Publications
Liu, M. -C., Matsuda, N., McKeegan, K. D., Dunham, E. T., McCain, K. A. (2024) HIDALGO: A FUN object from the earliest epoch of the solar system’s history. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 386, 48-62.
Greenwood, R. C. and the Winchcombe Isotopes Team. (2024) The formation and aqueous alteration of CM2 chondrites and their relationship to CO3 chondrites: A fresh isotopic (O, Cd, Cr, Si, Te, Ti, and Zn) perspective from the Winchcombe CM2 fall. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 59, 1170-1193
Dobrică, E., McCain, K. A., Brearley, A. J. (2024) Shock features in carbonates from CM carbonaceous chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 368, 112-123
Yamaguchi, A., and the Phase 2 Kochi Curation Team. (2023) Insight into multi-step geological evolution of C-type asteroids from Ryugu particles. Nature Astronomy 7 398-405
McCain, K. A. and Matsuda, N. and the Phase 2 Kochi Curation Team. (2023) Early fluid activity on Ryugu inferred by isotopic analyses of carbonates and magnetite. Nature Astronomy 7, 309-317
Greenwood, R. C., and the Phase 2 Kochi Curation Team. (2023) Oxygen isotope evidence from Ryugu samples for early water delivery to Earth by CI chondrites. Nature Astronomy 7 29-38
Liu, M. -C., McCain, K. A., Matsuda, N., Yamaguchi, Y., and the Phase 2 Kochi Curation Team. (2022) Incorporation of 16O-rich anhydrous silicates in the protolith of highly hydrated asteroid Ryugu. Nature Astronomy 6 1172-1177
Ito, M. and the Phase 2 Kochi Curation Team. (2022) A pristine record of outer Solar System Materials from asteroid Ryugu’s returned sample. Nature Astronomy 6 1163-1171
Shollenberger, Q. R., Render, J., Jordan, M. K., McCain, K. A., Ebert, S., Bischoff, A., Kleine, T., Young, E. D. (2022) Titanium isotopic systematics of refractory inclusions: Echoes of molecular cloud heterogeneity. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 324 44-65
McCain K. A., Liu M.-C., Brearley, A.J., and McKeegan K. D. (2021) Matrix-Matched 53Mn-53Cr Ages of Dolomite and Calcite in CM and CI Chondrites. 84th Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society, LPI Contributions 2609, 6263
McCain K. A., Liu M.-C. and McKeegan K. D. (2021) An in-situ O isotopic study of aqueous alteration products in the Alais CI chondrite. Goldschmidt 2021
Q.R. Shollenberger, J. Render, M.K. Jordan, K.A. McCain, S. Ebert, A. Bischoff, T. Kleine, E.D. Young. (2021) Titanium Isotope Systematics of Refractory Inclusions: Echoes of Molecular Cloud Heterogeneity. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 2316
McCain K. A., Liu M.-C. and McKeegan K. D. (2020) Calibration of matrix-dependent biases in isotope and trace element analyses of carbonate minerals. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 38, 044005.
McCain K. A., McKeegan K. D., Liu M. C. and Brearley A. J. (2019) Measurements of Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in Allan Hills 84034 Carbonates. 82nd Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society 82, 6418.
Simon J. I., Cuzzi J. N., McCain K. A., Cato M. J., Christoffersen P. A., Fisher K. R., Srinivasan P., Tait A. W., Olson D. M. and Scargle J. D. (2018) Particle size distributions in chondritic meteorites: Evidence for pre-planetesimal histories. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 494, 69–82.
McCain K. A., McKeegan K. D., Young E. D., Brearley A. J. and Alexander C. M. O. (2018) Fluid Evolution on Carbonaceous Asteroids: Interrogating the Carbonate Record. LPI Contributions 2067, 6172.
Young E. D., Kohl I. E., Lollar B. S., Etiope G., Rumble III D., Li (李姝宁) S., Haghnegahdar M. A., Schauble E. A., McCain K. A., Foustoukos D. I., Sutclife C., Warr O., Ballentine C. J., Onstott T. C., Hosgormez H., Neubeck A., Marques J. M., Pérez-Rodríguez I., Rowe A. R., LaRowe D. E., Magnabosco C., Yeung L. Y., Ash J. L. and Bryndzia L. T. (2017) The relative abundances of resolved l2CH2D2 and 13CH3D and mechanisms controlling isotopic bond ordering in abiotic and biotic methane gases. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 203, 235–264.
McCain K. A., Young E. D. and Manning C. E. (2017) CM Carbonates Should Be Old: Insights from Parent Body Thermal Modeling. In Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. p. 2181. Available at: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017LPI….48.2181M.
Young E. D., Kohl I. E., McCain K., Isa J. and Rumble D. (2016) A Novel High-Mass Resolution Gas-Source Mass Spectrometer Facility at UCLA. LPI, 2238.
McCain K. A., Ciesla F. J., Heck P. R., Rout S. S., Pellin M., Malliakas C. and Mitchell J. F. (2015) Measurement of Thermal Properties of the Ordinary Chondrites Relevant to Planet-Forming Processes. In Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. p. 2730. Available at: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015LPI….46.2730M
Awards and Grants
McKay Award for top student oral presentation at MetSoc 2022
Wiley Award for outstanding student oral presentation at MetSoc 2021
American Federation of Mineralogical Societies Scholarship
NASA US Students Award to attend the MetSoc 2021 meeting
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF), 2018-2021
Rowland Hill Prize for Best Presentation – 22nd International Conference on Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Barringer Crater Company Travel Award to attend the MetSoc 2019 meeting
O. Richard Norton Award to attend the MetSoc 2018 meeting
Planetary Studies Foundation award to attend the MetSoc 2018 meeting
EPSS Outreach Award 2018
EPSS Extramural Funding Award 2018
University of Chicago Dean’s List, 2011-2015
National Merit Scholar 2011-2015
University of Chicago Merit Scholarship
Elks National Foundation Most Valuable Student, 2011
National AP Scholar, 2011
Illinois State Scholar (2011-2012)