Alfred McEwen

Dr. Alfred McEwen is a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona. McEwen is a member of the Lunar and Planetary Institute 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.

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 science teams.

In 2015, McEwen received the Whipple Award for his work on HiRISE.