Indiana University, B.S. with Honors, Geology, 1984
Harvard University, Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1989
Educational and Public Outreach Videos
2012 D. A. Kring, Executive Producer, From the Earth to the Moon, Center for Lunar Science and Exploration, USRA-Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX.
2013 J. Blackwell, D. Hurwitz, and D. A. Kring, Schrödinger Volcanic Vent and Impact Peak Ring, Center for Lunar Science and Exploration, USRA-Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX.
2015 D. A. Kring, Executive Producer, Sampling the Lunar Farside in the South Pole-Aitken’s Schrödinger Basin, Center for Lunar Science and Exploration, USRA-Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX.
Educational and Public Outreach Publications
1992 D. A. Kring, Meteorites and Their Properties, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, 32 pp. Second Edition published in 1998.
1996 D. A. Kring and A.M. Domitrovic, “Mines and Minerals in the Tucson Mountains,” Sonorensis 16(2), pp. 10–11.
1998 D. A. Kring, Meteorites and Their Properties, World Wide Web Edition.
1998 D. A. Kring, Meteorites and Their Properties, Spanish Language World Wide Web Edition.
1999 D. A. Kring, “Calamity at Meteor Crater,” Sky and Telescope 98(5), pp. 48–53.
2000 D. A. Kring and G. Consolmagno, “Meteorite Hunting,” in Cosmic Pinball, C. Sumners and C. Allen (eds.), McGraw-Hill Publishers, New York, pp. 81–98.
2000 D. A. Kring, “Rocks from the Moon and Mars,” in Cosmic Pinball, C. Sumners and C. Allen (eds.), McGraw-Hill Publishers, New York, pp. 99–118.
2000 D. A. Kring and D. D. Durda, “Doomsday Asteroids,” in Cosmic Pinball, C. Sumners and C. Allen (eds.), McGraw-Hill Publishers, New York, pp. 149–168.
2000 D. A. Kring, “The Threat of Future Impacts on Earth,” in Cosmic Pinball, C. Sumners and C. Allen (eds.), McGraw-Hill Publishers, New York, pp. 169–178.
2002 D. A. Kring, Desert Heat - Volcanic Fire: The Geologic History of the Tucson Mountains and Southern Arizona, Arizona Geological Society, 104 p.
2002 D. A. Kring, “Environmental Effects of Impact Cratering,” an educational poster published by the NASA/Univ. Arizona Space Imagery Center. Additional artwork provided by center staff and others.
2003 D. A. Kring, "Meteor Crater & An Asteroid's Impact on Floral Ecosystems," with sidebar "Megafauna & Dietary Flora," Wildflower 19(4), pp. 16–17 and 29.
2003 D. A. Kring and D. D. Durda, "The Day the World Burned," Scientific American 289(6), pp. 98–-105. Translated into French and republished as “Le Jour où la Terre Brûla,” Pour la Science no. 315 (January issue), 2004. Translated into German and republished as “Der Tag, an dem die Erde brannte,” Spektrum der Wissenschaft (February issue), 2005.
2006 T. J. Manning, G. Abadi, J. Nienov, E. Lochner, K. Riddle, D. Phillips, and D. A. Kring, “A meteor impact in the classroom? A micro and nano view of the thermite reaction,” The Chemical Educator 11, pp. 1–10.
2006 D.A. Kring, “Geological Effects of Impact Cratering,” an educational poster published by the NASA/Univ. Arizona Space Imagery Center. Additional artwork provided by Maria Schuchardt.
2006 D. A. Kring, “Unlocking the Solar System’s Past,” Astronomy 34(8), pp. 32–37. Translated into Portuguese and republished in Astronomy Brasil, 2006.
2006 D. A. Kring, “Blast from the Past,” Astronomy 34(8), pp. 46–51. Translated into Portuguese and republished in Astronomy Brasil, 2006.
2007 D. A. Kring and D. D. Durda, “The Day the World Burned,” in Critical Perspectives on Natural Disasters, Scientific American Critical Anthologies on Environment and Climate, J. L. Viegas (ed.), Rosen Pub Group, pp. 189–204. (A reprint of a 2003 publication.)
2007 D. A. Kring, Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona (aka Meteor Crater), Lunar and Planetary Institute (Contribution No. 1355), Houston, 150 pp.
2008 S. Shipp, C. Shupla, D. A. Kring, A. Treiman, W. Kiefer, and L. Woolley, “How Did the Moon Form?,” educational poster published by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI Contrib. No. 1366).
2008 S. Shipp, C. Shupla, A. Treiman, D. A. Kring, W. Kiefer, and L. Woolley, “Our Moon in a New Light,” educational poster published by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI Contrib. No. 1367).
2008 S. Shipp, D. A. Kring, A. Treiman, W. Kiefer, and L. Woolley, “To the Moon and Beyond,” educational poster published by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI Contrib. No. 1368).
2008 D. A. Kring, “Unlocking the Solar System’s Past,” in The Solar System, pp. 86–91. (Reformatted version of Kring’s 2006 Astronomy Magazine article in a Special Collector’s Edition published by the Kalmbach Publishing Co, Waukesha, Wisconsin).
2008 D. A. Kring, Meteor Crater's Impact: When a Star Fell in Canyon Country, Arizona Highways (online edition).
2009 D. A. Kring, “Chicxulub vor 65 Millionen Jahren: ein Impakt verändert die Welt,“ Lahn-Marmor-Nachrichten Nr. 19, pp. 12–18.
2012 D. A. Kring, “How meteorites unlock the solar system’s past,” in Explore the Solar System, pp. 94–99. (Reformatted version of Kring’s 2006 Astronomy Magazine article for a special Astronomy issue for the holidays.)
2012 S. Shipp, A. Shaner, J. Blackwell, and D. A. Kring, Exploring the Moon in Big Sky Country, LPI Contribution No. 1731, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, 4 p.
2013 D. A. Kring, “Do impacts explain all of Earth’s mass extinctions?,” in Astronomy’s 60 Greatest Mysteries, Sky and Telescope, Cambridge MA, pp. 10–11.
2013 D. A. Kring, “Chelyabinsk Air Burst — A Dramatic Illustration of a Near-Earth Asteroid Impact,” Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, Issue 133 (May 2013), pp. 1–5.
2014 D. A. Kring, Meteorites and Their Properties, World Wide Web Edition; reformatted HTML.
2014 D. A. Kring, Meteorites and Their Properties, Spanish Language World Wide Web Edition; reformatted HTML.
2014 D. A. Kring and M. Boslough, “Chelyabinsk: Portrait of an asteroid airburst,” Physics Today, September issue, pp. 32–37. Translated into Japanese (チェリャビンスク：小惑星空中爆発の描像) and republished in Parity [translated journal title], September 2015 issue, pp. 4–12.
2015 D. A. Kring, “How robotic probes helped humans explore the Moon – And may again,” Eos 96, doi:10.1029/2015EO024575. Published 19 February 2015. Invited feature article.
2015 D. A. Kring, “Human and robotic missions: To the Moon Again and Beyond,” Eos 96, doi:10.1029/2015EO024609. Published 20 February 2015. Invited feature article.
2015 D. A. Kring, “How Robotic Probes Helped Humans Explore the Moon….and May Again,” Eos 96, no. 5 (15 March 2015), cover and pp. 8–12.
2015 D.A. Kring, “Blast radius: How close could you be to witness Arizona’s Meteor Crater form and still live to tell the tale?,” Astronomy 43(6), p. 44.
2016 D. A. Kring, “Do impacts explain all of Earth’s mass extinctions?,” in Astronomy’s 60 Greatest Mysteries, Sky and Telescope, Cambridge MA, pp. 10-11. (A reprint of the 2013 publication.)
2016 D. A. Kring, “The Chicxulub Crater, Twenty-Five Years Later,” Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, Issue 144 (March 2016), pp. 1–8.
2018 P. Schenk and D. Kring, “The Scar on Jupiter: Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and its Impact into Jupiter 25 Years Later,” Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, Issue 152 (April 2018), pp. 2–11.
2021 D. A. Kring, “The origins of life on Earth,” Astronomy 49(1), pp. 43–45.
2021 D. A. Kring, “The Chicxulub Impact Crater: Producing a Cradle of Life in the Midst of a Global Calamity,” Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, Issue 164 (April 2021), pp. 1–10.
2022 A. Shaner and D. A. Kring, “NASA’s ExMASS Program: Inspiration in a Pre-college Research Experience,” Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, Issue 168 (April 2022), pp. 26-28.
2023 A. Shaner, S. Buxner, and D. A. Kring, “ExMASS: Implementation and evaluation of an authentic, inquiry-based research experience for secondary students,” Astronomy Education Journal, in press.
2023 D. A. Kring, “VITA – Ursula B. Marvin: Brief life of a pioneering planetary geologist (1921-2018),” Harvard Magazine 125(6) (July-August), pp. 38–39.
Science Education Blogs
2016 D. A. Kring, “Shattered Earth – Making Rock Flow,” International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 364 Chicxulub Impact Crater, posted 8 October 2016.
2019 D. A. Kring, “Using Arizona to Explore the Moon,” Arizona Geological Survey, posted 14 May 2019.
Op Ed and News Articles
An op-ed article regarding general science education
David A. Kring, The Arizona Daily Star, 1994.
A news article about the success of Kring's general science education class
Anne Minard, The Arizona Daily Star, 2004.
Success of CLSE’s high school research program featured
Editors, Science, 2013.
Featuring undergraduate research
David A. Kring, EOS, 2015.
Educational Websites
Chicxulub Impact Event
Terrestrial Impact Craters and Their Environmental Effects
Barringer (Meteor) Crater and its Environmental Effects
Tswaing (Pretoria Saltpan) and its Environmental Effects
The Lunar Cataclysm Hypothesis
Origins of Life
Impact-generated Wildfires
Impact-induced Perturbations of Atmospheric Sulfur
Meteorites and Their Properties
Meteorites and Their Properties (Spanish-edition)
Arizona Meteorites
The Moon
NASA Solar System Exploration
Featured People – David Kring
50 Years of Robotic Planetary Exploration – David Kring’s View
Additional Educational Websites with Kring’s Contributions
Lunar and Planetary Science Resources
Extinction in the Classroom (Canadian Museum of Nature)
See Also
Library exhibits developed by Kring with Christine Shupla, Andy Shaner, Keliann LaConte, and John Blackwell.
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