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Kevin McKeegan, Professor of Geochemistry |
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| Mailing Address: | Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 |
| Office: | Geology 2667C |
| Telephone: | (310) 825-3580 |
| Fax: | (310) 206-2779 |
| E-mail: | mckeegan@ess.ucla.edu |
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Current Research Interest |
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Astrophysical and cosmochemical problems relating to nucleosynthesis and the origin and evolution of the solar system;
isotopic anomalies in meteorites and interplanetary dust; development of in situ techniques for oxygen isotope measurements;
geochemical evidence for the origin of life;
thermochronology;
secondary ion mass spectrometry technique development; fundamental physics of secondary ion formation;
chronology of the early solar system.
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Current Research Projects |
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- Oxygen isotopic anomalies in primitive solar system materials, e.g., CAIs, CI olivine, micrometeorites, interplanetary dust
- Refinement of techniques for precise isotopic ratio and trace element abundance measurements by secondary ion mass spectrometry.
- Short-lived isotopes in meteorites
- Li-Be-B isotopes
- S-isotopes geochemistry
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Education |
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| | B.S., Physics, 1980, St. Lawrence University, Canton, N.Y
(summa cum laude)
M.A., Physics, 1982, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Ph.D., Physics, 1987, Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
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Honors and Awards |
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- Mary Reklis award for physics, 1980, St. Lawrence University
- Roger Chaffee Astronaut Fellow, Washington University
- McDonnell Fellow, Washington University
- Coslett Award, 1991 Microbeam Analysis Society
- Fellow Meteoritical Society, 2002
- Asteroid 5663 named McKeegan by International Astronomical Union, 2002
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Other Cosmochemists at UCLA |
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| | Frank Kyte
kyte@igpp.ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/faculty/kyte/ | | | Alan Rubin
aerubin@ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/researchers/rubin/ | | | Paul Warren
pwarren@ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/researchers/warren/ | | | John Wasson
jtwasson@ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/faculty/wasson/ | | | Edward Young
eyoung@ess.ucla.edu
http://www.ess.ucla.edu/faculty/young/ |
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