Appointments and Fellowships                       

Research Assistant Professor, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI Postdoctoral Researcher and Staff Scientist, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Postdoctoral Researcher, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD Postdoctoral Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC

2025 - present 2023 - 2025 2022 - 2023 2021 - 2022 2020 - 2021 2017 - 2019

Education  

Ph.D. in Geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK                                                                 M.S. in Geology, Peace Corps Masters International, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI                                                       B.S. in Geosciences (minor in mathematics), University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

2013 - 2017 2008 - 2012 2004 - 2008

Peer-reviewed publications

Kahn, R.A., Limbacher, J.A., Junghenn Noyes, K.T., Flower, V.J.B., McKee, K. (2024). Evolving Particles in the 2022 Hunga, Tonga Volcano Eruption Plume, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, doi: 10.1029/2023JD039963.

Bishop, J.W., Haney, M.M., Fee, D., Matoza, R.S., McKee, K.F., Lyons, J.J. (2023), Back-azimuth Estimation of Air-to-Ground Coupled Infrasound from Transverse Coherence Minimization, The Seismic Record, doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0320230023.

Perttu, A., Assink, J., Van Eaton, A.R., Caudron, C., Vagasky, C., Krippner, J., McKee, K., De Angelis, S., Perttu, B., Taisne, B., Lube, G. (2023), Remote characterization of the 12 January 2020 eruption of Taal Volcano, Philippines, using seismo-acoustic, volcanic lightning, and satellite observations, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, doi: 10.1785/0120220223.

McKee, K., Roman, D. C., Waite, G. P., Fee, D. (2022), Silent Very Long Period Seismic Events (VLPs) at Stromboli Volcano, Italy, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2022GL100735.

Smith, C., Van Eaton, A.R., Schneider, D.J., Mastin, L., Matoza, R.S., McKee, K., Maher, S. (2022), Spatial analysis of globally-detected volcanic lightning from the June 2019 eruption of Raikoke volcano, Kurile Islands, Russia, Volcanica, doi: 10.30909/vol.05.02.385395.

Matoza, R.S., Fee, D., Assink, J.D., Iezzi, A.M., Green, D.N., Kim, K., Toney, L., Lecocq, T., Krishnamoorthy, S., Lalande, J.-M., Nishida, K., Gee, K.L., Haney, M.M., Ortiz, H.D., Brissaud, Q., Martire, L., Rolland, L., Vergados, P., Nippress, A., Park, J., Shani-Kadmiel, S., Witsil, A., Arrowsmith, S., Caudron, C., Watada, S., Perttu, A.B., Taisne, B., Mialle, P., Le Pichon, A., Vergoz, J., Hupe, P., Blom, P.S., Waxler, R., De Angelis, S., Snively, J.B., Ringler, A.T., Anthony, R.E., Jolly, A.D., Kilgour, G., Averbuch, G., Ripepe, M., Ichihara, M., Arciniega-Ceballos, A., Astafyeva, E., Ceranna, L., Cevuard, S., Che, I.-Y., De Negri, R., Ebeling, C.W., Evers, L.G., Franco-Marin, L.E., Gabrielson, T.B., Hafner, K., Harrison, R.G., Komjathy, A., Lacanna, G., Lyons, J., Macpherson, K.A., Marchetti, E., McKee, K.F., Mellors, R.J., Mendo-Pérez, G., Mikesell, T.D., Munaibari, E., Oyola-Merced, M., Park, I., Pilger, C., Ramos, C., Ruiz, M.C., Sabatini, R., Schwaiger, H.F., Tailpied, D., Talmadge, C., Vidot, J., Webster, J., Wilson, D.C. (2022), Atmospheric waves and global seismoacoustic observations of the January 2022 Hunga eruption, Tonga, Science, doi: 10.1126/science.abo7063.

