Congratulations Katie for defending her undergraduate senior thesis!

This week, Katie presented her final poster for her senior thesis titled "Characterizing Organic Matter from Biotic and Abiotic Sources via Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry". A link to her final report can be found here: https://www.geol.umd.edu/undergraduate/paper/hickey.pdf

Congrats Katie!

Congratulations Meridian for Defending her Undergraduate Senior thesis!

This week, senior undergraduate Meridian defending her thesis titled "The Influence of Salts on the Detection of Organics from Ocean Worlds via Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry". Her project explored how different salt mixtures analogous to those on Enceladus can affect the detectability of amino acids and nucleobases. Congrats Meridian!

Come see the MCLASS Lab's work at AGU!

At the AGU Fall 2024 Meeting, six current and former members of MCLASS lab will be sharing their research! Find their posters, talks, and links to abstracts below.

Current

Rick: Tuesday Enceladus Exploration via LDMS: The Promise of Spatially-Resolved Quantitative Analysis Tuesday Dec. 10th at 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Maddy: Mineralogical Identification via Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry using a Neural Network Thursday Dec. 12th at 8:30 am -12:30 pm

Luke: Characterization of Organic Matter in CM Carbonaceous Chondrites and Terrestrial Samples: Implications for Life Detection Missions Monday Dec. 9th at 1:30 - 4:30 pm

Oya: Development of ultrasmall Gas Chromatograph - Mass Spectrometer system for future lunar and planetary missions Thursday Dec. 12th at 11:00 am

Alumni

Soumya: CRATER: An Orbitrap-based Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometer for in situ Exploration of the Moon Thursday Dec. 12th at 10:40 am

Ben: PLASMA: A Miniature LA-MIP-MS for in situ Geochemical and Isotopic Analysis of Planetary Materials Tuesday Dec. 10th at 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm