Meghan McCormick

Graduate Student

Department of Chemistry

Indiana University

Bloomington IN 47405

Phone: (812) 855-7905

Fax: (812) 855-0958

Meghan McCormick was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She then moved to Orlando, FL where she earned a B.S. in Forensic Science and a minor in Chemistry at the University of Central Florida (UCF). There she completed a semester of undergraduate research on the analysis of triacetone triperoxide (TATP) and tracing pre-synthesis precursors through pre-blast and post-blast samples using GC-ESI-MS/MS. After graduating, she completed an internship with the FBI in their Counterterrorism and Forensic Science Research Unit. There, she used elemental combustion isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IR-MS) to analyze samples of the explosive urea nitrate. She arrived at Indiana University the Fall of 2008 where she is currently working on coupling the flowing atmospheric-pressure afterglow (FAPA) source to an ion mobility spectrometer. She is also working on an in-depth comparison between the FAPA and other ambient mass spectrometry sources.