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Mackenzie Day

Assistant Professor

310-825-1126
daym@epss.ucla.edu
4656 Geology

PhD  The University of Texas at Austin, 2017

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Awards

  • Howard Reynolds Prize for excellence in geology: California Institute of Technology
    2011
  • National Science Foundation Gradate Research Fellowship: National Science Foundation
    2012
  • David Bruton Jr. Graduate Fellowship Award: University of Texas at Austin, Office of the Graduate Dean
    2013
  • Vargas Endowed Presidential Scholarship: University of Texas at Austin, Office of the President
    2013
  • NASA group achievement award, Mars Science Laboratory Team: NASA Headquarters, Science Mission Directorate
    2013
  • NASA group achievement award, Mars Science Laboratory Team: NASA Headquarters, Science Mission Directorate
    2015
  • Vada and Walter Boyle Graduate Fellowship in Petroleum Geology: University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences,
    2015
  • Laura Thomson Barrow Graduate Fellowship: University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences
    2016

Research Areas

  • Geology and Tectonics
  • Planetary Science

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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