Maggie Yandell

B.S. with honors, Chemistry, expected 2009
University of California, San Diego
 
email: myandell@ucsd.edu

 

Honors and Awards:
Dean's Undergraduate Award for Excellence, 2008
Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, 2007-2009
Member of Phi Beta Kappa Society, 2007
University of California Regents' Scholar, 2005-2009
National Merit Scholar, 2005-2009

 

Teaching Experience:
Honors General Chemistry I, II, III, 2008
General Chemistry I, III, 2007

 

Maggie joined the Prather group in the summer of 2006.  She participated in the SIO Pier field campaign in 2006 and the Los Angeles Basin Mobile Study (LABMS) I study in 2007.  She is currently analyzing data collected in Long Beach during LABMS I, observing trends in sulfate and elemental and organic carbon in fine and ultrafine particulate matter.  She is also involved in studying radical particulate matter through electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and a variety of other techniques.  She will be entering a graduate program in physical or atmospheric chemistry in the fall of 2009.