Dr. Yarnall is a NASA postdoctoral scientist.
Yukiko Yarnall
(POST DOC)
Org Code: 691
NASA/GSFCMail Code: 691
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE CO
Brief Bio
Teaching Experience
2019 Adjunct professor of General Chemistry lecture for Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program (EMDP2), George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia
2015-2017 Graduate lecture Instructor of General Chemistry laboratory for Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program (EMDP2), George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia
2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant instructor of General Chemistry laboratory, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
2014 Graduate lecture instructor of Physical Chemistry laboratory, George Mason, University, Fairfax, Virginia
Education
2019 PhD Chemistry and Biochemistry George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
2016 MS Mathematics George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
2014 BS Chemistry and Biochemistry George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
2014 BS Mathematics George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Awards
2019 NASA Postdoctoral Program
2017 NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
2016 Annual Graduate Student Award, George Mason University
2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
2015 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
2014 ACS Chemical Society of Washington College Chemistry Achievement Award
Talks, Presentations and Posters
Other
Identification and quantification of Interstellar ices and salts using IR intensities
July 9, 2022
Leeward Community College, Pearl City HI, USA, Oral.
Spectrum Analysis of Interstellar and Planetary Ices & Salts
July 9, 2022
Waipahu Highschool, Waipahu HI, USA, Virtual meeting.
Experimental Study of Infrared Spectral Intensities of Amine Ices, Precursors to Amino Acid
June 17, 2022
AbSciCon 2022, i-poster and flash talk, Atlanta Georgia, USA
Experimental Study of NH4CN at Low Temperatures: IR Optial Properties and Sublimation Behavior
June 2, 2021
Astrochemistry Subdivision of the American Chemical Society
AstroCheminer: Online Seminar Series: online talk
http://astro.phys-acs.org/AstroCheminar.html
Publications
Refereed
Hudson, R. L., Y. Yarnall, and P. A. Gerakines (he/him). 2022. Benzene Vapor Pressures at Titan Temperatures: First Microbalance Results The Planetary Science Journal 3 (5): 120 [10.3847/PSJ/ac67a5]
Yarnall, Y., and R. L. Hudson. 2022. A New Method for Measuring IR Band Strengths in H2O-Ices: First Results for OCS, H2S, and SO2 The Astrophysical Journal Letters [10.3847/2041-8213/ac6b32]
Hudson, R. L., and Y. Y. Yarnall. 2022. Infrared Spectra and Intensities of Amorphous and Crystalline Allene ACS Earth and Space Chemistry [10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00339]
Hudson, R. L., Y. Yarnall, and P. A. Gerakines. 2022. Infrared Spectral Intensities of Amine Ices, Precursors to Amino Acids Astrobiology 22 (4): 452-461 [10.1089/ast.2021.0138]
Hudson, R. L., P. A. Gerakines, and Y. Yarnall. 2022. Ammonia Ices Revisited: New IR Intensities and Optical Constants for Solid NH3 The Astrophysical Journal 925 (2): 156 [10.3847/1538-4357/ac3e74]
Yarnall, Y. Y., and R. L. Hudson. 2022. Crystalline ices – Densities and comparisons for planetary and interstellar applications Icarus 373 114799 [10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114799]
Gerakines, P. A., Y. Y. Yarnall, and R. L. Hudson. 2022. Direct measurements of infrared intensities of HCN and H2O + HCN ices for laboratory and observational astrochemistry Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 509 (3): 3515-3522 [10.1093/mnras/stab2992]
Hudson, R. L., and Y. Yarnall. 2022. Infrared Spectra and Optical Constants of Astronomical Ices: IV. Benzene and Pyridine Icarus [10.1016/j.icarus.2022.114899]
Hudson, R. L., P. A. Gerakines, Y. Y. Yarnall, and R. T. Coones. 2021. Infrared spectra and optical constants of astronomical ices: III. Propane, propylene, and propyne Icarus 354 114033 [10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114033]
Hudson, R. L., Y. Y. Yarnall, and F. M. Coleman. 2020. Infrared band strengths and other properties of amorphous and crystalline dimethyl ether Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 233 118217 [10.1016/j.saa.2020.118217]
Yarnall, Y. Y., P. A. Gerakines, and R. L. Hudson. 2020. Propanal, an interstellar aldehyde - first infrared band strengths and other properties of the amorphous and crystalline forms Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 494 (4): 4606–4615 [10.1093/mnras/staa1028]
Stelmach, K. B., Y. Y. Yarnall, and P. D. Cooper. 2019. Nitrogen Sublimation as a Driver of Chemistry in Pluto-Analog Laboratory Ices: Formation of Carbon Suboxide (C3O2) and Various Salts ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 3 (8): 1640-1655 [10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00005]