Kevin has published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers, co-authored 7 books and edited 3 books on aspects of deep-water sediments and global environmental issues. He managed the industry-sponsored Ainsa Project, an integrated outcrop-subsurface drilling project to understand deep-marine channels in the Spanish Pyrenees, and has sailed on four international scientific drilling expeditions (DSDP Leg 96, ODP Leg 131, IODP Expeditions 322 and 338). In 2016, he will participate as a shipboard scientist on IODP Expedition 362). In 2010, in recognition of his research, Pickering was elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.