Madeline Raith she/her

Office: PHY 2330
John S. Toll Physics Building
4150 Campus Drive
College Park, MD 20742

Mailing Address
8000 Regents Drive
College Park, MD 20742

mraith1 [at] umd [dot] edu

M-CLASS Laboratory

Ricardo Arévalo

Martian geochemistry and mineralogy, spaceflight instrumentation, astrobiology

Raith, M., Arevalo Jr., R., Hanna, A., and Thorpe, M. (2025) Mineralogical Effects on Organic Detectability via Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry. Icarus. 444 116829. DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116829

Farcy, B., Graham, J., Raith, M., Arevalo Jr., R., Taghioskoui, M., Budinoff, S., McAdam, A., Lee, J., Danell, R.M., Kaplan, D.A., Gundersen, C., McDonough, W.F. (2026) A miniature LA-MIP-MS for in situ compositional analyses of planetary surfaces. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 40 e10152. DOI: 10.1002/rcm.10152

Ray, S., Raith, M., Torrano, Z. A., Andrews, L., Arevalo Jr., R., Southard, A.E., Danell, R. M., Thirkell, L., Colin, F., Briois, C. (2026) Non-traditional stable isotope measurements using laser desorption Orbitrap mass spectrometry: Implications for planetary missions. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 522 117580. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2026.117580

Kawashima, O., Arevalo Jr., R., Andrews, L., Raith, M., Southard, A., Danell, R. (2026) Chemical Imaging with Spaceflight LDMS Instrument for Planetary Exploration. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 523 117594. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2026.117594