https://www.maggieaprilthompson.info/outreach daily 0.75 2020-07-15 https://www.maggieaprilthompson.info/outreach/2020/7/15/astronomy-on-tap-santa-cruz-1 monthly 0.5 2023-04-14 https://www.maggieaprilthompson.info/outreach/2019/9/20/supervising-student-project-summer-and-fall-2019 monthly 0.5 2022-07-26 https://www.maggieaprilthompson.info/outreach/2019/9/20/astronomy-on-tap-south-bay-1 monthly 0.5 2019-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f7ba39197aea75acf82eff/1569004409834-IXIHLCC1L8S1DU2KLY7N/IMG_6941.JPG Mentoring & Outreach - Astronomy on Tap, South Bay https://www.maggieaprilthompson.info/outreach/2017/4/26/march-for-science-washington-dc-april-22-2017 monthly 0.5 2017-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f7ba39197aea75acf82eff/1493216974740-6AE5Y6EJ9PXOOMR8ETVR/IMG_0820.jpg Mentoring & Outreach - March for Science, Washington D.C.-April 22, 2017 Group photo from the breakfast at the Carnegie Institution for Science #CarnegieMarches https://www.maggieaprilthompson.info/about daily 0.75 2026-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f7ba39197aea75acf82eff/1561228198033-29C14H37CPVFHREJZTKT/image-asset.png Research Image Credit: NASA, Svend Buhl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f7ba39197aea75acf82eff/1569016832350-5KRD80I1PMAUDS4CIYAL/IMG_5578.JPG Research Preparing carbonaceous chondrite meteorite powders for my outgassing experiments https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f7ba39197aea75acf82eff/1569016901342-36AQA6PYNYG30EGMJYG2/IMG_2206+2.JPG Research In August 2018, I had the opportunity to be a guest observer on SOFIA, NASA’s stratospheric airborne observatory, for a night! On the flight, we obtained new spectra of BD+20307! https://www.maggieaprilthompson.info/pagecv daily 0.75 2023-04-14 https://www.maggieaprilthompson.info/home daily 1.0 2026-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f7ba39197aea75acf82eff/9a890eae-db6d-4a88-9775-7940372d5018/20230220-IMG_8367.jpg Home Welcome! I am a Ph.D. planetary scientist hoping to further our understanding of rocky planets within and beyond our Solar System through experimentation and numerical models, while at the same time enhancing our appreciation of Earth and life's place in the cosmos. https://www.maggieaprilthompson.info/about-me daily 0.75 2026-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f7ba39197aea75acf82eff/708856c1-2f27-4ebd-86b2-114359021130/IMG_7732.jpg About me Standing in front of a scanning electron microscope image of a chondritic meteorite, Semarkona. Red, green and blue represents iron, magnesium and silicon, respectively. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f7ba39197aea75acf82eff/1569002759414-96WC9QHQ6UHM9YJKVGZ7/IMG_4142.JPG About me Bunny-suited up to repair a mass spectrometer in the clean room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f7ba39197aea75acf82eff/1569016649438-4Y0RA6UP442W5QWYRXQU/IMG_5754.JPG About me Rocket and I hiking in Santa Cruz CA, 2019 https://www.maggieaprilthompson.info/publications-presentations daily 0.75 2023-10-05 https://www.maggieaprilthompson.info/contact daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://www.maggieaprilthompson.info/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2026-03-20