A. Parkes, Patel, M. R., Rangarajan, V. G., Schorghofer, N., & Thomas, N. 2021, Planetary and Space Science. CaSSIS Color and multi-angular observations of martian slope streaks

Krasner, Sanford M., Bruvold, Kristoffer, Call, Jared A., Fieseler, Paul D., Klesh, Andrew T., Michael Kobayashi, M., Lay, Norman E., Lim, Ryan S., Morabito, David D., Oudrhiri, Kamal, Wallace, Mark, Grimes, Andrew H., Palagi, Timothy, Litton, Daniel K., Signori, Gina M., & McEwen, Alfred S. 2021, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. Reconstruction of Entry, Descent, and Landing Communications for the InSight Mars Lander

Mills, Mackenzie M., McEwen, Alfred S., & Okubo, Chris H. 2021, Geophysical Research Letters. A Preliminary Regional Geomorphologic Map in Utopia Planitia of the Tianwen-1 Zhurong Landing Region

Cable, Morgan L., Porco, Carolyn, Glein, Christopher R., German, Christopher R., MacKenzie, Shannon M., Neveu, Marc, Hoehler, Tori M., Hofmann, Amy E., Hendrix, Amanda R., Eigenbrode, Jennifer, Postberg, Frank, Spilker, Linda J., McEwen, Alfred, Khawaja, Nozair, Hunter Waite, J., Wurz, Peter, Helbert, Jörn, Anbar, Ariel, de Vera, Jean-Pierre, & Núñez, Jorge 2021, The Planetary Science Journal. The Science Case for a Return to Enceladus

Dundas, Colin M., Becerra, Patricio, Byrne, Shane, Chojnacki, Matthew, Daubar, Ingrid J., Diniega, Serina, Hansen, Candice J., Herkenhoff, Kenneth E., Landis, Margaret E., McEwen, Alfred S., Portyankina, Ganna, & Valantinas, Adomas 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets). Active Mars: A Dynamic World

Diniega, S., Bramson, A. M., Buratti, B., Buhler, P., Burr, D. M., Chojnacki, M., Conway, S. J., Dundas, C. M., Hansen, C. J., McEwen, A. S., Lapôtre, M. G. A., Levy, J., Mc Keown, L., Piqueux, S., Portyankina, G., Swann, C., Titus, T. N., Widmer, J. M. 2021, Geomorphology Modern Mars' geomorphological activity, driven by wind, frost, and gravity

McEwen, A. S., Schaefer, E. I., Dundas, C. M., Sutton, S. S., Tamppari, L. K., Chojnacki, M. 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets) Mars: Abundant Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL) Following the Planet Encircling Dust Event (PEDE) of 2018

Dundas, C. M., Mellon, M. T., Conway, S. J., Daubar, I. J., Williams, K. E., Ojha, L., Wray, J. J., Bramson, A. M., Byrne, S., McEwen, A. S., Posiolova, L. V., Speth, G., Viola, D., Landis, M. E., Morgan, G. A., Pathare, A. V. 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets) Widespread Exposures of Extensive Clean Shallow Ice in the Midlatitudes of Mars

Park, Ryan S., Riedel, Joseph E., Ermakov, Anton I., Roa, Javier, Castillo-Rogez, Julie, Davies, Ashley G., McEwen, Alfred S., & Watkins, Michael M. 2020, Planetary and Space Science. Advanced Pointing Imaging Camera (APIC) for planetary science and mission opportunities

Golombek, M., Williams, N., Warner, N. H., Parker, T., Williams, M. G., Daubar, I., Calef, F., Grant, J., Bailey, P., Abarca, H., Deen, R., Ruoff, N., Maki, J., McEwen, A., Baugh, N., Block, K., Tamppari, L., Call, J., Ladewig, J., Stoltz, A., Weems, W. A., Mora-Sotomayor, L., Torres, J., Johnson, M., Kennedy, T., & Sklyanskiy, E. 2020, Earth and Space Science. Location and Setting of the Mars InSight Lander, Instruments, and Landing Site

Munaretto, G., Pajola, M., Cremonese, G., Re, C., Lucchetti, A., Simioni, E., McEwen, A. S., Pommerol, A., Becerra, P., Conway, S. J., Thomas, N., & Massironi, M. 2020, Planetary and Space Science. Implications for the origin and evolution of Martian Recurring Slope Lineae at Hale crater from CaSSIS observations

Daubar, I. J., Lognonné, P., Teanby, N. A., Collins, G. S., Clinton, J., Stähler, S., Spiga, A., Karakostas, F., Ceylan, S., Malin, M., McEwen, A. S., Maguire, R., Charalambous, C., Onodera, K., Lucas, A., Rolland, L., Vaubaillon, J., Kawamura, T., Böse, M., Horleston, A., van Driel, M., Stevanović, J., Miljković, K., Fernando, B., Huang, Q., Giardini, D., Larmat, C. S., Leng, K., Rajšić, A., Schmerr, N., Wójcicka, N., Pike, T., Wookey, J., Rodriguez, S., Garcia, R., Banks, M. E., Margerin, L., Posiolova, L., & Banerdt, B. 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets). A New Crater Near InSight: Implications for Seismic Impact Detectability on Mars

Thomas, M. F., McEwen, A. S., & Dundas, C. M. 2020, Icarus. Present-day mass wasting in sulfate-rich sediments in the equatorial regions of Mars

Perrin, C., Rodriguez, S., Jacob, A., Lucas, A., Spiga, A., Murdoch, N., Lorenz, R., Daubar, I. J., Pan, L., Kawamura, T., Lognonné, P., Banfield, D., Banks, M. E., Garcia, R. F., Newman, C. E., Ohja, L., Widmer-Schnidrig, R., McEwen, A. S., & Banerdt, W. B. 2020, Geophysical Research Letters. Monitoring of Dust Devil Tracks Around the InSight Landing Site, Mars, and Comparison With In Situ Atmospheric Data

Wang, Alian, Ling, Zongcheng, Yan, Yuanchao, McEwen, Alfred S., Mellon, Michael T., Smith, Michael D., Jolliff, Bradley L., & Head, James 2019, Icarus. Subsurface Cl-bearing salts as potential contributors to recurring slope lineae (RSL) on Mars

Bart, Gwendolyn D., Daubar, Ingrid J., Ivanov, Boris A., Dundas, Colin M., & McEwen, Alfred S. 2019, Icarus. Dark halos produced by current impact cratering on Mars

Schaefer, E. I., McEwen, A. S., & Sutton, S. S. 2019, Icarus. A case study of recurring slope lineae (RSL) at Tivat crater: Implications for RSL origins

Dundas, C. M., McEwen, Alfred S., Diniega, S., Hansen, C. J., Byrne, S., & McElwaine, J. N. 2019, Geological Society of London Special Publications. The formation of gullies on Mars today

Hendrix, Amanda R., Hurford, Terry A., Barge, Laura M., Bland, Michael T., Bowman, Jeff S., Brinckerhoff, William, Buratti, Bonnie J., Cable, Morgan L., Castillo-Rogez, Julie, Collins, Geoffrey C., Diniega, Serina, German, Christopher R., Hayes, Alexander G., Hoehler, Tori, Hosseini, Sona, Howett, Carly J. A., McEwen, Alfred S., Neish, Catherine D., Neveu, Marc, Nordheim, Tom A., Patterson, G. Wesley, Patthoff, D. Alex, Phillips, Cynthia, Rhoden, Alyssa, Schmidt, Britney E., Singer, Kelsi N., Soderblom, Jason M., & Vance, Steven D. 2019, Astrobiology. The NASA Roadmap to Ocean Worlds