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Kevin McKeegan

Distinguished Professor

310-825-3580
mckeegan@epss.ucla.edu
2653 Geology

PhD  Washington University, 1987

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Awards

  • Roger Chaffee Astronaut Fellow, Washington University
    1980-1983
  • Cosslett Award for Best Invited Paper, Microbeam Analysis Society
    1991
  • Asteroid 5663 named McKeegan, International Astronomical Union
    2002
  • Fellow of Meteoritical Society
    2002
  • Fellow of Geochemical Society
    2012
  • J. Lawrence Smith Medal of the US National Academy of Sciences
    2018
  • American Geophysical Union Fellow
    2010

Research Areas

  • Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
  • Planetary Science

Membership in Academies and Socieities

  • American Geophysical Union
  • Geochemical Society
  • Meteoritical Society

The Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a land grant institution, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.

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