Alfred McEwen

Alfred McEwen
McEwen speaks during the First Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars, 2015
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 an American professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona. McEwen is a member of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory where he is the director of the Planetary Image Research Laboratory. He was 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.

He earned a Ph.D. in Planetary Geology in 1988 from Arizona State University.

McEwen participated in the Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, and Galileo spacecraft missions.

In 2015, McEwen received the Whipple Award for his work on HiRISE. In 2019, he received the G. K. Gilbert Award.

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