Edwin Dinwiddie McKee

Background

McKee, Edwin Dinwiddie was born on September 24, 1906 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Edwin Jones and Ethel (Swope) McKee.

Education

Student, United States Naval Academy, 1924-1927; AB, Cornell Univercity, 1929; postgraduate, U. Arizona, 1930-1931; postgraduate, University of California, Berkeley, 1933-1934; postgraduate, Yale University, 1939-1940; Doctor of Science (honorary), Northern Arizona U., 1957.

Career

Park naturalist, Grand Canyon National Park, 1929-1940; assistant director charge research, Museum Northern Arizona, 1941-1942, 42-53; member of faculty, U. Arizona, 1942-1953; professor geology, U. Arizona, 1950-1953; department chairman, U. Arizona, 1951-1953; chief paleotectonic map section, United States Geological Survey, Denver, 1953-1961; research geologist, United States Geological Survey, Denver, 1962-1984. Director expedition Pacific Science Board, Kapingamaringa Atoll, 1954. Research investigator in field.

Visiting professor, participant numerous symposia, 1931-1984;instructor astronaut training in stratigraphy for moon trip, 1965-1966. Member United States National Committee on Geology, 1968-1972. Visiting lecturer National Research Council of Brazil, 1970, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy Sciences, 1970.

Principal investigator desert sand seas of world Earth Resources Technology Satellite, 1972-1973. Discipline expert (deserts) science support team Skylab IV, 1973-1974. Leader expedition to Namib Desert, 1977.

Geologist Nepal Institute Ecotechnics, Kathmandu. Consultant Research Institute, U. Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1978-1979. Demonstrator dune structure investigation Society Brazileiro Geologia.

Achievements

• Edwin Dinwiddie McKee has been listed as a noteworthy Geologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Commissioner, Bow Mar, Colorado, 1962-1963. Trustee Museum Northern Arizona, 1953-1984. Board of directors S.W. Parks and Monuments Association, 1985-1984.

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science (Powell lecturer 1950), Grand Canyon Natural History Association (executive secretary 1937-1939), Tucson Natural History Association (president 1944), Arizona Geological Society (president 1952-1953), Geological Society American (councilor 1953-1955), American Commission Stratigraphic Nomenclature (chairman 1957), American Association Petroleum Geologists (distinguished lecturer 1957), Rocky Mountain Association Geologists (honorary), Society Economics Paleontologists and Mineralogists (honorary, president 1967-1968, Twenhofel award 1975), Sigma Xi (president Arizona chapter 1950).

Connections

Married Barbara Hastings, December 31, 1929. Children: William Dinwiddie, Barbara McKee Lajoie, Edwin Hastings.

Father:

Edwin Jones McKee

Mother:

Ethel (Swope) McKee

Spouse:

Barbara Hastings

child:

William Dinwiddie McKee

child:

Barbara McKee Lajoie McKee

child:

Edwin Hastings McKee