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