Carol Carter Breed-McCauley ’57 ScM

Carol Carter Breed-McCauley ’57 ScM, of Flagstaff, Ariz.; June 16. She worked as an astrogeologist and geomorphologist for the U.S. Geological Survey from 1968 to 1996. She authored/coauthored more than 40 scientific publications. As an investigator for the Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR) missions of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she worked on pioneering projects using radar imaging to study desert sand seas. Funded by a Smithsonian grant, she studied wind forms in the Western Desert of Egypt. Her work with satellite imaging of Earth’s deserts contributed to new ways for scientists to interpret and map the geology of Mars using images from NASA’s Viking spacecraft. She also worked with NASA on visual observation, training astronauts for the Apollo 11, US-USSR Apollo-Soyuz, Skylab, and Space Shuttle missions. As a delegate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she participated in field trips by Western scientists to the Taklamakan Desert of western China. Her work took her many places, including India, Australia, Saudi Arabia, and Peru. She retired from the USGS in 1986 and enjoyed fly fishing, cruising on Lake Mead, and her winter home in Bonita Springs, Fla. She also enjoyed playing bridge and bocce. She is survived by five daughters, three sons-in-law, 13 grandchildren, a great-grandchild, a sister, and a brother.