Watson, L. M., Iezzi, A. M., Toney, L., Maher, S. P., Fee, D., McKee, K., Ortiz, H. D., Matoza, R. S., Gestrich, J. E., Bishop, J. W., Witsil, A. J. C., Anderson, J. F., Johnson, J. B. (2022), Volcano Infrasound: Progress and Future Directions, Bulletin of Volcanology, 84:44, doi: 10.1007/s00445-022-01544-w.

McKee, K., Smith,C., Reath, K., Snee, E., Maher, S., Matoza, R. S., Carn, S., Mastin, L., Anderson, K., Damby, D., Roman, D. C., Itikarai, I., Mulina, K., Saunders, S., Assink, J., de Negri Leiva, R., Perttu, A. (2021), Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Remote Volcanic Eruption Characterization Part II: Ulawun Volcano, Papua New Guinea, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 420, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107381.

McKee, K., Smith,C., Reath, K., Snee, E., Maher, S., Matoza, R. S., Carn, S., Mastin, L., Anderson, K., Damby, D., Roman, D. C., Degterev, A., Rybin, A., Chibisova, M., Assink, J., de Negri Leiva, R., Perttu, A. (2021), Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Remote Volcanic Eruption Characterization Part I: Raikoke Volcano, Kuril Islands, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 419, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107354.

Haney, M., D. Fee, K. McKee, J. J. Lyons, R. S. Matoza, A. G. Wech, G. Tepp, C. Searcy,and T. D. Mikesell (2020), Co-eruptive tremor from Bogoslof Volcano: Seismic wavefield composition at regional distances, Bulletin of Volcanology, doi: 0.1007/s00445-019-1347-0.

McKee, K., D. Fee, M. Haney, R. S. Matoza, J. J. Lyons (2018). Infrasound signal detection and back-azimuth estimation using ground-coupled airwaves on a seismo-acoustic sensor pair, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2017JB015132.

Matoza, R. S., D. Fee, D. Green, A. Le Pichon, J. Vergoz, M. M. Haney, T. D. Mikesell, L. Franco, O. A. Valderrama, M. R. Kelley, K. McKee, L. Ceranna (2018), Local, regional, and remote seismo-acoustic observations of the April 2015 VEI 4 eruption of Calbuco volcano, Chile, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi: 10.1002/2017JB015182.

McKee, K., D. Fee, A. Yokoo, R. S. Matoza, K. Kim (2017). Analysis of gas jetting and fumarole acoustics at Aso Volcano, Japan, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.03.029.

McKee, K., D. Fee, C. Rowell, and A. Yokoo (2014). Network-based evaluation of the infrasonic source location at Sakurajima Volcano, Japan, Seismological Research Letters 85 1200-1211, doi: 10.1785/0220140119.

publications in Progress

McKee, K.F., Flower, V.J.B., Kahn, R.A., Mastin, L., Van Eaton, A., Assink, J.D., Vagasky, C., Behnke, S., Limbacher, J.A., Junghenn Noyes, K.T. (in revision). 15 January 2022 Hunga, Tonga Plume Dispersion and Ash Properties from Satellite Multi-angle Imager, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.

McKee, K.F., K.E. Fauria, M. Ichihara, J. Assink, F. Maeno, J. Caplan-Auerbach, M. Louis, T. Mittal, D. Metz, A. Gupta, C. Vagasky (in revision). Eruptive flux drives atmospheric lightning rates and submarine hydroacoustic signals during the 2021 Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba eruption. Volcanica.

McKee, K.F., C. Cauley, E. Rojas-Kolomiets, Y. Li, B. Hosseini, K. Daly, A. Ward, D. Roman, P. Wieser, P. Wallace, T. Fischer, J. Power, T. Plank, G. Abers (in prep). Volatiles and deep long-period earthquake generation: a case study of the Alaska-Aleutian Arc. Bulletin of Volcanology.

awards

NASA Earth Surface & Interior (ESI)(80NSSC25K7862): ”Volcanology from Space: Combining NASA’s Earth Observing System with traditional lightning and infrasound observations to investigate active volcanism” (role: Lead PI)

Carnegie Institution for Science Postdoctoral Fellowship                                                     NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship                                                              NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) Fellowship