Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Yukiko Yarnall

(POST DOC)

 yukiko.y.yarnall@nasa.gov

 301.286.9031

Org Code: 691

NASA/GSFC
Mail Code: 691
Greenbelt, MD 20771

Employer: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE CO

Brief Bio


Dr. Yarnall is a NASA postdoctoral scientist.

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]